July 15, 2008

Radiohead’s laser show

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Thom Yorke

Nobody else would do it would they? Radiohead’s new video for “House of cards” wasn’t actually filmed as such – no cameras or lights were involved.

No, Oxford’s finest used a laser to record the data of the movement taking place in front of it. Explaining it fully would take hours but the story is fascinating. So I highly-recommend the following:

The video itself (on YouTube)

The director talking about what they actually did (on YouTube)