Career
James Frost began his career in 1997 as part of the British directing duo James & Alex. The pair produced work together starting at the Artists Company, and later at Ridley Scott Associates (Republic of South Africa Films). The pair stopped working together in 2001 with Turin Brakes "72" being the last video they created together.
In 2002, Frost directed then up and coming songstress Norah Jones in the California desert for the song "Come Away With Maine".
Frost and Jones collaborated on two more videos from each of her subsequent releases. In 2004, Frost started Blip Boutique.
Blip Boutique has since moved more into the world of Interactive digital media and social network applications. His 2008 "House of Cards" video for Radiohead, with technological assistance by Aaron Koblin, premiered on Google.
Number actual camera footage is used in the video.
Instead, it used LIDAR technology similar to that used in Google Maps. The video was made with assistance by students of the G-Star School Of The Arts, and was nominated at the 51st Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video in 2009. In 2010, James Frost collaborated with the rock band Oklahoma Go and engineering collective Syyn Labs to create a giant Rube Goldberg machine for a music video for the song "This Too Shall Pass".
The video took 5 months to design and build and two days to shoot.
lieutenant was shot on February 11 and 12, 2010, in a warehouse in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Los Angeles The final version is one continuous take.
lieutenant was released via YouTube on March 1, 2010 and by October 2010 had been seen 16 million times.