It’s fitting that the lanterns representing some of the buildings torn down to make way for the light rail station have found a temporary home in the windows of the now closed Bailey Coy. Broadway is changing, that’s for sure.
The lanterns were supposed to be burned as part of the Capitol Hill Story Project, but that didn’t happen as planned. ST Art Program Manager Barbara Luecke says they are currently debating how to continue the project, but that they are still accepting stories at [email protected].
(If you’re having trouble playing back this HD version, try the lower res version after the jump)
The I Love My Bike Book photo tour kicked off at Cal Anderson Park yesterday. Boston natives Matt Finkle and Brittain Sullivan are traveling the country taking portraits of people and their bikes to eventually turn into a photo book. I saw Justins tweet about this while it was happening so I headed down. I caught them just as they were shooting their last couple of photos before packing up for the day, they said they shot around 20 people in the four hours they were out there.
Woke up on Saturday to a foggy damp morning, so I decided to head up to Millionaires Row to shoot the mansions in the fog. According to History Link, Millionaires Row is 14th Ave just South of Volunteer Park, so that’s where I went. Now this is not to say that these weren’t nice houses… but is that really Millionaires Row? I was expecting some way fancier houses. I’m thinking maybe I should’ve walked a little further South.
Here it is in HD (I just got a new HD camera! ) Full Screen it if you can.
The big video story of the week is the trailer for Lynn Shelton’s MTV web series $5 Cover: Seattle. It’s a “The Hills” esque, half reality, half scripted show focusing on Seattle Bands. It was entirely shot in Seattle including at least a couple of Cap Hill locations like Chop Suey and the Wildrose. (any others?) MTV isn’t allowing embedding, so click here to watch the trailer.
And here’s some video by Corey Gouker who “just headed down to around Neumos to do some other filming, but drunks like being on camera.”
The much anticipated new video by Zia Mohajerjasbi, for Macklemore’s The Town was released a couple weeks back. But since I forgot to include it in my Top 9 Videos Cap Hill videos of 2009 post, I want to highlight Mohajerjasbi’s The Hug Song video, shot largely in Cal Anderson park.
And here’s a video profile of 35th North, the skate shop at 11th & Pike, produced by New Mode Productions.
Produced & edited by Ben Kaplan. Video, audio and lighting by Jordan Woodworth.
Dick’s customers got a nice surprise this afternoon. A man (who’s name I’m kicking myself for not getting) was playing his electric guitar on Broadway right out on the sidewalk. I couldn’t help but to stop, buy a burger and listen.
– And although it was nothing compared to the parties of election night, we started the year with a street party celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama.
And we did a little self-reflection about what all this Obama enthusiasm, and it’s resulting flood of Obama inspired art, meant about us as a community.
– With the opening of the first section of light rail just months away, Sound Transit started prepping the site of our Capitol Hill station. Thanks to their START program we got some temporary art installed in the soon-to-be demolished buildings.
We capped off the year by continuing our trend of being on the right side of elections, by helping to elect Mike McGinn, who both announced his candidacy on the hill and held his election night (victory!) party on the hill, at the now closed War Room.
This post is by David Albright. I’m a freelance videographer and documentary producer and I also blog about Seattle related videos at dalbright.com/blog. Video credits for all the videos in this post can be found directly under each video.
random observation… It took that #10 bus (in the last shot) two full minutes to load all it’s passengers and start moving again. Hurry up Light Rail, we need you!
