Jesse J. Clarkson
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Jessee J. Clarkson is an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 and special effects designer. He's native of San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

. He has worked on several notable feature films, including The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight (film)
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...

, Model Maker, Iron Man
Iron Man (film)
Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...

, Staff Shop Lead, and Dumb & Dumberer - When Harry Met Lloyd as Mold Shop Foreman, to name a few.

He designed the crown & costume for R&B artist Janelle Monae
Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe is an American R&B/soul musician signed to Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records.Monáe debuted with a conceptual EP, Metropolis: Suite I ...

, which she wore on the cover of her album The Archandroid.

He was the Production Designer for the Broken Bell's video for "The Ghost Inside" Starring Christina Hendricks which was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in 2010.

He owned and operated The Prop Shop Atlanta from 1997 to 2001.

He was a costume designer for the live performance act Rabbit in the Moon from 1996–2000, and joined the live performance act Spacemen in 2000.

He is the half-brother of late actress Lana Clarkson
Lana Clarkson
Lana Jean Clarkson was an American actress and fashion model. Clarkson was a native of Los Angeles County. She played roles in science fiction and fantasy movies. She was murdered by songwriter and producer Phil Spector, who was convicted of the crime on April 13, 2009.-Early life:Born in Long...

. They are both the children of James M. Clarkson, who died of cancer
Cancer
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on May 1, 1978.
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