OK Go Project Inspires GPS-Spun Art Around the World [VIDEO]

From mashable.com

"...In November, viral video masters OK Go teamed up with Range Rover in the Evoque Pulse of the City project, in which they set out to create a huge “OK Go” sign, written in GPS across their hometown city of L.A. They used the Range Rover Pulse of the City app [iTunes link] to do the scrawling.

The project, and ensuing video for song “Back From Kathmandu,” garnered them tons of attention, as well as a MTV OMA nomination for Most Innovative Music Video.

At the time, OK Go also asked fans to create their own GPS-etched journeys, which have been compiled and edited by into the above video. Seems a fitting vid to feature on Earth Day.

This isn’t the first time a person has created GPS-spun art. This past summer, literature lover Nick Newcomen drove 12,328 miles across 30 U.S. states to scrawl “Read Ayn Rand” via GPS data inputted into Google Earth."

Whoa! OK Go partner with Range Rover & invite you to dance & document your way through your city using Pulse of the City App

OK Go invites you to dance through your city

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Posted by Eliza Williams, 16 November 2010, 12:55    Permalink    Comments (0)

OK Go has announced a musical event taking place in Los Angeles tomorrow. Described by the band as a "big, awesome psycho-spatial geo-musical techno-sonic parade party", it forms part of a tie-in between the band and the Range Rover Evoque. And they want us all to join in...

Via the use of the Range Rover Pulse of the City iPhone app, which allows you to make an image of any journey you make around town, the OK Go LA parade will result in a giant digital sign being created over the city. As the film above explains, the band are keen that everybody around the world perform their own street parade and create their own GPS images, and then upload them (along with any videos you may make on the way) onto the helloevoque.com site from tomorrow.

"The idea is that we, OK Go, are using the world as our palette, and our GPS devices as our brush," say the band. Which sounds fun to us - let's hope the results are as exciting as that sounds. Visit helloevoque.com for more on the project.

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Looks like another participatory doc in the making!

Original post by Eliza Williams on Creative Review

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/november/ok-go-range-rover-evoque#