I was at the shoot for the new Macklemore video “White Walls” waiting in the crowd to see what was going to happen. I was less interested, admittedly, in the music (though I like some of Macklemore’s songs) than I was in the stunning fact that the mere rumor (later confirmed) of the shoot brought thousands of people to a shut down Broadway Avenue in Capitol Hill. I stood with my girlfriend, looking around, watching the litter (soda cans, etc.) accumulate on the street, astonished at the some 5,000 audience members. At some point a Cadillac appeared and people rushed to the other side of the blockade (where previously pretty women had been holding large signs saying “This is a video shoot”) where Macklemore and Ryan Lews, along with ScHoolboy Q, started driving up and down the street with cameras following them closely. I remember feeling a sense of pride for the town and its successful sons, coupled with a somewhat subdued sense of “Well, maybe we’re just like every other city, like everyone else, able to be corralled for the sake of seeing a star” (because why, really, were we all there? what did we think we were going to see?). My lady and I left not long after that, not staying for the rapper to appear on the top of Dick’s Burgers (paying homage to Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Posse on Broadway”). Here is the finished product of the new video – it is random, at times funny and clever, at times curious, but always a sight. For those of you who were also there, what do you remember?