Amiri Baraka's "Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)"
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Uploaded by greenbryano on Jul 23, 2007
a visual adaptation of Baraka's scathing and foreboding social commentary (music by The Roots.) Shot on three different types of film and two different types of video over three months with at least fifty actors/extras in about twenty-five locations in the West Philly area by one guy. (Bryan Green, 22, senior film & video major at Drexel University)
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This poem got me through some hard times
2 years ago 6
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The dead guy you saw me talkin too is your boss. I tried to put a spell on him, but his sprint is ilterate!!
1 year ago 5
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"WOW"......I mean really........."WOW"
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Beautiful. Powerful. Meaningful. Very well done. How has it been received?
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Didn't know that's Amiria Baraka's work, featured, until checking for a link to it here at YouTube. Haven't heard of that poet since picking up a blue book of his from the Fresno County Library, more than a less than good decade ago. Books. Concrete Poetry. Afro-Dadaism. Peace.
Awesome video, by the way.
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@NOTgarycoleman then you are no better than they... that same judgmental attitude is whats keeping you down. only you can free your mind.
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All white people are spiritually illiterate.
I wish they'd never taken us out of Africa. We were so happy and would be better off over there. better than the spiritually dead whiteness of America. Peace! Salaam!
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Brilliant Video. Wow. Im from southeast PA and this video is touching...on many levels...personal and non-personal.
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Wow this was great! I always listened to this song, and it's nice seeing it in a visual way
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wow... this adaptation is just as haunting as the poem. excellent work!
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P.S. since, like most citizens of any polity, you probably disagree with certain aspects of the society in which you were born, shouldn't you also go somewhere that exemplifies your ideals?
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These comments are simply fantastic. To those who GOT it, thank you for sharing your thoughts! Anyone I offended... ***shrugs*** EHHHH, it's observational artistic expression folks!!! So make a video response already lol (^_^)
greenbryano 5 months ago