Unless you count super-geeky spinning laser detection systems as cameras. On the haunting “House of Cards” from last year’s In Rainbows, Thom Yorke seemed to exhort a lover to let her old life dissolve and “get swept under” with him; exploring this theme of dissolution by pointing lasers at a suburban party and using computers to reconstruct the reflected data into a surreal, pointillist 3-D image of the scene may seem a bit on the elaborate side, but remember, this is Radiohead we’re talking about. The end result is pretty interesting, although in the end it’s the flickering image of Yorke himself that seems most compelling — that shot of electrical towers collapsing is a little too reminiscent of the terrible Stephen King movie The Langoliers.
[Update: Aspiring video directors, take note. The band will partner with Google to allow fans to make “remixes” of the video footage; there is a specific YouTube page dedicated to the new versions as well as an iGoogle gadget that lets you stream the videos on your web site. Fun.]
Via the UK Guardian comes a “making-of” video that’s actually slightly more interesting than the video iteslf. Watch that after the jump.
