As a photographer, I often have the privilege of being behind the scenes in a variety of creative processes. Being part of a video shoot for Bay Area psychedelic-rockers Milk For The Angry was one of those special moments of creative fun.
The decline of San Francisco was apparent as we shot part of the band's new video on the city's famed Market Street, a once thriving and lucrative area that used to have a Starbucks on every corner and nary a "FOR LEASE" sign anywhere during the dot.com boom, but it is now home to many disadvantaged folks living an alternate life on the streets. So long economic boom, hello destitute city! What better location to film a video about greed and obsession with wealth and money?
In our four hours of filming, MFTA frontman Dana Lindstrom directed us while the wickedly brilliant Will Rushton shot the footage amid the smell of piss, drive-by's from cops (who, oddly, left us alone), interactive and curious street people and the ridiculous cacophony of the Blue Angels and Fleet Week to remind us of costly and ongoing wars.
The decline of San Francisco was apparent as we shot part of the band's new video on the city's famed Market Street, a once thriving and lucrative area that used to have a Starbucks on every corner and nary a "FOR LEASE" sign anywhere during the dot.com boom, but it is now home to many disadvantaged folks living an alternate life on the streets. So long economic boom, hello destitute city! What better location to film a video about greed and obsession with wealth and money?
In our four hours of filming, MFTA frontman Dana Lindstrom directed us while the wickedly brilliant Will Rushton shot the footage amid the smell of piss, drive-by's from cops (who, oddly, left us alone), interactive and curious street people and the ridiculous cacophony of the Blue Angels and Fleet Week to remind us of costly and ongoing wars.
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