Jason Sievers is a Boise based artist who makes amazing music videos. The stuff he does is really difficult and time consuming, and he somehow manages to make awe-inspiring visuals that beautifully support the music without distracting you or taking away from the song. His rhythmic use of stop-motion makes the surreal organic, which should be an oxymoron, but in this case, it’s not.

Jason’s videos seamlessly compliment the music like coffee and cigarettes, fried steak and gravy, or what I imagine Jack and Coke was like back in the olden days when they called it Coke for a reason.

For the most part, multimedia art can be a double-edged sword that I’d generally rather stab in my eye socket than watch. Whenever I walk into a museum and see TV monitors set up, I say to myself, “Oh great, more video of starving African babies shot with a red filter, flash cut together with pictures of fat, American kids, set to carnival noises. Well, that should fix things,” but I would gladly walk around juggling a little paper plate full of cheese cubes and a plastic cup with two ounces of wine in it while dodging douchebags mindlessly regurgitating words they learned in college, just to see Jason’s work set up in an exhibit he designed. However, I have a feeling his exhibit would be much cooler than that and not attract the type of people that piss me off.

I’ve watched this video for Boy Eats Drum Machine’s Hoop +Wire about a dozen times today already, and now I can’t get the song out of my head, in a good way.

Jason made this one for The Lights using clip art and old rubdown letters. Seriously.

Wake was the first video from Jason I saw that got me into his stuff and Finn Riggins. You can see more of Jason’s work here, and here are links for Boy Eats Drum Machine, The Lights, and Finn Riggins.