Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Oh my God... I just found this on the official website:
> 
> http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
> 
> How *mental* is that?? It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a 
> single take. Crazy!
> 

It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for 
long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel (not 
knocking the band, I'm sure they have a limited budget and aren't out to 
make a technically impressive video anyway).

In the realm of music videos (of which I know very little) I think that 
Ok Go's "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w is much more 
impressive in this regard (and is inspired by equally or more impressive 
previous work, such as that by Peter Fischli and David Weiss).  There's 
also several full-length movies which are essentially shot in a single 
take,  Rope (Hitchcock) and Russian Arc (Aleksandr Sokurov) both come to 
mind.  Multi-minute long takes in film actually aren't that uncommon.

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