Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) music video
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Uploaded by stew4rtsmith on Apr 30, 2007
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Jed's Other Poem is a music video for Grandaddy's song of the same name. This music video was created by programming simple text animations on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ computer; a computer so old that it is only equipped with 48K of RAM (far less than your mobile phone), contains no hard drive or mouse, and only types in majuscules. Music by Grandaddy. Video concept and execution by Stewart Smith. Cinematography by Jeff Bernier. Released in September 2005—well before Portal's Still Alive music video finale.
The "prepared Apple computer" used to make the video was included in the Art Directors Club 2009 Young Guns exhibition with the Jed software running on loop from the original floppy disk.
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This video is popular on Burkina Faso
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Freakin awesome!
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Outfuckingstanding.
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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.
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My C64 likes this song.
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6 people don't know how to use a computer
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Damn! I mean... damn! Awesome stuff.
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Well done!!
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gotta love BASIC
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Thanks for posting and helping to keep it lit.
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As someone who has always liked the art of music video, this is the most perfect one I've ever seen.
carlodave9 2 years ago 31
hearing this song makes me want to listen to the sophtware slump again
lavendermafia 1 year ago 4