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Article: No straight lines: how video visionary Julien "Little X" Lutz creates his images.(PERSONAL PASSIONS)(Julien Lutz of Sun God Collection)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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HE DOESN'T HAVE CLEAR RECOLLECTION, BUT his mother says he's been drawing since the age of 2. It's not hard for Julien Lutz to believe, though. As long as he can remember, creating images on paper has been his passion. In fact, he drew all the way through school--not in art class--in all his classes. As early as grade school, Lutz, who is known professionally as Little X and is among the most creative video directors in music, was already designing party fliers. By high school, the Toronto-born artist was developing a talent in the mechanics of graphic design.
It was an internship in 1994 with the renowned video director Hype Williams that introduced the ...