We had just started discussing the concept two weeks before shooting the video." Ryan and I talked about it I showed them some drawings of how I thought I’d approach it, and Ryan gave me the go-ahead. "They knew that they wanted it to look like an eagle. They knew what they wanted, and already had Keith on the job figuring out how to make it work, by the time I signed on as art director. "As far as the origin of the idea, it came from Ben Haggerty (Macklemore) and Ryan Lewis, as far as I know.
"Eric Nally (singer who drives it in the video) was a quick learner, who learned how to drive it in a parking lot the night before the shoot! It drives like a stick shift, with pedals (gas/brake/clutch) in the chariot, controlling one of the bikes. In a separate email, Lavin elaborated on the chariot's drive-ability: "The chariot really works, and it really steers with the leather reins that I had made by a saddle maker in Spokane." It is a silver metal eagle with a gold-leaf beak, and headlight eyes. The Royal Enfields are the Black Chrome model Bullets. "In the video there is an awesome, fully functioning, four-motorcycle chariot, which was custom made by Keith Wong, from the Seattle Hot Rod Shop Zacky's. On his website he explains how the eagle chariot came about. He's a production designer and art director, prop maker and painter, based in Seattle.
John Lavin was art director for the music video. The video is the catchy, upbeat Macklemore and Ryan Lewis piece " Downtown." It's not just a digital dream - the motorcycles and the chariot are real.
Incredibly, the reins really do steer this four-motorcycle chariot.įour Royal Enfield Bullets pull a chariot shaped like the head of an eagle through the streets of Spokane, Wash.
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