High Maintenance’s Season 3 Premiere airs tonight on HBO.
On set in one of the sets from tonight’s episode.
This set is supposed to be the home of a 1970’s hippie and the script called for “anti-establishment vibes, his home is a shrine to 60s and 70s counterculture, instruments from around the globe and protest signs from the distant and not so distant past”…
Seeing as we are very low budget and getting clearance on the more famous music activism images is challenging, we were pretty much relegated to what I could find on Library of Congress images. We were filling the house with these posters and images so I had a ton of things that were good, but I still hadn’t found the right music concert that typified that era yet.
I was searching and searching trying my best to come up with something that really represented that era to this character, thinking of all the activist musicians of that era I could think of. Often I would search and no good images, or just black and white photos of them would come back. And then I had a moment of inspiration when I thought about searching for “Joan Baez.”
And no joke, one of the best moments in my relationships with Library of Congress images appeared after that search when I came across this.
Exactly what the script called for, the total kind of concert our character Berg would have been at, but most of all: the aesthetic and fonts of this poster were just perfect.
It is the little triumphs that can make you ecstatic.