This is a music video about the life of the common lowlands code monkey. Jonathan Coulton is a singer/songwriter who releases his songs via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. Through his “Thing A Week” podcast, Jonathan has put out a clever, creative song like this one every week for a year. Mike Spiff Booth is a Program Manager at Adobe who thought this great song really deserved a video. Before you ask, since apes, goblins, and night elf receptionists don’t tend to interact much in the wild, he couldn’t only use captured game footage to make this video. Every frame of this video was composited together by hand using images captured from the WoW Model Viewer, WoW Map Viewer, and the World of Warcraft game itself. No monkeys were harmed in the making of this film. Please visit www.spiffworld.com for more information about his videos, including info about how he makes them. The song at the end of the video is “Big Bad World One”, another great Jonathan Coulton song.
Sorta cool that loads of other people are getting a nostalgia boost off of this too. These vids were some of the first I saw on YT
What’s really funny is that the taxonomy of apes and monkeys is being heavily debated. Birds are dinosaurs and the scientific community has no problem saying that, but saying that apes aren’t monkeys follows the same taxonomy rules, so yeah, not all monkey ares apes, but all apes are monkeys. Hooray taxonomy!
Tuhmbs up if u cry evreytiem;;;((((
Nostalgia, so much nostalgia
uhhh what?
Cool ass song cool ass show
Thank you for the comment you just gave me a memory climax I can relate
I am a code monkey. My favorite language is C#.
Oh, thanks I’ve had that question for years and never posted a comment. Every time I looked up Tal i never found any answers obviously.
So why aren’t they named Code apes ?
First WoW video i ever seen :), good memories back in TBC
This song is great, but kinda sad… :/
kasma(dot)org
this was a mtv show
CodeMonkey codeMonkey = new CodeMonkey();
codeMonkey.getUp();
codeMonkey.getCoffee();
codeMonkey.goToJob()
codeMonkey.haveBoringMeeting();
i jam out to this when I program
i just looked at my account from 2007, this was in my favorites :’)
Not tal.. “TaB,” it’s a soft drink.
What the hell is tal?