Into the Arizona Desert: On Location with Nakai, Eaton & Clipman (Part 2)
More behind the scene footage and photographs of a video shoot featuring four songs from R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman’s Dancing into Silence.
We did have the excitement of a snake “attack”, though it was the snake that was attacked. While setting the glow lights in the pitch darkness to mark the trail for the first dawn shoot, I allegedly stepped on the head of the snake pictured below. I did think I saw a very small snake in the light of my headlamp, but it wasn’t moving in the night cold and I thought I’d stepped over it. Jeff Nagy, who provided the pictures from his camera phone, documented the remains. Rattle snakes were on everyone’s mind (especially on the second dawn shoot which was in less traveled desert), and are always to be treated with extreme caution.
Check back here for more information on the release of the videos which are in the editing process.
- First dawn shoot: sunrise
- First dawn shoot: R. Carlos Nakai (yellow), William Eaton (far right)
- First dawn shoot: snake victim
- First dawn shoot: Nakai, Clipman, Eaton
- First dawn shoot: artists’ POV
- First sunset shoot: Clipman, Nakai, Eaton
- First sunset shoot: artists at left
- Second dawn shoot at sunrise (note headlamp light): Nakai
- Second dawn shoot: close-ups of new saguaro blossoms for B-roll



















