That the new Coldplay video is watchable all the way through (for the first time since "Yellow", or that one with the lasers?) has everything to do with British director Dougal Wilson, a former advertising creative who studied astrophysics at University.

Four and a half minutes of whimsical puppet magic can easily provoke hardcore vomiting in the wrong hands, but Wilson totally sells it, and therefore Coldplay.

In other words, it's a miracle...



In honour of the lanky brainiac, here are a few of Wilson's other magic moments...