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?
