El Oms
| El Oms | |
|---|---|
| Born | Omar Baltazar Juarez August 30, 1983 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Mexican-American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Omar Baltazar Juarez (born 30 August 1983), also known as El Oms, is a Mexican-American artist, animator, and director. He is known for making animated music videos, album artwork, and illustrations.
Biography
Omar Juarez was born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico.[1] As a child, he was inspired by street culture, graffiti, and music.[1] He later began working under the name El Oms.[1]
Juarez creates visual designs and animated videos for music projects. He has worked with musicians and bands, such as El Michels Affair, Evolfo, Tony Joe White, Lee Fields and the Expressions, El Dusty, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and Thee Lakesiders.
In 2015, Juarez directed the animated music video for "Put A Flower In Your Pocket" by The Arcs,[2] a noir-style story with anthropomorphic characters.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He also created the cover art for the band's debut album, Yours, Dreamily,, mixing Chicano art with classic monster themes.[9]
In 2017, he made an animated video for "Iron Man" by El Michels Affair. The video mixes martial arts style with action scenes.[10] In the same year, he also made a video called "La Chusa" about lowrider culture in the 1990s.[11]
In 2018, Juarez made a video for "Up On a Mountain of Love" by Dan Auerbach, showing a couple being pulled into a painting.[12] In 2021, he created animated visuals for Give Me Time by Evolfo[13] and "Smoke from the Chimney" by Tony Joe White.[14] That same year, he also designed the cover for the single "Fazed Out" by El Michels Affair.[15]
Juarez has also directed live-action music videos for Thee Lakesiders and Thee Heart Tones.[16] He designed the album cover for "Electrophonic Chronic" by The Arcs. In 2024, the artwork was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Recording Package category.
His artwork is also featured in books. He illustrated a children's book called Yeti Season by Francine Prose, and his work appears in La Luna en Mi Corazón, a book by poet Anthony Luke Lucero.
Filmography
Animated music videos
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Put A Flower In Your Pocket (The Arcs) |
| 2017 | Iron Man (El Michels Affair) |
| Parachute (El Michels Affair) | |
| La Chusa (El Dusty) | |
| 2018 | Up On a Mountain of Love (Dan Auerbach) |
| 2019 | Catch Me I'm Falling (Thee Lakesiders) |
| Wake Up (Thee Lakesiders) | |
| Impeach The President (El Michels Affair) | |
| 2021 | Give Me Time (Evolfo) |
| Smoke from the Chimney (Tony Joe White) | |
| 2023 | Hermosa Drive (Hermanos Gutiérrez) |
Album artwork
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Yours, Dreamily, (The Arcs) |
| Stay In My Corner (The Arcs) | |
| Outta My Mind (The Arcs) | |
| 2019 | The Soul Chance (The Soul Chance) |
| Shades of Sorrow | |
| 2021 | Fazed Out (El Michels Affair) |
| Stack the Deck (El Michels Affair) | |
| 2023 | Electrophonic Chronic (The Arcs) |
| 2024 | Shades of Sorrow Vol. 2 |
| Shades of Sorrow Vol. 3 | |
| 2025 | Parachute (Thee Lakesiders) |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Category | Notes | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Electrophonic Chronic (The Arcs) | 66th Annual Grammy Awards | Best Recording Package | Nominated |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Meet Omar Juarez of El Oms Art". Voyage LA Magazine. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
- ↑ "The Arcs "Put A Flower in Your Pocket" brings the feels!". KDKB. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
He drew everything by hand, frame by frame and colored with regular markers. It kinda has that same feel as Radiohead’s Paranoid Android but the story in this one is heartbreaking.
- ↑ Tom Breihan (13 August 2015). "The Arcs – "Put A Flower In Your Pocket" Video". Stereogum. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
El Oms directed the video, an animated noir story about anthropomorphic ape people.
- ↑ "Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach's band The Arcs share new song – watch". New Musical Express (NME). 14 August 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
Directed by El Oms, the animated video for ‘Put A Flower In Your Pocket’ features a love triangle between a boxer, a gangster, and the gangster’s girlfriend.
- ↑ "Watch: The Arcs Unveil "Put a Flower in Your Pocket" Video". Nonesuch Records. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
Director El Oms, (artist Omar Juarez).
- ↑ Jeremy Gordon (13 August 2015). "The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Shares New Arcs Video "Put a Flower in Your Pocket"". Pitchfork (website). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
- ↑ D. Patrick Rodgers (13 August 2015). "Dan Auerbach's The Arcs Get Animated in Boxing-Themed 'Put a Flower in Your Pocket' [Fresh Vid]". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
The El Oms-directed video — a rad animated clip featuring an anthropomorphized-dog sort of species — follows an ill-fated fighter in the fallout of a brutal loss.
- ↑ Ryan Reed (13 August 2015). "Watch Dan Auerbach-fronted the Arcs' violent cartoon video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
Director Omar Juarez presents the violent tale of a boxer, his lover and a merciless gangster, set to the band’s psychedelic throb.
- ↑ "Watch: The Arcs Unveil "Put a Flower in Your Pocket" Video". Nonesuch Records. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
Director El Oms, who also created the album's artwork, said of the video, "My style is a combination of Chicano Art mixed with universal monsters.
- ↑ Richard Best (28 February 2017). "El Michels Affair Premieres 'Iron Man' Video w Mass Appeal". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
The "Iron Man" video was directed by artist El Oms [..] The animation is a mini revenge saga the publication calls, "a blend of bugged-out martial arts imagery with a healthy dose of straight-up mayhem.
- ↑ Claudia Mercado (27 January 2017). "Nu-Cumbia's Master El Dusty Releases Video for Newest Single "La Chusa"". Retrieved 11 June 2025.
The video for the single, produced and animated by Mexican artist, Omar Juarez "EL OMS", takes us back to the lowrider heydays of the 90's.
- ↑ Jon Blistein (1 February 2018). "Hear Dan Auerbach's Charming New Song 'Up On a Mountain of Love'". Retrieved 11 June 2025.
Artist Omar Juarez helmed the clip for “Up On a Mountain of Love,” in which a couple is sucked into a pastoral painting on their wall.
- ↑ Mike Leusuer (20 April 2021). "Get Lost in Evolfo's Psychedelic, Buñuel-Inspired Visual for "Give Me Time"". Flood Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ↑ Dacey Orr Sivewright (16 April 2021). "Listen Now: A Lost Song from Tony Joe White". Garden & Gun. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ↑ Joey Arnone (16 March 2021). "l Michels Affair Share New Single "Fazed Out"". Under the Radar (magazine). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
- ↑ "Thee Lakesiders - Parachute". 17 August 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2025 – via YouTube.
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