Dollar Van Demos
This has just blown me away. There’s a van line called Black Street Van Line for neighborhoods where New York City public transport lets you down. They run a route from downtown Brooklyn (near Fulton Steet Mall) to Kings Plaza in Queens. Joe Revitte, with a background in indie film but inspired by live, ‘real’ videos on the web, realized this was a great stage to feature musicians and performers. So he started Dollar Van Demos.
About once a month Joe and his team pile into the van and along the route they pick up an artist to be featured. They run an instrumental of the artists’ music and film them performing. A few takes, some straightforward editing and Joe posts the performance online. It promotes the artist, the van line, and a community on the fringes, yet absolutely part of the foundation, of NYC. This is another great example of taking your art and doing something different to promote yourself and the people around you. Huge respect to Dollar Van Demos.
