Music video for by vagabond

Shot over two rainy days, 'Something Beautiful' is a poem is by Abiodun Oyewole, a original member of The Last Poets. i wanted it to seem as though it was the rain that was hampering his ability to say something beautiful but as the video progresses it’s the rain that is beautiful and it’s Abiodun struggling with bad thoughts, bad feelings and unresolved history.

DP Jeff “AK” Akers did a fantastic job shooting the film. He found ways to make beauty from the mundane. He took drain pipes, reflections, graffiti, dark skies, men pushing a shopping cart and transformed them using a delicate balance of composition, light and darkness, so that each shot evoked a kind of fragile tenderness… i’ve been working with Jeff for many years, he has a keen eye and resourcefulness for stripping away the artifice and getting to the essence of things…