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Radiohead's 'Nude' given the once over... by a ZX Spectrum

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?

comfortable

:D

Fuck...

thats boss!

Touche.

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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