OK Go – Upside Down And Inside Out [VIDEO]

This is so cool. OK Go’s new zero gravity video has left tech sites with dropped jaws. Via TechCrunch:



OK Go, who is famous for producing highly creative and meticulously choreographed videos, partnered with Russian airliner S7 Airlines for this gravity inspired performance. To create the video, the S7 Airlines plane flew up and down in a wave-like path. This parabolic motion created the sensation of zero gravity for the band members who were free-falling inside the plane.

During parabolic flights passengers experience periods of hypergravity (typically around 1.8 times gravity) and microgravity (close to 1 millionth the force of gravity you feel while standing on the surface of Earth). Typically, these flights will generate about 20-25 seconds of hypergravity and 25-30 seconds of weightlessness.

If you watch closely, you can point out periods during the OK Go video where the band members are experiencing hypergravity, meaning the plane was beginning to accelerate up the curve of the wave.