Please Happy

Here’s more from the concert last night. I posted my acoustic vid on YouTube and Vimeo. Maybe this’ll be my big break. Maybe Apple will hire me to shoot iPhone vids on rooftops across the world!

Last night, we waited in line with a few hundred others outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. We were herded into an elevator. With an elevator attendant. She pushed the 5 button.

Jake: “What’s on the fifth floor?”

Her: “Awesomeness.”

She was so right. The doors opened on to LACMA’s West Penthouse where pieces from the “set” of the Rube Goldberg machine were on display. We saw the mousetrap flags, the spinning, water-glass-playing guitar and the original suits the band members wore when they were blasted with paint!

The rooms opened up on to a rooftop space where we listened to OK Go play a few acoustic songs (guitar, xylophone and a hand-held “chaosilator” that made distortion sounds). We watched the now-viral music video on a big screen that rotated down to play (likely also built by Syyn Lab), then headed in for a Q & A and an evening of dancing to DJ Tim Nordwind (the band member with the big glasses).

Here are some stills we shot with the iPhone (again, future career as iPhonist) set to the album version of “This Too Shall Pass.” After hearing the vid version, the album version and the live version, I think I have to go with acoustic as my top choice.

Bonus Tracks:

1. I saw Susan Sarandon in the bathroom and all I could think of to say was “Excuse Me,” as I reached for the soap.

2. Jake and I spoke with lead singer Damian Kulash on the roof. Jake asked him about smashing the TV in the vid. And, yes, that is the real sound that TVs make when they’re hit with a sledgehammer. “It’s an implode, not an explode,” he told us. They smashed a lot of TVs in that Echo Park warehouse. Some they bought for $40 each. Some they bought at the discounted rate of $15 for all the TVs one thrift shop had.

3. OK Go will play in Los Angeles on May 21 at the Henry Fonda Theater. We’re hoping to be hired as dancers for that show. Stay tuned.