Thus far we have seen OK Go dance on treadmills, sing with dogs, perform with a camouflage marching band, and execute a song with a massive Rube Goldberg device. However, last night’s Super Bowl ad may have topped them all for complexity, when the band used a specially modified Chevy Sonic to perform their song “Needing/Getting.” It involves actuated mechanical arms, air-fed melodicas, a thousand wrecked instruments, and some pretty impressive stunt driving on the part of frontman Damian Kulash. Trust me, you need to see this.

Even if you don’t care for the musical stylings of Ok Go (and if you don’t, I suspect you’re not even human), you have to admire their sheer earnestness and their interest in attaching themselves to cool projects. The group recently appeared on Sesame Street, explaining the finer points of color theory — namely, how primary colors — work with some great stop motion animation and a catchy pop number to boot. I’ll be humming about how you can make orange from red and yellow for the rest of the day. See the video, after the break.

Once upon a time, I went to an OK Go concert. I was a fan, so I knew to expect something fun. Not only did they perform multiple choreographed dances, but they performed Les Mis during a short segment when a guitar string broke and they were waiting for one of the band members to fix it. After the show, I asked the singer, Damian Kulash, for a sweaty hug, thinking it’d be a fun story to tell later. Damian felt a sweaty hug from only one member of OK Go would be insufficient, so he called the rest of the band members over (who were all engaged in other conversations spread around the club) and recruited them to sign my ticket stub and give me a sweaty hug from the entire band. It was simultaneously awesome and disgusting, and I was dripping wet with other people’s sweat for the entire ride home after I left the club.

So, when OK Go makes a special hotline available that anyone can call to wish Damian Kulash a happy birthday, you should probably take advantage of that if you’re a fan of the band, because Damian would probably do something fun for you if he could. The number for the hotline is 773-669-6546, and OK Go encourages you to call or text and leave a musical message or just say hi. The tweet also says the band will post some good birthday wishes, so hey, it could be a fun way to get on their radar.

When they’re not shutting down Delicious, Yahoo is apparently being awesome and installing large movie-poster-sized touchscreens at twenty bus stops in San Francisco, on which people waiting for the bus can choose from and play a variety of video games, which include online multiplayer with people playing in other bus stops. The “Bus Stop Derby,” as Yahoo calls it, will pit pre-bus passengers from twenty different neighborhoods against each other, through trivia, puzzle and other genres of games, and the neighborhood that has the most points when the competition is over will receive a free block party featuring OK Go.

We already know that Lady Gaga has a certain affection for the Muppets. Any performer who could actually get Kermit the Frog to drop her off at the VMAs must have some pull with our felted friends (Especially when you consider that it is Muppet company policy to only have one performer per character. Kermit only goes where Steve Whitmire goes). And so if Production Weekly, Hollywood trade magazine, tweets that Eric Stonestreet, John Krasinski and Ed Helms are cast as members of “Lady Gaga’s entourage,” we say: Well, that sounds pretty likely.

The new movie, titled simply The Muppets, began filming two weeks ago, according to writer and star Jason Segel, so it’s very likely that any cameo actors who are appearing in the movie are already sure things. Who are the others that Production Weekly mentioned?

When OK Go releases a new video, it’ll assuredly be something wacky and impressive. Though their video for “This Too Shall Pass” recently set the bar with a ridiculously complicated Rube Goldberg machine, their new video for “Last Leaf” goes the artsy route and matches the soothing melody with a very pretty animated video. On toast.

Ok Go have revealed the official video for White Knuckles, a song from their most recent album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.  Other tracks from that album include This Too Shall Pass (for which there are two videos, actually),  and End Love, so it’s going up against some intense competition.

How does it fare?  It’s not the best, in our opinion, but only when you compare it to the other videos that Ok Go has done, which are fairly special as these things go. Check it out below.

Apparently, when OK Go were accepting their Webby, they had a little, uh… confrontation.

I guess it was inevitable. There’s another band that puts videos on the internet, and some of them videos have been pretty popular, even it was a cover. They’ve also been on the scene since, like, 1975.

And their drummer is a… well. You know.

OK Go may have topped even the Rube Goldbergian orderly chaos of “This Too Shall Pass“ with their latest video, “End Love,” which does some trippy, trippy things with time expansion and compression.

Artist Jeff Lieberman, who collaborated with Eric Gunther to direct the video, explains “End Love”‘s time compression, fastest:slowest ratio of 5.5 million, and their adoption of cutting-edge anserine technology:

“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”

“We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she’s a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos.”

Video below:

OK Go! is a Chicago-area band of talented hipsters, known as much for their impossibly imaginative and perfectly executed music videos as they are for their infectious indie pop musical stylings. While cool dudes (and devotees of PRI’s This American Life) have cherished this group since the late 90′s, they are perhaps best known for their “treadmill video” as well as a slew of other great videos. Somehow, they’ve outdone themselves, with a Rube Goldberg-esque version of “This Too Shall Pass.” Do not deny yourself 3 and half minutes of joy and watch the video.