Not only music videos, but Spike Jonze made a name for himself in the television commercial industry as well for brands like Nike, Sprite, Nissan and Coca Cola. Throughout the 90’s he kept on directing several music videos and television commercials.Īll through the era of the 1990s, Jonze kept his hands full by directing a number of music videos for many significant and prominent artists which included the Breeders, Puff Daddy, Chemical Brothers, R.E.M, and Bjork. In the video, the alternative band performed their all-time hit single in the middle of what happened to be the episode of the 1970s sitcom Happy Days. In the same year though, Jonze strengthened his repute and shone his creativity and innovation by a very interesting and attention grabbing video for the Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”. It was an inspired take off on the 1970s cop shows. His big break was a video for the Beastie Boys song “Sabotage” which won 4 MTV Video Music Awards and one of them was for the best director. Jonze has numerous music videos, commercials, feature films, short films credited to his name. Right after his graduation from high school, Jonze, who was 17 year old, moved to Los Angeles and that is where he started working as an editorial assistant at Freestylin’.Spike’s first music break came in 1992 when he was employed to shoot a video footage of skateboarding for the Sonic Youth’s “100%”. Homeboy was named as Sassy Magazine for boys which happened to be published by the same publisher and company and that was distributed in cellophane bags for young ladies. He also happened to be the editor for Grand Royal Magazine as well as the senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding. ![]() Dirt was a spin-off of the popular teen magazine aimed at the teenage male readers. Jonze was the co-founder and lead editor of the Dirt Magazine. The youth culture magazines Homeboy and Dirt was created by these three. ![]() And there was Jonze working as a photographer. He adjoined Club Homeboy, which was an international BMX Club with Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins both of them were co-editors of Freestylin’, a biker’s magazine from the mid to the late 80s. ![]() Jonze studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Speigel happened to be a distant relative of Speigel Catalogue family making Adam an heir to its catalog fortune.īy the time he was attending Walt Whitman High School, he spent quite a lot of time at the Bethesda community store and Mike Henderson, the former owner nicknamed him Spike Jonze in reference with Spike Jones. Born as Adam Spiegel, on the 22 nd of October 1969 in Rockville, Maryland this talented screenwriter, producer, director and actor grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and Gulph Mills in Pennsylvania.
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