Alphonse & Mark

There is a scene in Meter Maids Eat Their Young that required me to film a woman Salsa dancing down Newbury Street. To get the shot off, I barrowed a HD JVC Video camera from Paulo and purchased duct tape and a wooden utility pole from Parks True Value Hardware. I even stuck a caster wheel on the bottom of the stick so that I could roll it down the Street. 

The wooden pole allowed me to keep the video camera steady during the shot of Pie and at the correct height of a parking meter. If your wondering all parking meters are approximately 4’-6” high (Pie is a Student at Harvard University as well as a talented Choreographer) 

In this particular scene of Meter Maids Eat Their Young we view the scene of the woman dancing down Newbury Street through the eyes of Cowboy and his work mates looking through the glass of the parking meter.  

The Goblins that work inside the parking meter are Middleville cartoon characters. Their jobs are to authenticate the currency (quarters) as they come into the parking meter and repair the clock.  

You know a parking meter is basically a big piggy bank. Boston collects over $10 million  per year from approximately 7,000 parking meters. Boston also collects $100 Million in parking fines. $40 Billion per year globally in parking fines.

(Left to right: Alphonse & Mark)

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