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chuck eklectric

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About Me

Chuck Eklectric is a director, 2D & 3D artist and musician based in Ghent, Belgium. lately, i've luckily been involved in projects that were very different ranging from art toy models (toykyo), to compositing (Postman), directing music videos (omni) to character animation (walking the dog). and i'm eager for more!Hello to you all over the world! this is the experimental music video we did (sept. 2004) for Jaga Jazzist's "Oslo Skyline" (ninja tune/2005). Made with together with François Roisin, Raphaël Martinez-Bachel (a.k.a. AZEL) and Jules Janaud, creators of the award-winning "90°" animated short..."425" height="350"the music video I made last year for young L.A. rapper Omni and DJ Grazzhoppa (also known for his 12 piece DJ BigBand). their album, "Ninja Art", also features the likes of Motion Man, Blade, Mellow-P, and more...(check out www.myspace.com/ninjaart)the tune on this video is a remix from Pop Dirty and myself.crappy encoding issues in the beginning couldn't be fixed...This is my graduation film from 2005 at supinfocom in france. Made it with Thomas Van Maele and Olivier Colchen. Official selection for Annecy 2006, London International Animation Festival and others.come back for more!opinions are good.chuck

My Interests

Music videos, Film, animation, 3D, mixed media, motion graphics, graphic design, music composing

I'd like to meet:

you. and you. and you.

Music:

Amon Tobin, Squarepusher, Nine Inch Nails, Dimlite, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, The Police, Pink Floyd, Kyuss, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Prince, Soapstarter, Jacques Brel, Beck, The Herbaliser, DJ Vadim, Jaga Jazzist, Bonobo, Madlib, Jay-dilla, Flying Lotus, De la Soul, Prefuse 73, Rabih Abou Khalil, Amina Alaoui, M, Paco de Lucia, Bill Withers, The Meters, Gil Scott Heron, Weather Report, Parliament, Bootsy Collins, Marvin Gaye, Booker T. and the MG's, Otis Redding, Herbie Hancock, Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, King Curtis, Aphex twin, Luke Vibert (+alter egos), Daft Punk, Chemical Bros, Photek, Grieg, Prokofiev, Roots Manuva, TTC, Björk, Air, Jazzanova, David Holmes, Serge Gainsbourg, Busta Rhymes, J5, Pharcyde, Beastie Boys, Gorillaz, to give you an idea, but jazz-funk-electronic-whatever's really what I'm into

Movies:

One flew over a Cuckoo's Nest, stay, Rebecca, Rear Window, 12 Angry Men, City of God, The Qatsi Trilogy, M, Fahrenheit 451, Garde a Vue, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Being John Malkovitch, The Iron Giant, Round Midnight, L.A. Confidential, Goodfellas, Memento, Fargo, Blade Runner, TRON, Akira, pi, Pleasantville, 12 Monkeys, Anything Monty Python, Summer of Sam, ...

Television:

music video directors: Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Pleix , H5, Jonze, Gondry and Cunningham, the Bif Pictures trio ;)...

Books:

"In the name of identity" (Amin Maalouf) "propos sur le bonheur" (Alain)

Heroes:

Banksy, Ron Mueck, Paul Desmond, Pierre Desproges, and everyday people...

My Blog

Discovered it after everyone else...NIN

Hey, my first blog! (retard)-Hello everyone,I just (re)discovered Nine Inch Nails, after pretty much everybody.I knew of Trent Reznor from a couple of his hits and music videos, but what I saw on Pukk...
Posted by chuck eklectric on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:14:00 PST