Radiohead's 'Nude' given the once over... by a ZX Spectrum
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Radiohead's invitation to have fans remix their latest single 'Nude' has resulted in a Glasgow School of Art student becoming something of a YouTube sensation.
James Houston has re-worked the track, taking inspiration from its 'alternative title' 'Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)' (also related to the song's lyrics), and produced a four-minute film where the song is performed using a dot matrix printer, a ZX Spectrum, a few hard drives and a scanner.
Houston, 21 years old and hailing from North Lanarkshire, is reportedly picking over a number of job offers after his video reached not only a wide audience, but also Radiohead themselves. Says the man: "I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit." Taking the piss all the way to a DiS news article, mate.
Video: James Houston's 'Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)'
The piece in on show at the Glasgow School of Art's visual communications department until June 21.
DiScuss: Is this guy the new Crystal Castles or what? No, no. Probably not.
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>> Radiohead's 'Nude' on computer parts <<
Redundant bits of computer hardware made to belt out a slightly obscure Radiohead track. Really cleverly done, the attention to detail is phenomenal. Mind you, it could lose a bit of the ZX Spectrum loading sequence at the start.
http://www.vimeo.com/1109226?pg=embed&sec=1109226
Yeah
It's amazing
I was at the degree show last week and this was one of the stand outs for me.
Lets hope he can go on and do some great things.
I think I have met this guy.
Let me do some digging...
Clever bastard
Well done.
is the show just the video
or is it the machines playing live?
That man is a genius
...I'm still in awe.
I haven't been on b3ta /talk
for a long, long time.
hahah
that was ace.
he had 2 videos going with images and music.....
i was tad stoned at the time so was doubly impressed.
Tell me DiS writers,
How does it feel to be so incredibly behind the times?
Fuck...
thats boss!
That's amazing
What job offers would he get from it though?
im going to that there place
and doing the same course fo' sure :)
good times lay ahead :)
Welcome to 2 weeks ago
cheeses!
advertising i guess
see some of his other work, he's done a really cool concept for mtv:
http://1o3o.tumblr.com/
(second one down)
If it's a race
this was mentioned at doubledotdash.org on the 9th of june. Beat that!

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