{"id":1156,"date":"2008-01-11T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2008-01-11T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T08:08:45","slug":"poem_for_no_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/poem_for_no_one\/","title":{"rendered":"poem for no one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across something lovely. Video for &#8220;Jed&#8217;s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)&#8221; by the now disbanded Grandaddy from their great album <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sophtware_Slump\">The Sophtware Slump<\/a> (2000). Jed is a character who weaves in and out of the album, a forlorn humanoid robot made of junk parts who eventually dies, leaving behind a few mournful poems.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qA-UqKAv1rE&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qA-UqKAv1rE&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nCreator Stewart Smith: &#8220;I programmed this entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM &#8212; a computer so old it has no hard drive, mouse up\/down arrow keys, and only types in capitals. First open-source music video, <a href=\"http:\/\/stewdio.org\/jed\/\">code available on website<\/a>. Cinematography by Jeff Bernier.&#8221; A nice detail of the story is that this was originally a fan vid but was eventually adopted as the &#8220;official&#8221; video for the song.<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"\/itinplace\">Alex Itin<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across something lovely. Video for &#8220;Jed&#8217;s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)&#8221; by the now disbanded Grandaddy from their great album The Sophtware Slump (2000). Jed is a character who weaves in and out of the album, a forlorn humanoid robot made of junk parts who eventually dies, leaving behind a few mournful poems. Creator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,92,1242,1365,1472],"tags":[2105],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-music","category-opensource","category-poetry","tag-animation-poetry-music-opensource-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}