Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) music video

[jarrettpeter37]

This video is popular on Burkina Faso

[fullbartender]

Freakin awesome!

[ZeroCool2unu]

Outfuckingstanding.

[alienorbiter]

I remember making a video like this for a girlfriend. It was George Michael's Praying For Time. There was no mp3 or audio compression back then, so I recorded the program on tape, and when you hit run, the tape would run again and the music would play. Ah, the days of the Atari 130 XE.

[UpToEleven11]

My C64 likes this song.

[MrSailopenbic]

6 people don't know how to use a computer



[dairydian]

Damn! I mean... damn! Awesome stuff.

[yotefwd]

Well done!!

[Chipudnik]

gotta love BASIC

[glasstronic]

Thanks for posting and helping to keep it lit.

[Elidoransgar]

I like to think that this is the official version of this excellent song.

[didogazeto]

that vid makes me :-O

not joking i really LOL'd

[spopt36]

love this video, well done

[providence066]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. Was the cursor blinking in time coincidental or adjusted to fit?

[mrada2001]

I think this might just be my favourite video on YouTube. Very well done, my friend.

[xy8015]

Agree with the rest, this is an amazing video. I'm in awe.

[SPODEMONIC]

This is one of the most wonderfully perfect music videos i've seen, thank you!

[rmckim]

one of the best home made videos I've seen, clever stuff!

[AvgasStew]

Makes me want to buy another of those great machines......

[bgfolio]

Awesome job! Thank you for that. I miss Grandaddy :(

[itsallgointoshit]

stew4rtsmith... just.. thank you! people like you make me smile.  beautiful song and beautiful video :)

[nawindsor]

There is Trying to Asian brides "busizz4me.info"

[Fun9RY]

I love you.

[ZebbandFlow]

i freakin love this... i just keep watching it over and over. it's so simple and creative.

[dial8d]

Just goes to show that s simple idea can be so so effective.

Kudos to you sir !!

[freakvan911]

that is seriously impressive, well done!

[rabidabbey]

Fantastic

[glasstronic]

2:14 melts

[glasstronic]

OK that is NMI good.

[TheMicrogram]

Great video

[devislu1]

Brilliant!!

[dubrubru]

"I try to sing it funny like Beck" <3

[MustangOliverSmith]

Brilliance.

[petvrg]

beautiful video!

[ComaBoy]

Wow!

[Stillillgal]

great great song

<3

[BlueRainDrop]

Zero cool....

[onezan]

i continually come back here, just for the chills this video gives me.

[onezan]

i continually come back here, just for the chills this video gives me.

[TheButtonNose]

I LOVE this song, awesome video

[pathduck]

Oh I love this video, one of the greatest ever!

[thanosofdeath]

by the way is 1337, not 1338. you are a disgrace to hackers.

[cameron9139]

@thanosofdeath think about it... 1337 + 1 = ?  thats how awesoem this guy is

[magnophytus]

Just fantastic

[incinerare]

fecking brilliant job.

[pdNeoGeo]

This is a great vid, Stewart. In fact this vid is what introduced me to Grandaddy a couple of years ago.

[candypusher]

sophtware slum is a great album

[nirlahav]

WOW! great clip!

very creative!

keep up with the good work, what about making clip for "Jed The Humanoid" ?

[cure58]

this is a cross between Radiohead and Neil Young!!!

[megabruco]

Wonderful!!!

[lavendermafia]

hearing this song makes me want to listen to the sophtware slump again

[Tobi4444]

who is jed?

someone tell me please

[lavendermafia]

jeds a robot that they built

[AliceHatt]

The Humanoid Robot

[Lasareath]

AWESOME!!!! 5 Stars!!!

[thomas997]

awesome

[flowerpunkchip]

obviously I've blocked you because you're an illiterate redneck racist moronic numbskull...

i pity your parents for having molded you this way.

[flowerpunkchip]

fantastic

a bit like scalextric

[Wiitendo49]

fuck rap music

[shinestarsel]

love it!

[cameljoe212]

Incredible. Fantastic! I wonder if AustinAl has seen this.

[octaveorange]

Incredible. Fantastic! I wonder if Jason has seen this.

[treguzzardo]

Wow this is amazing.

[carlodave9]

As someone who has always liked the art of music video, this is the most perfect one I've ever seen.

[Mowbee13]

Someone cared about this, he nurtured it, he loved it.

[modulemodule]

where can i donate money to this artist?

[Narrenschiff]

buy jason lytle's new albums.

[ChoclateSailor]

that heartbeat effect at 1:45 is amazing :D

[h4x0r4d]

cool man ;D

[susieheath]

sophisicated, sensitive, very artfully executed, and a perfect medium for what the music means. amAAAzing. truly wonderful.

curious: is the text "wedding ring" a deliberate mistake for the lyrics "ready ring"? very intriguing!!! thank you for making this beautiful truthful sad life-fulfilling video. i'm truly madly deeply touched. keep creating.

[AdeonC]

First open-source music ever made.

[theactordavidbath]

That's insanely amazing. Wow, my favourite music music video. Great every time.

[jmosler9]

In BASIC on an old apple. Brilliant man, just brilliant.

[Bloodklot]

Always loved Grandaddy... Always will.. This song brings tears to my eyes just from the sheer beauty

[SammySlik]

know where u can download these songs? They're not too well known so I dont find many donwloads,

[s1rrah]

Great song. Love Grandaddy. And love your vid mang. Kudos! Very 7337.

[vitraxx]

teet?

[mehellan]

One of the best songs ever written. Our band is named in honor of Jed and Grandaddy.

[cameron9139]

its beautiful man, i like your code skills too... on a vintage mac? you my friend are 1338

[stew4rtsmith]

Not a vintage Mac, but an Apple II. It's _before_ the Macintosh existed ;)

[kaloo123]

really before mac cool man

[BansheeFriend]

@stew4rtsmith Yeah! Apples Kicked Ass Macs Suck Balls.

[custer1968]

Did anyone else notice this song,Beautiful Ground , was used as background music on the Channel 4 documentary "TheFalling Man" ? The documentary was about trying to identify one of the jumpers from the twin towers from a press photograph....ironic ,a little bit sick or just coincedence?..great video and song by the way...5*'s

[eskimoechidna]

flawless

[dragonxxx53]

Amazing, very neat and well done. I just sold a WOZ edition IIGS on ebay because I need the money. Hope it went to a good home.

[Wadensten]

Love this song and the video is just beautiful!

[RoyalgrEEEn]

apt. I love it. I freaking love Grandaddy and their robot fetish. This seems like the ideal way for their primitive Jed to communicate his poem... because of course, as you know, the projects that followed him were much more advanced and improved upon an already great - although neglected - concept and set up.

Ah how I MISS Grandaddy.

[darbyHash]

Test tones and failed clones and odd parts made you

[Jonasakos]

Great song & video. I wonder if that was Jed's last poem just before crashing...

[lXlSnype]

I give you probs for that. I've always wanted to do something sort of like that but never learned to program =(. you got up to almost 4000 lines lol not bad

[tanneG]

prett y cool :°)

[nadineloginova]

this is great, how was it done?

[phateml]

They showed you the source code at the end, just type that into an old Apple II and you can recreate it at home.

[stew4rtsmith]

It's the first open-source music video. Code available on my site. If you don't have a real Apple II then I recommend the Virtual II emulator.

[Ecclesio]

Awesome video... But oh, how I wish you hadn't cut out the last line. Its my favorite.

[stew4rtsmith]

You'll find the full version on Vimeo. Yes, it includes the last line.

[Chudhole]

fantastic

[bbirdiman]

extremely creative use of trailing-edge technology

to produce a most highly imaginative rendering

which complements a first-rate song beautifully.

highest kudos...

[matthewearl]

my version thanks to grandaddy and stew

watch?v=SeD9_D7rPkQ

[xSHALLOWSHADOWx]

OMG my ears ......im joking its great

[intherein]

Great song - great video.  Basic is good. Come back grandaddy.

[JeromeLytle]

This is really cool. Good job.

[ELGROOVER]

Visually it reminds me of the OK Computer lyrics layout and aurally of The Eels. Most enjoyable ☺

[raquely]

This song and this video are fantastic!

[m1dget]

Excellent video. Extremely well done!

[maximumtang]

Incredible - in terms of concept and execution. A beautiful accompaniment to a haunting song, I applaud you.

[Braindown73]

genius.... nothing more can be said

[AliceHatt]

I like the video.

[mm44rrcc00]

outstanding video. i really love it.

[Beaster1174]

Beautifully done! I started computing on an Apple II+

[staphinfection]

This song, the other Jed song, and So You Aim Toward the Sky are my favorite Grandaddy songs of all time!!

So fucking brilliant it makes me sick.

[aUsTrIaDeLuXe]

@stew4rtsmith: WOW you made this video by yourself?amazing

[stew4rtsmith]

thanks ;)

[monsterman199]

This is one of my favorite songs now, its really deep and I love the mood the music gives, and that the vid is on a old apple is awesome

[qwertyxf]

I mean, I like the lyrics and so-on now

[qwertyxf]

WOW I REALLY SAID THIS? lol

qwertyxf (6 months ago)cool vid but ugly lyrics

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qwertyxf (6 months ago)but the music itself is godd but not the text they sing :P

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Sorry, i wasnt really good in english back then.

Now i Watched it again i like it.

no i still dont read books though lol

[qiuyuanren]

n'import quoi, je l'aime

[sciencealwayswins]

This song gives me the chills...

[RipMVP32]

Brilliant. One of the most criminally underrated bands ever.

[abrahamjoseph]

i never get tired of this work of beauty.

[Randomizer742]

;-;

Poor Jed.

[Aranica]

Now, this is how great songs like "Still Alive" are made.

[stew4rtsmith]

Yea . . . I'm a big fan of the "Still Alive" video. When my friend showed it to me he introduced it by saying "check it out, these guys totally copied you." I don't know about that exactly, but it is very similar. (I had the idea for this in 2002 and made the actual video in 2005. Portal's "Still Alive" came out two years later.)

[Aranica]

Hmm...maybe your video was Johnathan Coulton's inspiration for "Still Alive". ;)

"And remember, the Weighted Compainion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and, in fact, cannot speak."

[sisCathryn]

Well, stolen, perhaps. But always remind yourself.

Good ideas will always be stolen or copied.

"I see you. Are you still there?"

[Aranica]

Good advice, but what about bad ideas?

[BIGpimpWILL]

That was so beautiful i broke down and cried... ='(

well not really

but this is really a masterpiece...

[Filosofen88]

I've watched this video around 10 times now in several days. It's truly a masterpiece. The synchronisation to the lyrics, the filming, the programming.. everything's just awesome. I just love when the Apple does the printout of the program at the end of the video and the camera slowly zooms out while that soft emotional music is playing. It gives a sort of cold and poetic digital feeling. Hard to describe, but this is art. Highly priced ART!

[untitled999]

nice band, nice idea

[Mavi222]

love it!

[nnsense]

The text is not that bad.. really a good work, i like it! bye from italy ;)

[qwertyxf]

but the music itself is godd but not the text they sing :P

[Veritas62]

Yeah, like I'm going to go by what some kid who doesn't even read books tells me about the validity of a song's lyrics.

Stop hating on this song...it's sad and beautiful. Poor Jed.

[qwertyxf]

cool vid but ugly lyrics

[thepkhunter]

oh damn, this song is really, really bad. :(

[zaboomafoozarg]

Wow, this is awful.

[nolanrobe]

Yeah.... I'll trust your taste in music, 'Zaboomafoo' :|

[schnauzerhead]

Yeah, this is pretty damned terrible.

[tapo]

I hadn't heard of Grandaddy when I first saw this video, now I own two of their albums (The Sophtware Slump and Under the Western Freeway).

[KoroOutbreak]

Great work. It captures the sadness of the song so well, the way we personified these machines in our youth... When the camera zooms out at the end, with the endless code, it's very moving, even though it's just some old computer.

[drdirs]

thumb up

[WastelandRevolutionZ]

im in love with this video/song.

[Immortal113]

I love this.

[Pegaman]

Owns!

[LoveCraken]

What a great song.

[blessyoubiatch]

wonderful!

[asavaris]

quite moving.. well done, nice idea