stuff i worked on - del tha funky homosapien video

in 1993 i had just moved back to San Francisco from LA and was picking up work as a PA on a bunch of music videos (and moving on up into the art department) and this del tha funky homosapien is one of the first videos i worked on there. i just found it - i have never seen it until now - but looking at it, i remember every shot and what was going on (for instance there is a scene of a bunch of middle aged uniformed gay dudes. I pulled them out a mission district gay bar called the Eagle - asked if they'd like to be in a music video and they were thrilled with the idea - we were shooting next door to the Paradise Lounge which is down the street from the Eagle).

We also shot at the funky ass Albion (bar scenes) on the then still rather crusty 16th street (not so crusty anymore) and also up the street in the Castro district in front of the classic Castro theater. All I remember was that Del tha funky homosapien was so stoned during most of the shoot that he would literally fall asleep on the sidewalk after each camera set-up (at one point one of the production's uniformed cops tried to shoo him down the road him until he was informed that the "sleeping dude" was not some wasted bum but was in fact the star of the video - and Del was tripping on acid one day). Anyhow, the tune is the soundtrack to some dumb ass Whoopy Goldberg movie, but it brought back a lot of fun memories. It's funny that how I never saw so many of the videos/commercials I worked on - they just slipped away - I was just happy that the checks cleared - but thanks to all this whizbang gimcrackery now at our itchy fingertips, that is remedied forever. I'll try to find more of the videos I worked on and post them.