Flipbook: Was it Really a Free-Man’s Alley?

this is a flipbook based on freemans alley in nyc / when I visited freemans alley it was run down, but covered in graffiti art and I wanted to create this flipbook based on that / the flipbook video is accompanied by a poem I wrote about this (and the end of the flipbook has the sound I created of quarters being shuffled to hint at the economical aspect of the alley):

At 12:19 PM along the spray painted streets, Automatic Teller Machine was man-slaughtered

Bashed and unable to be revived, no more could it dispense Washingtons, Lincolns or Hamiltons

Strewed across were men with no money, no food or no place to go

Was it really a Free-man’s alley?

Zuckerberg with a smile so wide as he is already taking over the world

Little does he do about our economic blight

And instead uses his platform for hashtags and likes

Was it really a Free-man’s alley?

We march for women, we speak for freedom, we chant with those who are not recognised

With 99.9% of our DNA shared but it’s that 0.1% that creates a divide

Follow the drinking gourd they said but a 100 years later and we are still where we started

Was it really a Free-man’s alley?

Same old laws, same old news, same old happenings, same old views

With spray cans they painted, they spoke, they sang

A picture is a 1000 words, arts and activism is the way to be heard

Was it really a Free-man’s alley?

Right across money grows on trees

It’s all louis vuitton, gucci and yeezy

The poor man will look in his pocket and slowly fade away

The rich will grow richer and richer and richer, did I mention richer?

Was it really a free-man’s alley?

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