The Port of Oakland, California, 2010-2012, as seen from a (very) slow-moving car with a DSLR hanging off the side windows…
I used to haunt the Port of Oakland. The container cranes and trains and trucks and the containers themselves stacked up everywhere just cried out to be videoed, so — as with Drive-By: Oilfield — I did the Drive-By Thing and drove very slowly through the Port whenever I could squeeze between the trucks. I got enough (shaky 720p) footage part-time over a year or so to be able to combine it with a nicely compelling soundtrack from Oakland musician Stephen M. Duffy and this is the result. As with the oilfield videos, I’d love to redo this with better gear, but Port security is much better nowadays and it just isn’t going to happen…