I began sketching out ideas and looking through visual material that 
inspires me. Many concepts were developed and presented to the band 
in the fall of 2007. Eventually through a series of emails, it was decided
that a story set in a school would best suit the song and the album. 
The challenge was, how to do a video set in a school that was unique... 
many music videos are set in schools. The band toured Europe and I set 
to work. Upon their return, I had many drawings of student masks for 
them to review. Ultimately all my mask designs were rejected (for 
various reasons I won’t discuss here!)... forcing us to push our November 
shoot date into 2008.

A new mask was designed, presented and approved... and then the work 
of making all the 35 masks began. I worked (with some holiday help from 
Turpana Molina, Samantha Levin and Jason Goldman) over the course of 
November and December. The orginal mask was sculpted in clay and a 
plaster positive was pulled. That was refined and then a final mold was 
created. Each mask involved a long process of multiple layers of liquid 
plastic applied to the mold. 
The cracked masks were derived from a new mold made of a cracked 
mask. All of these then needed to be hand painted, with pig tail balls,
bows and straps added.

In the meantime, extras were culled from TBM’s fan base by Samantha, 
while Jason began the challenging process of setting up crew, location, 
budget and equipment for our two day shoot on a tight budget and 
Charlotte Kruse tirelessly sewed all the school uniforms. 
The shoot went gloriously well thanks to a great crew and very 
patient extras... and of course, TBM being very cool, as expected. 
Sam Chase was our main DP although we had 3 additional cameramen. 
Everyone contributed and did a great job. I began editing immediately 
following this, with a ton of great footage at my disposal. Things 
wrapped up in mid-March... which means I worked on this for about 7 1/2
months!
Note to self: I’ve got to stop doing these labors of love!!
I hope everyone enjoys it!"

Looking Glass EP (2008)

Available May 6. 2008
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