Don’t Get Any Big Ideas

This is either absolutely brilliant, or absolutely insane. Either way it’s great. It’s a video and remix of Radiohead’s Nude featuring some nice shots of vintage machines and seemingly composed mostly of sounds from those machines. Update: here’s a Vimeo link to the video.

Update #2: Radiohead posted about the video on their blog today. Congrats James! (thanks joe for the link)

Video by James Houston. Via Jesse Woodward

17 Comments

  1. Wow! I made this!!! I visit ISO-50 daily, and it’s really surreal seeing it on here!! I feel kinda nervous, and excited at the same time.

    Also, it’s composed entirely by sounds of those machines, although the Hard Drives are just speakers – so I guess that might be cheating a bit.

  2. joe says:

    i vote for brilliant. – now i’m off to go research hard drive speakers.

  3. Hugo says:

    Its brilliant as always when it comes to Radiohead, I wanna see them play it live 😀

  4. it’s great live hugo!

    but what the frig are hard drive speakers? i’m perplexed…

  5. Jesse says:

    Nice!

    Glad to see it got posted! I caught this online this morning and sent it to Scott before I left for work.

    Nice work man.

  6. Jesse says:

    Oh god you posted my site…

    I really need to take that down… I’m coding a new one at the moment.

  7. Alex Bickel says:

    i think that is really beautiful. good work james.

  8. Forrest says:

    Conclusion: Brilliant.

  9. Don’t really know why but this video made me cry a bit 🙂 Really surreal, nostalgic and poetic at the same time…

  10. ed@dupe says:

    Insanely brilliant, I’d say. It’s got shit-loads of rhythm!

    Awesome Friday viewing

  11. Marc says:

    This is by far the best thing I have seen this year. Completely blown away by it.

  12. Jakub says:

    Insanely brilliant by a long shot and really inspiring to see someone to put the time and effort into something as technical and imaginative.

    10/10 🙂

  13. Kirk Mitchell says:

    James, do you have a .mp3 of that kicking around? I’d very much like to get hold of one.

  14. Scott says:

    yeah, I am definitely voting for brilliant….. Insanely brilliant sounds about right Jakub. The more I watch this the better it gets, I am somehow getting a Tim & Eric vibe from parts of this, I love the still frames of the product labels and the “Hard Drive Speakers” tape tag.

  15. joe says:

    check out radiohead’s blog! This got Johnny and Colin Greenwood’s attention.

    http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?c=377

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