Are you Brazilian? Do you live in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro? Consider this a spoiler alert, then. Because this is totally going to kill the surprise if you walk around a corner next week and randomly see OK Go playing on the back of a truck. Sorry for ruining it, but warning you in advance seems only right and fair if you want to catch one of these special shows. But even if you can’t make it to South America, you can still join in the fun.

You can watch Twitter and Facebook all week for exclusive videos of the guys hanging out south of the equator, but you can also participate in the project via a new microsite launched today where you can create tweet-pixelated versions of your favorite OK Go videos. The trip down south will culminate with a sure-to-be super-excellent one-song live-stream performance from the streets of Rio that will transform into the world’s first participatory tweet-pixelated video. Confused? Simply follow the instructions on the site and beam your messages and avatars in using Facebook and Twitter to watch your contributions swirl into the mix. Check out the schedule below, and stay tuned for more surprise shows we’ll announce soon, including the aforementioned live-stream event!

And, if you’re in São Paulo or Rio: please be patient. This might also be the first rock tour in history where the venue could literally get stuck in traffic instead of the audience. In the meantime, some mood music.

OK Go in Brazil – all times approximate

November 19th in São Paulo:

16:00 GALERIA DO ROCK – AV. SAO JOAO 439 CEP 01035-000

21:45 TREVO ESTACIONAMENTO – RUA AUGUSTA ALTURA DO NÚMERO 700 (ESQUINA COM RUA DONA ANTÔNIA DE QUEIRÓS), CEP 01304-001

November 20th in São Paulo:
19:00: AV. BRIGADEIRO FARIA LIMA, 3825, CEP 04538-133 (EM FRENTE AO POSTO DE GASOLINA), ITAIM BIBI

21:45: OPEN BAR, RUA HENRIQUE SCHAUMANN, 794, CEP 05413-011

November 23rd in Rio de Janeiro:
17:00: AV. VIEIRA SOUTO, ALTURA DO NUMERO 110, IPANEMA, CEP 22420-000

21:00: AV. MARACANÃ, ALTURA DO NÚMERO 766, PRAÇA VARNHAGEN, MARACANÃ, CEP 20511-060, 21H

November 24th in Rio de Janeiro:
21:00: BAIXO GÁVEA, PRAÇA SANTOS DUMONT, ALTURA DO NUMERO 108, CEP 22470-060

November 25th in Rio de Janeiro:

13:00: PRAÇA FLORIANO, ALTURA DO NÚMERO 55, CINELÂNDIA, CENTRO, CEP 20031-050

23:00: AV. MEM DE SÁ, ALTURA DO NUMERO 47, LAPA, CEP 20230-150

It’s not everyday that Tim puts out a mysterious new project. But this week, that day happened to be Monday, and the project is Human Beings, the debut EP by PYYRAMIDS, Tim’s collaboration with Drea Smith, formerly of He Say She Say.

It contains almost a half-dozen new songs by Tim and Drea — dark and dancy, with lots of messy heartbreak, and other things ideal for these long autumn nights. You can hear it in all kinds of ways. We recommend the 10-inch vinyl but, hey, you can get mp3s, too.

And videos. Oh, yes, there are videos. Use your webcam to make an interactive video for “That Ain’t Right.” Or watch the blurry, love-achy version that Ericka Clevenger directed below.

October 31st is Halloween and while we’re sure you already have plans for all kinds of costumed debauchery, sugar consumption, TPing of one-percenters, and the like, we feel you should be aware of all your options. Because Halloween is also the release date of Human Beings, the debut EP by PYYRAMIDS, led by none other than Timothy (“Tim”) Nordwind of OK Go and Drea Smith, formerly of He Say She Say. It also happens to be the first release on OK Go’s Paracadute label not by OK Go themselves, which we think is rather awesome in and of itself.

The music is strange and moody and even kind of spooky, perfect for Halloween. So go ahead and listen to the whole Human Beings EP. It’s available as delicious high-quality mp3s or 10-inch vinyl (!!). Tim and Drea are prepping for some more live shows in the Los Angeles area. Join the mailing list for updates, plus a sweet free mp3. They’d love to have you. And, hey, even if you do plan on deploying some good old-fashioned TP, you’re gonna need a soundtrack for that, right?

BANDmade Books and OK Go are teaming up to make a book. What’s it about? We can’t tell you yet. What’s in it? Your clothing!

Combining a 12th century technique called “rag paper” and more modern methods, the good folks at BANDmade will shred the living bejeesus out of your old clothing and process it into pulp using a hollander beater. They will then form individual pages one at a time with a mould and deckle. (A what and a what?)

Now all they need is your old clothing. Below are BANDmade’s quick ‘n’ easy instructions on how to go convey your old clothing to them so they can turn it into something like the above. Except filled with all kinds of OK Go goodness.

1.) Round up your old white cotton, hemp, or linen shirts, pants, bedsheets, tablecloths, and the like. We are looking for white but we understand that old white isn’t always super-white. That’s okay. Don’t worry if your shirt has a colored image on it. As long as the rest of the shirt is white we can accept it.

(1a. Notice how we didn’t ask for your socks or underwear. That was intentional.)

2.) Look at all the tags and make sure they are 100% cotton, hemp, linen, or a blend of these fibers. We cannot accept any fibers other than cotton, hemp, or linen, so if there’s no tag, please don’t send it to us. 5% lycra is not acceptable. It’s all or nothing with rag paper.

3.) Box up what you have and mail it to:

BANDmade Books
1090 Eddy Street, #104
San Francisco, CA 94109

4.) Check BANDmade’s site as well as OK Go’s Twitter and Facebook accounts to watch as your clothing is transformed.

5.) Patience, grasshopper. Handmade books take time!

As much as we’d like the Muppets Newsman to announce “This just in, OK Go drop in with the Muppets!” and then have the guys fall from the sky on top of him (like that cow did that one time), it’s probably best to just say it: OK GO MADE A VIDEO WITH THE MUPPETS!

The video comes out on August 23rd (that’s a Tuesday) and you can check out the trailer below. It’s for OK Go’s version of “The Muppet Show Theme,” which also happens to be the first track on the The Green Album, a brand new tribute to The Muppets out on August 23rd with tracks by OK Go, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Weezer, and others. NPR is streaming that in its entirety, and you can pre-order through iTunes.

Perhaps most exciting of all, though, OK Go and The Muppets will perform together live on the Tonight Show on August 31st. It’ll be like National-Be-Late-To-Work/Class-Because-You-Watched-OK-Go-on-the-Tonight-Show-on-April-28th Day but, in August instead. So make your plans now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTnoMX-QaI[/youtube]

Primetime, GO! Tune in to America’s Got Talent on Wednesday night, August 10th (9/8c) for a special live performance of “All Is Not Lost” as OK Go and Pilobolus Dance Theatre spread love on good old-fashioned network television. No HTML5 necessary to enter, courtesy of your local NBC affiliate.

Now joining the ranks of things #notlost is the new All Is Not Lost EP/video package, available for instant download today via Paracadute and iTunes. In addition to “All Is Not Lost” itself, as produced by Dave Fridmann for Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, we’ve included the live version from 180/365, two sparkling fresh remixes, and the brand new “All Is Not Lost” video itself, starring OK Go and Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Track list below, $4.99 at a computer near you.

1. All Is Not Lost (Live at S. Olaf’s, Northfield, MN 10/8/10)
2. All Is Not Lost (Of The Blue Colour of the Sky)
3. All Is Not Lost (Serious Business Remix)
4. All Is Not Lost (Keys ‘n’ Krates Remix)
5. All is Not Lost (video)

Avatars
You can make avatars for Twitter or Facebook or any other type of account. Just type out your name, and at the video’s end, click on Message Card, save the resultant .jpg, and upload to Facebook, Twitter, or any other site.

For example:

ASCII art
Since the invention of typewriters, people have used the letters on their keyboards to make cool images, known as ASCII art. If you have tremendous amounts of free time, you can do the same with the Video Dance Messenger. Simply plan your message out so that each “word” has an equal number of characters. We recommend using a text editor and then pasting back into the allisnotlo.st site.

For example, if you type in this: —o— –o0o– -00×00- 00XXX00 -00×00- –o0o– —o— you get this:

Make a basic grid out of dashes (see below) and replace with your own characters.

A really time-consuming way to send IMs
Copy from the Message Card and paste into your current conversation.

What else you got…?

By the time you read this, the nano-monkeys who run the internet will have loaded their long-boats with precious bit-cargo, cleared the tubes of stray lolcats, and flipped all necessary switches. The brand new OK Go video, “All Is Not Lost,” is now live at www.allisnotlo.st!

Presented in gloriously interactive HTML5, “All Is Not Lost” was made in close collaboration with the ever-awesome director Trish Sie, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Google Chrome Japan. It debuted this morning via the New York Times, and you’ll need the Google Chrome web browser to see it properly, which we sincerely encourage you to download.

On Sunday, the New York Times will publish an exclusive photo feature about the video’s creation in their magazine. And there’s also a 3D version available today exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS.

HTTP://WWW.ALLISNOTLO.ST

(And here’s the static version, for those not interested in rushing head first into the techy future…)