A series of digital triggers set off several hundred events in the video for Ok Go's The One Moment, which was filmed in just four seconds.
The video for the band's new track was directed by lead singer Damian Kulash, who wanted to create a literal visual representation of the song's title.

"The song is a celebration of those moments in life when we are most alive," he said. "Humans are not equipped to understand our own temporariness; it will never stop being deeply beautiful, deeply confusing, and deeply sad that our lives and our world are so fleeting."
"For the video, we tried to represent this idea literally ? we shot it in a single moment. We constructed a moment of total chaos and confusion, and then unravelled that moment."
This moment of "total chaos" involved hundreds of small events each set off by a series of precise digital triggers in quick succession.
Each trigger was synchronised to a robotic arm, which pulled the cameras along the path of the action.

"Though the routine was planned as a single event, currently no camera control systems exist which could move fast enough to capture a movement this long and complex with a single camera, so the video you see connects seven camera movements," said Kulash.
The video beings with the actual 4.2 second-long clip, before it is slowed down to accompany the music.

The 318 events that take place throughout the video include 54 bursts of coloured salt, 23 exploding p...