Official music video for Grandaddy’s song “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground).” Jeddy-3, a humanoid robot built from spare parts, is a recurring character in Grandaddy’s 2000 album ” The Sophtware Slump. ” According to Grandaddy, before Jed’s system crashed he wrote poems. Poems for no one.
This was programmed entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM — a computer so old it has no hard drive, mouse up/down arrow keys, and only types in capitals. First open-source music video, code available on website. Cinematography by Jeff Bernier.