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Video by James Houston
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Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

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Ian 2 years ago

This is amazing!
Slippy Jenkins 2 years ago

All kinds of amazing.
Will H 2 years ago

thanks for posting this to your tumblr - it's incredible.
Zach Hale 2 years ago

Fantastic!
Matt Thomas 2 years ago

This made me smile.
kitschpatrol 2 years ago

brilliant
Yours Truly 2 years ago

Lovely!

You should definitely send this to the band or post it over at their social networking site...

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michal bogdanowicz 2 years ago

love it!
Jonic 2 years ago

You are surely amongst the most best humans alive. Well done you.
Jon Lawrence 2 years ago

Incredible job!
danielraffel 2 years ago

this is just insanely creative and unbelievably beautiful, great work!
John Earnest 2 years ago

Please, man- hook us up with a download for the music and/or the video- this is beautiful
Dion Almaer 2 years ago

This took me back to when I was a kid. Great stuff, and thanks for taking the time to do the crazy.
Daniel Smith 2 years ago

Insanely awesome.
Sven Ellingen 2 years ago

This is fantastic.
James Houston 2 years ago

Thanks for the comments everybody. :)
Cameron Yule 2 years ago

Fucking amazing!
Sam Rayner 2 years ago

Magnificent... You're a hero.
Martin 2 years ago

A song about big ideas on redundant hardware.

Deliciously taking the irony naively seriously... or something like that. Great stuff!
Daniel da Rocha 2 years ago

brilliant!
james sandham 2 years ago

Holy mother of f**k
that is truly amazing!

has the "radiohead commiunity" seen this?
visual-hybrid 2 years ago

mate thats fantastic.. i'd trim the opening bit as is quite long..

good work!
Will 2 years ago

2400bps isn't as fast as it once was.
t1mmyb 2 years ago

I love that song, and once the intro ended and it kicked in, I was literally staring open-mouthed at the screen.

Entirely awesome :)
mk3 2 years ago

Awesome... this is the latest thing that made me say WOOOW :)
Jurkki FFobb 2 years ago

This is one of the finest things i've seen.
matteo 2 years ago

great!! really astonishing
Jordan Brock 2 years ago

Just brilliant. Fantastic job. how long did the programming take?
Nacho el Nacho 2 years ago

Incredible... that must've take a fairly strong effort to set up. Congrats, the final result is just amazing.

Kinda miss the strings, though :)
tato 2 years ago

Sorry this video no longer exists??
Vincent van Haaff 2 years ago

i want to have your baby
flatcat 2 years ago

I will second that notion
Iko Tikashi 2 years ago

A.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y. b.r.i.l.l.i.a.n.t.
John Robinson Jr. 2 years ago

Wow... I feel really uncreative. Good job!
John Dill 2 years ago

pure sex.

can we get a link to an ogg, flac or mp3?
Geekwrench 2 years ago

This is enough to make an old geek like me cry.
Joshua R 2 years ago

this is terrific. I love it.
Matt Silas 2 years ago

did you win? Fantastic!
Quiet Color 2 years ago

This video is amazing. I want to say more about how great it is but I read the following comment and can't stop giggling....

"Really i consider radiohead the best music band since Ok Computer"
sebomoto 2 years ago

i think, he meant he likes radiohead since they've published their album "O.K. Computer"
Jay Cruz 2 years ago

Thom Yorke would be proud.
The Mount 2 years ago

in_deed hE wo(ul)d.
Jim Stroud 2 years ago

VERY, VERY NICE!!! Kudos to you sir...
Matt Yeager 2 years ago

Unbelievable. The only Radiohead remix I have ever wanted to listen to more than once. And frankly, I'm not so keen on listening to most of them once.
Aaron Smitthipong 2 years ago

absolutely awe inspiring. great job.
Casey Donahue 2 years ago

This is so brilliant.
AntiVJ 2 years ago

Genius !
Vicky k 2 years ago

GOOD
JOB
JIM!
YOU'VE CONQUERED THE INTERNET...
James Houston 2 years ago

Thanks Vicky.
See you Monday.
Roddy MacNeill 1 year ago

hiya.use urr pish
tsparks 2 years ago

Let me add my voice to the throng Bravo!
I will watch for your next creation with great anticipation.
Viperos 2 years ago

WOOOW, this is so great. And all the memories come back. Thank You for this. I hope You won.
Roy Verhaag 2 years ago

I was thinking of still doing something with the Garageband files on my computer. But after watching this, it seems kind of pointless. Brilliant and definitive.
Michael La Calameto 2 years ago

sweeet!
Joshua Neds-Fox 2 years ago

holy wow.
Michael LaPorte 2 years ago

You make me cry!
unrinoceronte 2 years ago

unbelievable!! i am still drooling!!!

" Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX " !!!!?????
HOW?!!! HOW? HOW HOWW???!!!!! not to kill the magic, but how is this possible!!???? ... i feel so dumb...
unrinoceronte 2 years ago

...genius definetely! you should be a new member of the band!
AiboPet2003 2 years ago

Oh MAN!! LOVE this, but alas no way to download this to show friends and play at HOME
Lodi 2 years ago

I'm in love with it :)
Simon Whitaker 2 years ago

Wow! Just bloody brilliant. My true loves, the ZX Spectrum and Radiohead, together at last! Nice work fella!
benfRank 2 years ago

this is outstanding.
Cyb3rBl@ck 2 years ago

I've no word to describe what i feel.
THX!
Kevin Forrest 2 years ago

Really great stuff.Incredibly creative!
Gunnar Hafdal 2 years ago

Awesome take on the song and I find the HDD Speakers to be really cool. Nice work.
j. youngblood 2 years ago

i will be the 10248935th person to say this is fucking amazing.
Hak en Haai 2 years ago

kewl!
and what I admire the most, is that you make us believe that the pictures really belong to the sounds.
;-)
Kiken Corporation (危険会社) 2 years ago

What makes you think that it is not?
Certainly there are dotmatrix synth softwares available out there, and you could effectively program each one of these to make these noises. Not sure about the hard drive arrray (never seen one) but the rest have no reason to not be "real"
Antti Auvinen 2 years ago

This is so great.
Charles Huettner 2 years ago

at first i was like "what?" then the music started comming together and i was like "woah" great job. this is an excelent video and song.
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 2 years ago

This is beautiful
cknight 2 years ago

that was cool
Jon Bell 2 years ago

Brilliant work. I'd love to see or read a bit on how you created this piece.
JP Hastings-Spital 2 years ago

Kick ass!
robert 2 years ago

you know, I think that those machines did get there.
beckel 2 years ago

Perfect from conception to execution. I am now speechless.
M2 2 years ago

Bad Ass!
Bonnie*B 2 years ago

Love.
This is brilliant ;-)
Chrissie 2 years ago

Great work! Love it! Love it! Love it!
Ariel van Meow 2 years ago

Brilliant! That'll show that smug Thom.
AnnieR 1 year ago

Thom Yorke is not smug. That was only a challenge and the result is amazing.
Don't be in bad faith!
Adam Douglas 2 years ago

The Band posted this on deadairspace, this is amazing man, love it!
Framecut 2 years ago

It packs an emotional punch. Can't explain it.
8 months ago

mhhmm this is something else...
The vocals... just wow...
Brandon 2 years ago

Awesome!
michelle b. 2 years ago

That was brilliant!
Bracken James Batson 2 years ago

Please share your production tools...did you also use an older camera?

Please explain more about the process and the tech you applied...how did the hard drive speakers work? Why was the tape hooked up to the tv and other gear...were they actually synced some how? How? Very very cool stuff and thanks for sharing!
Jack Hynes 2 years ago

Yeah I was wondering as well how you got such great colours and film quality?
Jared Foster 2 years ago

The composition is genius. Very creative. Nice work.
urk 2 years ago

really cool!!!
Kris Steward 2 years ago

you're a treasure!
Michael P. Steeves 2 years ago

Frickin' Fantastic.
I would love to see the making of this video... video...
Chris Kohler 2 years ago

Fantastic. You make us geeks proud.
etoothy 2 years ago

You sir have a fantastic creativity!
hombreman 2 years ago

wwhoooooooaaaaaaaaaa
micmars 2 years ago

that was pretty impressive. i hated roughly the first 20 seconds but then it was great once it got into the melody.
James Kanka 2 years ago

Great Job, both incredibly unique and well executed.

Can I be your friend? :)
Lars Gonad von Struenzen 2 years ago

please more details...!!!
Jimboweinus 2 years ago

James that is incredible. That dot matrix drum sample never got tired, hats off to you mate!
AndreasF 2 years ago

great