Background
Gjertsen was born in Larvik, Norway.
Gjertsen was born in Larvik, Norway.
He studied animation at Kent Institute of Art & Design in England, and at Volda University College in Norway.
He is best known for his short pieces "Hyperactive" and "Amateur", big hits in the early years of, which strung together short clips of video to create a unique form of video akin to stop-motion animation. His "Hyperactive" video has over 8 million views and his "Amateur" video has over 14.4 million views. His time at Kent Institute ended with his teachers failing to appreciate his work, specifically Hyperactive.
Lasse originally submitted Hyperactive to after seeing a copy uploaded by another user with poor sound quality.
Over the next six months Lasse uploaded 16 more videos, many created during his animation course. As of May 12, 2007 he has the 31st most subscribed channel, and four videos have been featured on the front page, Hyperactive, What The Fuck?, Amateur, and Sogno ad Occhi Aperti.
While Hyperactive has been the most popular, Amateur was featured in an article in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Another video by Gjertsen has also been featured on.
"Hva faen, Speil?" in which he is looking into a mirror while some of the effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms become apparent through video and audio editing.
Lasse Gjertsen"s video Hyperactive was nominated in the category Most Creative video in "s 2006 Video Awards. Hyperactive was copied by Cartoon Network in an advert for the show Foster"s Home for Imaginary Friends. Lasse initially considered legal action but after talking to a lawyer decided it would be too arduous.
lieutenant was also spoofed in an advertisement for the 3rd season of the Forex television show lieutenant"s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Whether this was done with or without Gjertsen"s permission is unclear. Lasse Gjertsen is also the creator of the soundtrack of the Chaplin Snakker videos on Chaplin Snakker is one of his electronic songs, in which the freedomand awe-inspiring speech of Charlie Chaplin from his movie The Great Dictator (1940) is elevated by the use of music
The success has resulted in offers from international companies like Chevrolet and Music Television. However, Gjertsen publicly denounces the concept of advertising, considering it below prostitution, and has refused all such offers. In addition to his video work, Lasse has a self-produced album of electronica music
In 2007 Lasse worked on a two-part music video collaboration, named Sogno ad Occhi Aperti, with the Italian Cellist Giovanni Sollima.
This was presented at the 8th International Fringe Film Festival in Marzamemi, Italy. In the same year he directed the music video for the Swedish rapper Timbuktu"s song "Get Fizzy". Lasse has stated he uses the following software in the creation of his videos: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Debugmode WinMorph Florida Studio 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010.