Famous for fifteen seconds

Or just don’t let the music stop…

Conclusive proof that the web is a time-machine: a freak wormhole from the distant past — a decade ago to be precise — opened up and uploaded this particular clip on youtube.com: Ind 33.3

After you get past the first two minutes and 30 seconds of in-depth analysis and hilarious commentary you'll be rewarded with what many feared was long-lost footage of Bis with their hit single “Kandy Pop”.

But it gets even better — not only do you get to hear the wonderful lyrics, but you also get to see some wonderful graphics and animation that Karla and I worked on, including the wonderful ‘pointy-finger-dance-routine’. As far as I remember — and bear in mind this was ten years ago — the brief was “cheesy, slightly tacky, nothing too sophisticated”. I think you’ll agreed that we more than delivered on all three.

For the technically inclined among you, the graphics were created in a very early version of Director on a Mac SE/30 with an external 13in color monitor, and output to tape on what was then a hideously expensive piece of hardware.

The only thing that is even stranger than seeing your own ten-year-old animation resurfacing on the web is the fact that not once in those ten years have Pixar called us…