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The vehicle plays the music in the new video from OK Go in conjunction with Chevrolet. This took four months of preparation and four days of shooting. From their website:
So let’s not forget the true meaning of Sunday — OK Go in a super-hacked Chevy Sonic, playing 288 guitars, 55 pianos, and 1,157 homemade instruments while Damian acts as a stunt driver. (He took lessons.) It’s truly the little things that are meaningful.
This 1980 Chevrolet Citation was put through serious modifications. The 2.5L engine was moved to the back so that the front could lose a wheel, and the remainder moved to the center. So it’s basically a trike that started it’s life as a car. Or, as the owner named it, the Tritation.
Declaring war on limp fish, bone crusher, politician and other types of handshakes, Chevrolet UK commissioned a study to determine the perfect handshake. After all, there's nothing more important to closing the deal in selling cars than the handshake:
Professor Geoffrey Beattie, who worked on the project for Chevrolet, said: "The human handshake is one of the most crucial elements of impression formation and is used as a source of information for making a judgement about another person.
"The rules for men and women are the same: right hand, a complete grip and a firm squeeze (but not too strong) in a mid-point position between yourself and the other person, a cool and dry palm, approximately three shakes, with a medium level of vigour, held for no longer than two to three seconds, with eye contact kept throughout and a good natural smile with a slow offset with, of course, an appropriate accompanying verbal statement, make up the basic constituent parts for the perfect handshake."
Just so you know this is very serious business, Professor Beattie of the University of Manchester codified the perfect handshake into mathematical formula:
(e) is eye contact (1=none; 5=direct) 5; (ve) is verbal greeting (1=totally inappropriate; 5=totally appropriate) 5; (d) is Duchenne smile - smiling in eyes and mouth, plus symmetry on both sides of face, and slower offset (1=totally non-Duchenne smile (false smile); 5=totally Duchenne) 5; (cg) completeness of grip (1=very incomplete; 5=full) 5; (dr) is dryness of hand (1=damp; 5=dry) 4; (s) is strength (1= weak; 5=strong) 3; (p) is position of hand (1=back towards own body; 5=other person's bodily zone) 3; (vi) is vigour (1=too low/too high; 5=mid) 3; (t) is temperature of hands (1=too cold/too hot; 5=mid) 3; (te) is texture of hands (5=mid; 1=too rough/too smooth) 3; (c) is control (1=low; 5=high) 3; (du) is duration (1= brief; 5=long) 3.
This three and a half minute video encapsulates the five-plus-hour process of erecting an 18-foot tall, 3,700 pound lifesized replica of the Transformers Autobot Bumblebee. The maquette travels in three separate crates on a flatbet truck. It takes several forklifts, a lot of manpower, a few big wrenches and some heavy jiggling to put it together.
The video was shot by Mark Raker and edited by Jonathon Robinson this week at the Chicago Auto Show. And yes, in the interests of full disclosure, we were hired by Chevrolet to be there. But this video was not part of the deal… we just had so much incredible footage of the autobot being built we couldn’t resist turning it into a video.
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