Grandaddy Jeds Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)

Jed’s Other Poem is the official music video for Grandaddy’s song of the same name. This song serves as a eulogy for Jeddy-3, a humanoid robot built from spare parts. He is a recurring character on Grandaddy’s record “The Sophtware Slump.“ According to Grandaddy before Jed’s system crashed he wrote poems. Poems for no one. Programmed entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][ with 48K of RAM, a computer so old it has no hard drive or mouse and only types in capitals. The Jed source code is available for download making it the first open-source music video. Cinematography by Jeff Bernier.