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Hi.
My name's Jake. That's me jumping off cliffs like a nut. Anyway...
In early June I received a call from Domino alerting me that video
director Michael Lucero had died in May. I had personally never
met Michael, but the crew always spoke highly of him and I held
his videos in quite high regard. He was able to make a very stylistic
yet organic video preserving the personality of the artists. Domino
told me that the crew wanted to see if I was interested in directing
the next video. I was. What happened next was a month of concepts
that came close but didn't quite hit their mark. During this time,
Tajai and Plee went to Hawaii and hooked up with Lucas Seno, a local
promoter and film production worker. As they tell it, they were
chillin in Hawai saying, "We should do a video out here." By mid-July,
I had a Hawaii concept together and Alex Tse (producer), Tajai,
and Myself were on a plane to Hawaii for the shoot. We location
scouted for 2 days covering 75% of the island by car in 1 day. I
marked all of the spots that looked cool and took polaroids for
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I chose which artists I wanted in which location and Alex designed
the production schedule accordingly. The rest of the Crew came in
2 days later and at 5 am the next day we were up, driving to the
first spot. It was four days of shooting all around the island.
There were plenty of misquito bites, sun burns, and female swoonies.
Hiero did 2 shows, one ended up in the video. Weather wasn't always
on our side, but we did have sun 80% of the time. Lucas Seno hooked
the crew up with VIP passes all over the island. What's it called
Triznathaniel...?... There were plenty late night charades and stories
to boot. The UFO siting. The shark attack. Domino gets followed.
Jay Biz the production intern. Toure the pimp. And the incredible
sleep in any position Plee. It was a lot of fun. And I believe the
video illustrates the fun times and unique personality that is what
makes Hieroglyphics who they are. Look for more photos and a few
stories behind-the-scenes of the video soon at Hieroglyphics Dot
Com. peas. jacob Hieroglyphics "You Never Knew" 3rd Eye Vision TRT
4:06 Photographed, Directed, Edited: Jacob
Rosenberg Producer: Alex Tse Post-House: Veritel Video ?Hieroglyphics
Imperium 1998
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