Getting Started

While at Coachella, Marcus decides to act the part and

take pictures.

“If you walk a certain way and talk a certain way,” he soon

discovers, “I can get close to the stage.”

This leads to him putting up pictures on his facebook,

which his friend that is interning for Bonnaroo

sees.Bonnaroo asks to use his photos as promotion and

as payment he receives two Bonnaroo tickets.

Picture from Bonnaroo

After Bonnaroo, Marcus was inspired to make a short film called “Conaroo: How Broke Kids Do Bonnaroo.”

He passed along the DVD copy to a crew member of Mumford & Sons.

The band was so impressed he was invited on the Mumford & Sons bus to join them at Coachella 2011.

He was later emailed, by Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros asking to go on the Railroad Revival Tour.

The only issue was the tour was during the same time of his last semester of college finals.

“That put me up against a pretty gnarly decision to make:

Go on a train with these amazing bands and have the

time of my life or go to finals and get that degree that I’ve

been working for essentially since kindergarten,” Haney

says. “Come on, what would you have done?”

His friend called him to pick up the latest Rolling Stone

magazine. Marcus said he saw his parents pride,

although it wasn’t the diploma they had always hoped for.

He primarily shot in Super8 and 16mm. His go to camera

was Canon 5D (outfitted with EF 24-105mm and 15mm

f/2.8 fisheye lence), 35mm Canon Ae1 SLR, and a

GoPro.

Marcus made a documentary about his experiences that

premiered on MTV called “No Cameras Allowed”.

MTV agreed to show the documentary exactly how he

created it, without changing one frame.

“ My first Bonnaroo I snuck into, went into the photo pit,

got elbow to elbow with all the photographers where

everyone’s fighting for the shot, and really learned what

that was all about before getting kicked out of the festival.

Compare that to this Bonnaroo of being onstage with a

headliner- the only one allowed anywhere near the stage

with a camera, and having full access to walk wherever I

want.”