from the heart of bed stuy

Spec Boogie - Bed Stuy from Boombaye' on Vimeo.


lately, i’ve been digging this video. it features some nice photographs of old school bed-stuy scenes and people. ali santana (director) and spec boogie do a good job of capturing the architecture and public art that are characteristic of the neighborhood. there are some allusions in the video to “the changing face” of Brooklyn  (it is part of an exhibit atMoCADA, the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, about gentrification). i haven’t picked through the lyrics enough to see how the message is conveyed in the words of the song, but the sign language sequences in silhouette are pretty clear in their meaning…


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