“Upside Down & Inside Out,” the First Music Video Filmed in Microgravity The veteran indie band OK Go teamed up with Roscosmos and S7 Airlines to make an instant classic. ⋮ The band’s latest video, released yesterday, interprets a song called “Upside Down & Inside Out” with gleeful literalness, packing the foursome into the cabin of an S7 Airlines jet that allowed them (and two of the Siberian airline’s “air hostesses,” Tatyana Martynova and Anastasia Burdina, who also happen to be trained acrobats) to dance, and eventually pop balloons filled with paint, in microgravity. As with NASA’s “vomit comet,” the flight freed passengers from the bounds of gravity for up to 27 seconds at a time. So the band worked around that limitation, carefully planning a routine that had them seated during periods of normal gravity, but floating free during the zero-g maneuvers. In a press release, director Trish Sie (who is also OK Go lead vocalist Damian Kulash’s sister, and the person who choreographed their first breakout videos a decade ago) explained: “Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of eight consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total. We paused the action, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.” ⋮
