Brothers Greg and Colin Strause (known as Brothers Strause) are a directing duo and special effects artists who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. They began experimenting with visual effects in their early teens. In 1995, they moved to Los Angeles and started working on the special effects for The X-Files. From there they moved on to big-budget hits such as The Nutty Professor, Volcano, and the iceberg sequence of the Academy Award-winning Titanic. They then broke into the music video and commercial arena, handling the special effects for artists such as U2, Britney Spears, Tool, and Aerosmith as well as spots for Nike, Jeep, and Pepsi. In 2000, Colin won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' video, "Californication." This led the brothers to start directing under the moniker "The Brothers Strause," and their Linkin Park clip "Crawling" was nominated for Best Direction and Best Rock Video at the 2001 VMA's. Other artists they have directed for include A Perfect Circle, Nickelback, Disturbed, and Staind. Their music video for A Perfect Circle's "Passive" marked their second collaboration with the band. The video was shot almost entirely with thermal cameras and featured on the Constantine soundtrack and DVD. Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... The X-Files was a popular American television series created by Chris Carter. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Volcano DVD cover Volcano is an action drama of 1997. ... An iceberg (a partial loan translation, possibly to Dutch ijsberg, cognate to German Eisberg) is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... Titanic is an Academy Award winning 1997 dramatic film released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. ... U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer and actress. ... Tool is an American rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbour, singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul dAmour when nobody else would show up. ... Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band. ... Nike, Inc. ... Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of DaimlerChrysler. ... The current Pepsi logo Pepsi or Pepsi-Cola, is a carbonated cola soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo, and the principal rival of Coca-Cola. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a California-based band from Los Angeles birthed from the Funk-Rock movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Linkin Park is a nu metal/rapcore band from Los Angeles, California, currently signed to Warner Brothers Records. ... A Perfect Circle is an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... Nickelback is a post-grunge rock band founded in western Canada in 1995. ... Lead singer, David Draiman singing at a concert in New Jersey. ... Stainds 2001 record Break the Cycle Staind is a four-piece hard rock/post-grunge/nu-metal group from Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. // Band members Aaron Lewis - Vocals/Guitar Mike Mushok - Guitar Johnny Old School April - Bass and Background Vocals Jon Wysocki - Drums History Together, throughout the course of their... Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false color) A thermographic camera, sometimes called a FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed), or an infrared camera less specifically, is a device that forms an image using infrared radiation, similar to a common camera that forms an image using visible... Constantine is a 2005 film based on the Hellblazer comic book, and was released on February 8, 2005 in Hong Kong, and on February 18, 2005 in the U.S. and Canada. ...

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In 2004, they collaborated with artist Christian Jankowski on a short film titled 16mm Mystery. The film was a gritty and surrealistic piece exploring the power of motion picture imagery. Watch 16mm Mystery here

The Brothers Strause are signed with Tight Films for their commercial and music video work.

Recently, they've directed the music video for Flyleaf's I'm So Sick and a new campaign for Coca-Cola China.

Commercials

• Gatorade "Winning Formula".
• Fresca "Dance".
• Ford F150 "Kiln".
• United States Marine Corps "Diamond".
• PlayStation 2's God of War "Gods" and "Monsters".
• Coca-Cola/World of WarCraft "WOW Be Yourself".
• Toyota Matrix "Sunglasses".
• Toyota Corolla "Imagination".
• Universal Studios "Creep" and "Scare".
• Norfolk Southern "Trees".
• Black Magic "Moths".
• NORA "White Heat".

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Music videos

• Flyleaf "I'm So Sick".
• A Perfect Circle "Weak and Powerless" and "Passive".
• Linkin Park "Crawling".
• Powerman 5000 "Bombshell".
• Godsmack "I Stand Alone".
• Staind "Price to Play".
• Nickelback "How You Remind Me".
• Taproot "Poem".
• Abandoned Pools "Remedy"

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Short Films

• 16mm Mystery.
• Mute.

External links

• Official website of the Brothers Strause
• Official website of hy*drau"lx
• mvwire.com interview with the Brothers Strause