Damian Kulash
Damian Kulash
Damian Joseph Kulash Jr.is the lead singer and guitarist for Los Angeles-based rock band OK Go. He is also a music video director...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth7 October 1975
dance dance-and-dancing rock songs
We have a lot of fun. We play a lot of rock songs and yes, we're going to dance for you.
band base best build community corporate dollars fan listens meet people requires running tour trying
We don't want to be the kind of band that requires a lot of massive, corporate dollars to keep us running and promoted. We're trying to build a fan base and community that listens to us and the best way to do that is to tour - we go out and we play and we play and we play and we meet the people that like us and we try to keep the whole thing organic.
backyard band basically dance director helped house involved practiced prove turns video
We basically practiced it at our house for a week. And my sister, who is a dancer, helped choreograph it for our live show, ... We taped us doing it in the backyard not to use as our own video, but because we wanted to show the dance to a video director for this other idea we had that involved choreography to prove to him we were the band to do it. It turns out the director never even got it.
people video attention
There’s no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don’t let others use it,
powerful real differences
If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.
thinking artist names
I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
self criticism vulnerable
I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.
feels platitudes globes
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.
crafts care passionate
Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.
sex book passionate
I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not f - - g up our planet.
writing thinking years
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own.
ideas unexpected stumbling
My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
play ideas trying
For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a very clear idea of what exactly I'm going to end up with. I try to leave a lot of time for flexibility and play and changing direction.
thinking ideas done
A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.