I am in the meat and potatoes of the final leg of this Masters of Arts adventure - in the midst of research for my final project. Of course, all along a major theme brewing in the back of my mind has been play. Play connotes freedom, exploration, non-agenda-ized experience, fun, innovation, improvisation. It also connotes space, boundaries, in-between, interstitial. You think of the play of the golf club as it swings through space before it hits the ball. Play in something that is loose and you can move back and forth between boundaries. It is a place between, bounded but free.I came across a great youtube video about the play and collaboration behind the Ok Go video for Needing/Getting. I am a big fan of the genius of Ok Go. The video for Needing/Getting is amazing -
here it is as an extended version of the one that showed up as a Superbowl commercial:
But this is also really interesting - a video talking a little bit how they came up with this. They teamed up with a motely crew of assorted skill sets and played together, just trying things out and exploring, until they were able to collaborate on something that was fun, amazing and yet very carefully conceived.
This video describes the process of play:
