–Live stream below the jump–
As many of you already know, the band Flaming Lips is in Portland today filming their upcoming music video. As we reported last week, the band came here to enlist the help of naked bike riders for part of the video.
Several of the band members showed up at a pre-shoot party at Radio Room last night and now they’re in full production mode up at Mt. Tabor in Southeast Portland. Read more about today’s shoot in this article published by Billboard.com.
Dan Kaufman of CrankMyChain TV is up on the hill doing a live broadcast. So far I’ve seen a few groups of riders, smoke, band member Wayne Coyne, and Dan strumming guitar in the buff (you’ve been warned).
I’ve copied the embed code of the broadcast below:
[UPDATED: Live feed is done. Feel free to share how it went for you in the comments.]
I’ve got the comments open and would love to hear from anyone else who was up there. Chime in below with your thoughts about the event.
Band “member”. Ha Ha.
The video shoot has been going well, done about four takes. Wayne is in his bubble perched atop six milkcrates on a cargo bike. Kind of precarious at times, but everyone has been having fun.
Thanks for xposting the feed, Jonathan.
We had a blast up there and it’s still going on (as far as I know). The broadcast was a surprisingly a bit choppy due to the location and we almost got shut down on Stickam.com cause we showed butt cracks on the first take. I thought that would be okay.
The ranger didn’t like the butt cracks either. He forcefully said, (and I’m paraphrasing), “put on bottoms or will put on handcuffs”.
He felt that FL were pushing the limit of their permit with the park. Ya think?
I think if the city wants more Naked Bike Ride movies and the massive budget$ behind them they need to lighten up. Who hasn’t seen genetalia in the Portland park before, anyway? 😉 Eww, it sounds nasty that way. Well, it was actually quite beautiful today.
In the first scenes the band leader, Wayne Coyne, was carried around by (TEAM BEER) John Howe’s trike in a in a big plastic ball (fully clothed) above the crowd of 120 or so naked (and later topless) riders. I was concerned that he was going to roll off the zip-tied milk crates that were holding him up and down the hill, but several strong Portland Cyclists prevented catastrophe during each take. By the look on his face I’m not so sure Wayne was convinced of the safety on his self-designed contraption.
Wayne says he’ll get naked later in future scenes.
It was (and is) a perfect day for a naked bike ride video. You can still ride up and let the Flaming Lips exploit your body or catch the video at some later date.
Overheard Lead Singer Wayne Coyne say: “For a bunch of half naked people in Portland, you all smell good!”
Tons of fun! I understand the shooting will recommence tomorrow at Sauvie Island?
Just got home. About 20 of us left the shoot with our own naked bike ride downtown and back. A great night and no major hassles.
Shooting tomorrow is planned for the nude beach on Sauvie Island. You can drive up on your own or you can catch a shuttle from the Mt Tabor basketball court at 10am.
Fun times!
I am part of the team that helped build the cargo-bike-milk-crate contraption yesterday. We can’t believe it has gone so well. The shoot has been a blast so far for sure.
I think the sauvie island comment may be a rumor, I didn’t hear any word of it today yet. You never know though.
Today’s totally nude Sauvie Island shoot was confirmed last night as shooting ended. Jason’s post pretty much says it all.
Where on Sauvie Island is it being shot? I’m getting conflicting reports. One site says Collins Beach another says it’s at Gus Van Sant’s property on Sauvie Island. Which is where????
I’m at Sauvie Island now and don’t see the trucks at any of the beaches. Please discole the location, I’m a fan and want to be in the shoot!
Dan (#3) – Sorry for parks, the ranger is WAY out of line. Public nudity in Oregon is a free speech issue – unless the video was being made for “prurient” purposes, it is protected to the limit of the law in this state. He might not like it, but there’s nothing he can legally do about it.
I love Oregon.
Lame – my friends and I read that Wednesday’s shoot was from 10 to 10. We showed up at 8 and the only people there were more disappointed people who said that we should go to Sauvie the next day. Unfortunately, we all work during the day. We were so mad that we had to bike home naked.
Sauvie Island shoot (at Gus Van Sant’s) was a LONG day (finished around 10, shuttle left after 10:30, didn’t return to Mt. Tabor until after midnight). But it was a great deal of fun: beautiful people running & biking around naked, giant fur-covered vagina births crazed happy people encounter well-tailored man in crystal space bubble… beyond words. So glad that the Flaming Lips thought of Portland for this madness.
Someone has set up a Facebook group for extras who participated in either day of filming: Flaming Lips Naked Extras