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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Crystal Ball Music Video: a photo-essay
So I thought it's about time I wrote a post about the crystal ball video shoot. 
Everyone involved was amazing and did way more work than was expected of them. D'eon fell through ice into a freezing river and almost died, and at the end we accidently made napalm and had to flee as firetrucks arrived to save the day!
The director of photography was the amazing John Londono: 
And the director was a crazed foreigner named Tim Kelly: 
Here he is saying "I'm done!" because the giant hat broke:
But despite hardship, the end results were incredible: 
We also shot everything in double time so it could all be in slow motion in the final version, which resulted in me listening to this sped up techno version of the song about 500 times: 
CRYSTAL BALL 160% by grimes69 
SPECIAL THANKS TO : MARILIS CARDINAL, TIM KELLY, JOHN LONDONO, RENATA MORALES (who did the crazy costume), JASPAR BAYDALA, SEB COWAN, THEA GOVORCHIN, CAROLINE DUTKA, CHRIS D'EON, CYNTHIA-CHRISTINA CEE, TED STAFFORD, and if anyone knows the name of the fourth slave, the male model - I would love to know so I can credit him here..
Written by grimes69 at 1/12/2011
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