Here is a celebrity lip-dub video to end all celebrity lip-dub videos. Or, at least we can hope so.
In addition to pop stars like Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, and Carly Rae Jepsen, we also get (listed in order of randomness): Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (in drag), George Takei, Kiss, Joan Rivers, and many more.
Jodeb is Jonathan Desbiens, a director and artist who has rocketed to the top of many music video shortlists thanks to a distinctive style that's proven to be a perfect match for EDM. It's a style that's based upon finding the harmony between two opposing forces — the exotic on-location shoots vs the weeks of VFX and animation — creating worlds grounded neither entirely in fantasy, nor reality.
And there are similarly perfect contradictions that define Jodeb — the world traveler who lives in a tiny town an hour outside Montreal, the EDM maestro with the trippy images who has never even smoked so much as a cigarette, the refined VFX wiz who is completely self-taught, and the list goes on.
We had the opportunity to chat recently and Jodeb was way more open that you might expect from somebody who prefers to be seen in a mask for his official photo.
What starts as simple mixed-up effects gets increasingly insane and complicated. Which, if you're familiar with the video artist Cyriak, is always to be expected.
A smashing good time of a video, filled with various set-ups and visual touches — I dig the punky scratch outs — that make for a stylized, yet street, stateside introduction to UK rapper Itch, who is joined here by Taking Back Sunday singer Adam Lazzara.
