¡°When you¡¯re employing hundreds of umbrellas that all have to go up at the same time ¡ª there¡¯s going to be problems,¡± says Damian Kulash, the lead singer of OK Go.
It¡¯s Sept. 2, and Kulash, Tim Northwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross of OK Go are sitting in a meeting room of JVC Music, talking about their new video for ¡°I Won¡¯t Let you Down,¡± which they had just been filming the day before at Longwood Station in Chiba Prefecture.
The umbrellas were props for a group of 2,328 dancers who, by opening and shutting them in a synchronized manner, produce patterns and words that become visible when seen from directly above.
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