The Life of Jos Claerbout

http://sep.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/

1/2009

The Life of Jos Claerbout

Johannes "Jos" Dianovich (born Jeremy David) Claerbout

June 14, 1974 - August 20, 1999

"What do we have to look forward to today?
There are a lot of things we have to look forward to today."

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Fourteen vignettes (14 photo, anecdote pairs)
His college entrance essays are real zingers!
His Toessel hobby site is fantastic! Tales of 36 models. Grandma.
Pomona college (economics).
- Moist and fresh [quintessential Jos]
- Jen and the art of bicycle maintenance.
Alaska!
- His big fish.
- J."Hoss" Claerbout sets up the American Country Magazine
- US Congressional election campaign.
Don't fear the OOP!
He loved his job at WebTV.
Rear Cubicle, His video reinterpretation of a Hitchcock classic.

All that by age 25! Try to imagine what could have followed!

The fateful hour.
Tributes by coworkers: Joel. Emily, Josh.
10 people's memories . 127 people's memories
The Funeral. The memorial video. The charity.
More? See the longer version.