Since we are on a roll with Woodstock, Cape Town, here’s a profile of graffiti artist Freddy Sam (government name: Ricky-Lee Gordon) by the same people who brought you the shaky cam and hyper-bright colors. We like it. The art and the film.
Below are images (from Freddy Sam’s Flickr stream) of some of the work featured in the video:
What’s happening in (Cape Town’s neighborhood) Woodstock that makes local hipsters flood the place? The speed at which parts of this area are gentrifying is dazzling. But hipsters also shoot nice images. Cue: shaky cam and hyper-bright colors. – Tom Devriendt
Just like new Zealand
It’s nice to see the odd
Black face now and again
* Haiku by Cape Town poet, Gus Ferguson, on the (not so new anymore) “Neighborhoods Market” (UPDATE: It’s actually the Neighborgoods Market) at the Old Biscuit Mill shop complex in gentrifying Woodstock, an inner city suburb of South Africa’s second city, Cape Town.
