Moby - Wait For Me

1480 photographs taken in 34 minutes 11 seconds in New York on the 16th of March, 2010 from Sean's half of a cast iron lamp post on the junction of 34th street and 7th Avenue. Looking south as the evening sun casts a shadow across my cameras fixed view. Keeping in tight, holding onto my tripod on the edge of the sidewalk and trying to make myself small and not be in anyone way. Trying to be invisible. That isnt very difficult in New York. On the other half of the post an Asian man sells newspapers but he is eventually more amused by my antics, taking pictures constantly, trying to keep a rhythm, left-right-left-right, one-two-one-two, swinging my right hand to the pace in my head holding the shutter cord and trying to capture the rhythm of peoples feet as they pour across the road.

Trying to concentrate, not to be distracted, I turn away from my captive audience and continue shooting. A man is photographing me from about 10 feet away, or maybe hes making a video, but I do think its me hes shooting not the New York skyline. I feel Im not so invisible after all, in fact I feel like an attraction, an amusement, like a performance artist. I look at my watch, I stop, pick up my stuff and run across 34th street to our Starbucks office where Hy is holding court and charging equipment and minding bags and shooting out the window. We leave and Joseph a Moroccan Taxi driver brings us to JFK Airport.

This video is our first real presentation of the Miami to New York mid March 2010 footage. Wait For Me has haunting lyrics with a piano riff that sounds like the pitter patter of peoples feet or rain on glass. The track is 4 minutes 12 seconds so the 1480 still images literally flash by in front of you. Although the sun is shining there is no colour. The people are almost silhouetted with the sun behind them and they cast dramatic shadows.
1480 photographs of 34 minutes 11 seconds at 34th Street & 7th Avenue NYC,NY :

Sean Corcoran, April 2nd 2010

Added by Hy April 3 2010:
There is a video of the photographer shooting the photographs at
http://miamitonewyork.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/the-making-of-wait-for-me-moby...
www.MiamiToNewYork.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Moby
• Wait for Me Bango
• MiamiToNewYork
• RedKruzer
• Street Photographer
• New York City
• 34th Street
• 7th Avenue
• NYC

[girliewhirly]

i listened to/watched the official video - i couldn't take my eyes off it... but the movement and rhythm of this photography is what i saw in my head listening to the music....awesome work, thank you for it!

[RedKruzer]

@girliewhirly , u sure know how to flatter someone…

much appreciated…

your make up video is quite well done.

What was your part in it?

[RedKruzer]

@girliewhirly ---hope you swa feat we did combining this moby video with a basshunter video we did...

[RedKruzer]

Thank you all so much...

[RedKruzer]

10,000 hits in less than 2 monthes...

[bigbeninjax]

Hey, Hy! You've definitely been busy editing all this together! Nice effect and goes excellently with the rhythm in the piano and song. Would have been cool to have one seemingly out of character person stand perfectly still for about 10 minutes ("Wait for Me") so everyone would appear to be rushing by him/her. Not too late.....go shoot it again! LOL.

Nice job....I gotta go vote! Come see us!

[RedKruzer]

@bigbeninjax , Ben Look forward to a visit. Love your music. Will use some soon .

Hy

[ubuibiok]

. . A UBUIBIOK FAVORITE !

[ubuibiok]

@RedKruzer . . A UBUIBIOK FAVORITE ! A Special Thanks and Shout out goes too @RedKruzer

[enQelcheNxO]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

[kingskippi]

Das ist wie Chilout, Abschalten und einfach nur zuhören!

[RMCKIE]

Sorry to say it gets boring after 30 seconds of the same thing.

[selmishka]

this is an excellent vid, stumbled upon it by accident, it's beautiful, thank u!

[Tupalidofinal]

lovely, amazing!