in the dark of night

as my evenings and late evenings have been consumed with the overnight shoots in greenpoint area of new york, i have had the rare chance to see what creatures creep at the wee hours of the morning....



1 small group of 2 guys on mini bikes (those miniature speed motorcycles) used our street as a drag racing lane (7pm)


1 hassidic jewish husband and wife that sat in their car for about 1.5 hours watching us work (12:30am)


2 men that work in the feather packing facility that watch us out of the chain link fence that separates them from the outside world, but manages to let small amounts of chicken feathers float into the night air as the machine squash them into giant bundles (all night 7pm to 6am when we left)

1 man covered in tattoos that decided that one of our actors was surely a long lost friend

1 man wearing a virginia beach tshirt (maybe a little drunk) roaming the street that watched a few takes and tried to tell us what he thought went wrong (3am)

1 roam trio of skateboarders (2:30am)

1 old man complete with white beard, yankees cap and red windbreaker strolled by around 4:45am to just observe the garbage on the street.

i can't tell if being a film crew draws more attention and more people gravitate toward the lights like moths or if these are just the regular passerbys that haunt the night in search of something to see or do.

none the less, it is incredibly interesting to see what visitors happened by at every hour of the night and i thought i was a little wacky for my 5am dog walks.