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LaVie CestLol
Name: LaVie CestLol
Real Name: Jean
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Country: France
First Poop: Le Porridge, quels sont ses réseaux?
Year Started: 2014
Preferred Sources: Something he filmed himself, Music-filled videos, anything that crosses his path
Preferred Methods: Databending, Layering, Chrominance Incrustations, Cut-Up, Sentence Mixing, Slow-Motion, Flickering
Preferred Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5, Audacity, Ableton Live, 0xED
In Brief
LaVie CestLol (Life, it's lol in French, pronounced lavi selɔl), also known as SuperWoodBoy, J, Jean, LaVie, or the French Anthony Fantano, is a Youtube Pooper who began doing his schtick in February 2014. Some of them are in French. Others have no dialog. Some of them are funny. Most of them aren't.
About
LaVie CestLol began to watch typically French sentence-mixing-heavy YTPs around 2009, mostly for the laughs. He then stopped watching YTPs regularly for a while, until 2013, when he saw JeFaisChierLesGens and Manfob22's YTP Tennis Match. He then realized that YTP can be a whole lot more than just funny harmless videos, but can also reveal something that has more meaning to it.
He then began to take interest in YTP in a whole new level, especially after meeting the pooper Pipoupipoulol in real life in the end of 2013. After discovering videos of the likes of Sid1325, laromande, and then CorruptionSound, MycroProcessor or GameBop, he decided to jump out and began to make YTP as well. His first YTP was published on February the 2nd, 2014. If at first, they were mostly for laughs, he took quickly interest in more abstract, humorless styles, eventually mixing tones to create some meaning around it.
Doing his videos, he met the glorious people behind the videos he watched at that time (Kontchalowski, laromande, Sid, LotusEaterMachine, and many more), and, willing to meet even more poop creators, signed up to YouChew on April the 21st, 2014, following laromande's advice, who told him to go there to inform people about the first YTP Collab he was hosting : the MUSICOLLAB (which was a successful idea).
Beginning tennis matches under laromande's wing with the IRL TENNIS (his best memory as a pooper, but also as a videomaker, which consists of only using 100% original material from both tenissers), he now moves around matches of different sorts, styles and themes ; some more abstract and serious, some more for the laughs or for the fun of it. He also participates in various collabs and things, always looking for new experiences and people to work with. He's also planning to direct a documentary around Youtube Poop and its creators, to emphasize the more artistic and human aspect of it, since he hates to see YTP in general just be reduced to some kind of mindless internet meme.
He also made it to the final of the Multi-Way Tournament, after being one of the few replacements which occured on set 4.
Now he also needs to get a job but ... anyways.
Style
- Glitch/Databending
- Abstract
- Random
- Psychedelic
- Slow
- Neurasthenic
- Erratic
- Depressing (sometimes)
- Chaotic
Influences
- Manfob22
- Jefaischierlesgens
- Sid
- laromande (Sempai)
- LotusEaterMachine
- Pipoupipoulol
- MycroProcessor
- CorruptionSound
- GameBop
- Avojaifnot
- ThatComputerPerson
- HaHaHound
- AshcrementVII
- djninjalovemistake
- dewmann
Poopers and MVers he likes
- All of the above
- GabrielCol595 (MWTT Set 5 4eva)
- Bloodis
- BSP666c
- Mashu
- poppop17
- Therazoredge
- iamoutofideas1
- GreatBritishTurd
- Kontchalowski
- EnflureDeRenard
- Geibuchan
- Noble
- RobochaoXX
Fans
Feel free to add yourself here if you like LaVie's Stuff. You don't have to anyways.
General Likes
- Stroboscopes
- Music
- Video Art in general
- People who are genuinely nice (and he met a lot of these when he began YTP)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Talking with his fellow friends on Skype
- Weird experiences
- Slice of life animes
General Dislikes
- Doubt
- Suffering of his friends
- Misunderstandings
- The general mindset of France these days, as in : you have to be a violent moronic yeller to have some kind of credibility, and if you try to think and to take things calmly, you're a sheep.
Misc
- His roster is here, on his profile, always up to date.
- He also has another Youtube Channel where he stole The Needle Drop's concept and did it in French : LesVideocritiquesDeJ
- He does loads of music that you can find here : Gregory Arkadin, an old ambient/drone/noise project, Ascèse Records, where he did music as Michel Thor and Placoplâtre, The Sublime Freak, a noise/rock/shoegaze band he had that is in stand-by and even a weird lo-fi multi-genre session with laromande and LotusEaterMachine
- He used to have two radio shows that nobody listened to.
- He likes to do his self-promotion.
- He likes to list things.
- He likes to talk about what he likes.