February 22, 1999 — In an Aphex Start exclusive interview with Dom Hailstone, who did work on special make-up effects for the "Come To Daddy" video, questions were answered that may come as a surprise to some. Feel free to submit other questions for the full interview coming up. This is only the teaser.

Aphex Start: How did it come about that you were selected for the job?
Dom Hailstone: Dave Elsey who was in charge of the prosthetics effects for the video hired me to help out. I often work for him, so there wasn't really any selection process as such.

AS: How involved were you with the entire video?
DH: I worked for about two weeks with Dave on the masks during pre-production which included painting, hair-work, making eyes, etc. There wasn't much time to do everything, so, although there were five masks made, there was only one "close-up head" which was featured prominently in the foreground. The rest were of varying quality (i.e.: shit). Although Chris said these in fact looked better than the close-up one in the dailies.
We didn't really have any input as far as the look of the models in the video since they were all based around Richard's face.

AS: Did Chris [Cunningham, director of the video] or somebody else just send you a letter and tell you what to do, or did you actually talk to Chris or Richard?
DH: Richard had to be around for the casting of his head which was used to make the masks, he also popped down to the set for a day. And Chris is generally pretty hands on since he used to be an effects artist himself and rightfully likes to make sure that everything's going smoothly.

AS: Were you ever on location or did you stay in a studio or at your home?
DH: I was on location for the day they filmed the skinny demon emerging from the TV. We had this amazingly thin actor called Alan Stokes (who actually looks a bit fatter on the video) don a mask which Chris had sculpted. We forced him through a fake TV and covered him with slime. He ended up shivering, blind, and miserable because we put him though hell. I would just end up laughing because Alan looked so cool even though he was probably a bit of an emotional wreck after the experience. Being given birth to by a TV involves sitting around on a cold concrete floor in a puddle of what looks like monkey spunk for about three hours so it's not fun. Originally, the scene was going to feature a miniature puppet (sculpted by Robert Bliss) which was much more extreme but there wasn't enough time to shoot it.