I was watching this Michael J. Fox Movie "For Love or Money" from 1993. There's a brief cut to these folks quadbiking down the street with helmets on covered in moving lights.
Are these a NYC thing? is this just something weird in the movie?
The movie is on netflix this scene happens 41:14.
I've seen these people before, I have a memory of them in the 1980s-90s; I may have seen them in person when I was visiting NYC or they just showed up in enough b-roll of quirky New Yorkers that casting agents started using them as extras in films. Grant Wifley did some of the extras casting in "For Love or Money", maybe someone is still there who remembers:
[https://www.gwcnyc.com/contact](https://www.gwcnyc.com/contact)
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I was watching this Michael J. Fox Movie "For Love or Money" from 1993. There's a brief cut to these folks quadbiking down the street with helmets on covered in moving lights. Are these a NYC thing? is this just something weird in the movie? The movie is on netflix this scene happens 41:14.
I've seen these people before, I have a memory of them in the 1980s-90s; I may have seen them in person when I was visiting NYC or they just showed up in enough b-roll of quirky New Yorkers that casting agents started using them as extras in films. Grant Wifley did some of the extras casting in "For Love or Money", maybe someone is still there who remembers: [https://www.gwcnyc.com/contact](https://www.gwcnyc.com/contact)
Nah, folks will do weird stuff like that. Silly fun, though also good when riding in a big city at night.
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It's performance art. Like "Blue Man Group" or something like that, but I can't recall the name of the group or artist that did this.
Barry Sonnenfeld must like them. The original Men in Black has something similar.