Pop-Up Video: "Sleepwalker"

VH1 (Original airdate: 12.19.00)

#1: This video's look was based on photographs of '60s rock stars - like Mick Jagger (b&w pictures of a young Mick Jagger are 'popped up' over the b&w cut-outs of Jakob)
#2 And Jakob'd dad (picture of Bob Dylan)
#3 Video concept: an ironic behind-the-scenes glimpse at celebrity imagery
#4: (irony)  -picture: Famine Relief Billboard
#5: irony, (n.): a deliberate contrast of apparent and intended meaning for the sake of humor
#6 10,000 Ethiopian children could be fed for a month for the cost of this video
#7: (ironic)
#8: Shot over 3 days in a L.A. warehouse--it's used to store food
#9: (ironic)
#10: It's usualy filled with fruit
#11: Fan  (flag scene--pointing to the unseen source for the 'breeze')
#12: The photographer that inspired the video appeared in the book, "My Life in the '60s."
#13: (Models)  - referring to the shot where the models are peeping thru the window
#14: (Model) - referring to Jakob wrapped in the flag with the fan blowing
#15: Jakob did a 10 page fashion spread in an Italian Magazine in 1997
#16: He agreed to do the photos as long as they wouldn't appear in the U.S.
#17: 7 models competed to be in one scene with Jakob focus on the fish
#18: The 7 fish were later thrown away
#19: Jakob has been called "aloof" in interviews - he's reluctant to discuss certain subjects
#20: Like his family (picture of Bob Dylan)
#21: Jakob's grandmother gave her first interview in 1999 and revealed a family secret
#22: The recipe to her banana chocolate chip loaf
#23: Sleepwalking is an inherited trait--passed on from family members
#24: Sleepwalkers exhibit many symptoms including clumbsy and lethargic movements (Jakob sitting in the theatre seat)
#25: A dazed expression
#26: Blank staring eyes
#27: Incoherent mumbling
#28: Fine for defacing a billboard in L.A. $1000
#29: Or a month's worth of food for 20 kids
#30: Jakob has said one of his new goals is to avoid eating too much junk food
#31: (ironic)

(End shot) Betty Zimmerman's recipe for banana chocolate chip loaf:

1 cup sugar
1 stick margarine
2 eggs
4 cups sour cream
2 bananas
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 package of chocolate chips

Combine ingredients into one bowl and add chocolate chips. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. Let cool.

(For a FULL and more detailed recipe please see: "Dinner for a Song")

From "Sexy Exposed Videos" on VH1 (Jakob):

"We wanted to make a video that wasn't taken too seriously, you know, our videos have been pretty simple. We wanted to do a video that was a little more interactive."

"I think there's elements of the song that the video represents. Like, the flag shot, a guy listening to headphones [plugged?] in to a fish, which is a very absurd '60s image. It's just poking fun of what was actually going on when these pictures and moments were happening."