This is one gorgeous video!
Back when my little sister was in town, I wanted to show her what Portland is like. My friend Audrey called with the perfect offer—paper maiche-ing (how do you spell that?) masks for this video.
We went to an apartment off Powell and squeezed into a living room with four other people, including the director Daniel. Each of us had a tub of goop and a stack of torn up grocery bags. The whole kitchen was filled with previously papered molds with hairdryers stuck in them. They said they were working in morning and night shifts for multiple days to make about 60 masks…and that’s before painting each!
These look like they’re coming out at you, but they’re indented.
The woman who made the plaster molds for the masks did really detailed work, so filling places like the nostrils and the wrinkles around the face took some real patience with tiny strips of paper and the end of a pencil.
I can’t remember why we were asked to write our names in them. They credited us in their official video, as mask makers, so nice of them! It’s one of the top google hits for my name now, ha.
I get the big sister award for introduction to Portland awesomeness! She didn’t know Blitzen Trapper, but I bet they will hit remote Colorado soon.
They will indeed be hitting Colorado very soon…this month actually, in Denver and Aspen. Go check out tour dates on http://www.blitzentrapper.net