Director X on his new art installation for Nuit Blanche

Many of us have probably experienced Director X's art through a TV or computer screen, but now the famed music video director is ready to bring his vision into the real world. 

On Oct. 1, Director X will bring Death of the Sun to Toronto's Nuit Blanche. An art installation that features a 45-feet tall hot air balloon sitting atop a 10-foot podium, Director X originally had something more elaborate planned but had to downsize his piece. "What I wanted to do is the solar system," he tells guest host Candy Palmater today. "Go around the city and find the Earth, but they city was like, 'No, you get one place.'" 

This reworked version will still convey Director X's ideas, though. Inspired by his childhood summers spent in Georgian Bay, where he began to think about life and death a lot, Death of the Sun is meant to put humans into perspective in relation to the sun, to make us realize that we're just a "little dot." 

With music videos, a feature film and now an art installation under his belt, Director X is open to exploring even more artistic avenues in the future. "If someone said do a dance piece, I would do that," he explains. "Go with the creativity, if the opportunity arises you've got to take it."