The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize？？

What this video is

Released in 2002 as the lead US single from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 'Do You Realize??' arrived at a moment when The Flaming Lips were transitioning from cult act to mainstream alternative crossover. The Pellington-directed US video transplanted the song's existential themes—mortality, love, cosmic wonder—into the hyper-real environment of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, fusing psychedelic surrealism with…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of early-2000s neo-psychedelia and alternative rock's mainstream crossover moment. The video demonstrates how psychedelic aesthetics—surreal costuming, symbolic staging, emotional portraiture—could be delivered within commercial MTV grammar. Pellington's kinetic intercutting…

The director

Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962, Baltimore, MD) is an American film director, writer, and producer. He began his career at MTV as a promo producer before transitioning to freelance music video direction. He earned international acclaim for Pearl Jam's…