Comments on: OK Go: This Too Shall Pass

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:34:38 +0000

Daniela left this link to the art installation, Der Lauf der Dinge (Fischli & Weiss), 1987 on Style Spion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6-Pe2SGls
About the artists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fischli_%26_David_Weiss

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:19:10 +0000

Thanks, Mike,
It brings back memories, doesn’t it? I was a big collector of marbles and loved all sorts of runs. The Brio (magnet-based) trains came too late for me, but I’ve given them away as gifts many times.

Also like the ad!

I’m not teaching any particularly mechanically inclined lower intermediate people in the next few weeks, but if I were, I’d use your recommended ad and the song and make cards with verbs and nouns from the text in the blog post – and of course include blank cards for emergent write-ins! – and have them combine and put the cards in the sequence of the video.
Thanks for visiting!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:48:01 +0000

Hi Anne,

I love the beginning with the dominoes – reminds me of domino ralley – and at 0:51 – Brio!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIO My brother and I used to have tons of the stuff, trains, tracks and paraphernalia.

This is a bit like the Honda clip – The Cog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo and also reminds me of marble run http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=marble%20run&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi