Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze

Spike is a director and producer who was born in America and his first success in TV came with producing the Beastie Boys' video for the song Sabotage. Which he then continued to direct music videos, but later earned fame for directing the films Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are. In 1991 he helped found Dirt which is a magazine for extreme biking which is how I came across Spike Jonze as I buy the magazine time to time and is a sport I enjoy. He also expanded to music videos where his first music-video gig came in 1992, when he was hired to shoot video footage of skateboarding for Sonic Youth's 100%. However his breakthrough was creating the music video Sabotage by the Beastie Boys, was an inspired take-off on 1970s cop shows; the video earned four MTV Video Music Awards, including one for Jonze best director.