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Talking viral video on Gayelle
On viral video, Gayelledotcom, August 23 from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Talking about viral videos and local marketing efforts on Gayelle the channel's morning show.
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Outlish gallery refreshed
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Great Fete galleries on Flickr
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The coup attempt, 20 years later
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Aida review posted
New images in the Big Folio
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Outlish gallery updated
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On Errol Jones
Local Lives 12 posted
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Gallery updates
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On Gayelle.com talking politics
Bloggers talk politics on the Gayelle.com show from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Discussing my political
blog posts with host Cedriann Martin and guest Raymond
Ramcharitar.
Both are here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/PM_plan.html and here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
Related...
Patrick's Plan
The Morning Edition after
Absolute Political Punditry
The Virtual Town Hall
Patrick's Plan
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The Morning Edition after...
Morning Edition - Calling the 2010 election from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
A brief telephone interview with the Morning Edition's Andy Johnson about my blog post on May 19 calling the T&T election five full days before the polls opened. View the post here: http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
Related...
Talking politics
Patrick's Plan
The Morning Edition after
Absolute Political Punditry
The Virtual Town Hall
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Absolute political punditry
Since the original post, I've added notes on the winners, the missed calls and the margins of the wins.
Read More...
New portrait gallery in Big Folio
Mama dis is Jazz review posted
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Kenisha and the wireless triggers
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The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
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Gayelle.com interview
Mark Lyndersay on Gayelle.com from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
My appearance as the first guest on the first show of Gayelle's new morning show, Gayelle.com which aggregates information from Internet contributors and sources.
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JAOTG 2010 review posted
New galleries posted in Stock photography
T&T Jazz Festival Review
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No Behaviour Show podcast posted
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No Behaviour at all
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Kitch in Carnival
Ten years after his sudden passing, it seems that there is much to lament today in the loss of the prodigious talent of Aldwyn Roberts, who wrote, sang and worked in his chosen profession for more than 60 years after getting his first break at a tamboo bamboo calypso tent in 1937.
In an era in which the successful careers of most performers in the soca arena are measured in months and there is little interest in becoming the kind of well-rounded musician, arranger, promoter and extraordinary composer that Kitchener was, it’s worth remembering the sheer scope of the man’s legacy and the enormity of his contribution to the Carnival landscape.
The man was no kaiso elitist. In the England years, between 1948 and 1963, Roberts worked his behind off, building his reputation and a small calypso empire fuelled by frequent performances, a nightclub and investments in properties even as he sent songs back to Trinidad and Tobago to let his fans know that he still had his sting. ‘Nora Nora Nora’ and ‘Trouble in Arima’ were songs from this period, music strong enough to succeed without the man present to sing them.
On his return to this country in 1963, he immediately staked his claim on the Road March, the anthem of each year’s Carnival celebration and the most forthright expression of a People’s Choice award anywhere in the world.
His combination of topicality, wit, and astonishing arranging skills landed him the award ten times between 1963’s ‘The Road’ and ‘Flag woman’ in 1976.
By then, the musical emphasis of Carnival on the road had changed and the impact of the steelbands for whom his music was so emphatically composed diminished in importance on the streets, replaced by brass bands and music trucks as portable generators finally became small enough to be practical on the road.
He remained, however, the pan arranger’s darling, his music gliding off the shimmering surfaces of hammered steel with a sweetness that has rarely been matched then or since.
Between ‘Mama dis is mas’ in 1964 and ‘The Guitar Pan’ in 1997, steelbands were victorious in the Panorama competitions with his music an astonishing 18 times.
While servicing his existing constituencies, Kitchener the composer proved a restless, ready observer of the music around him. He incorporated jazz credibly in ’12 bar Joan’ created one of the great lavway laments in ‘The Carnival is over,’ and cemented the relevance of soca for disdainful calypsonians with ‘Sugar Bum Bum.’
Roberts was a calypsonian’s calypsonian, and his Calypso Revue was nursery, school and finally home to a surprising number of today’s calypsonians who got their start at the tent and remained loyally with Kitch after they became successful.
In 1964, its first year of existence, four calypsonians from the Revue competed in the Calypso Monarch finals; Kitch, Nap Hepburn, Bomber, and Blakie, with Bomber taking the crown.
In 2000, after his passing, the Dimanche Gras stage was also commanded by a startling percentage of cast members of his tent, including Sugar Aloes, Crazy, Pink Panther and De Fosto, each of whom performed in a red suit and hat styled after Kitchener’s trademark stage uniform.
Lord Kitchener may be lost to us, but his influence and legacy remain. His son, Kernel, has grown into a potent musical force and serves as a composer, musical director and as a remarkable arranger for Machel Montano’s HD family.
He is father’s son, but he is also his own man, adapting his rhythmic talents to the fast moving world of modern soca and creating, among other songs, the JW & Blaze hit Palance, which musically riffs off a bridge formulated in the Brassorama competition to move from one song to another during the competition.
The enormity of Lord Kitchener’s influence on the music of Trinidad and Tobago is still to be fully evaluated. In 1996, an attempt was made at Queen’s Hall as an Honour Performance of the man’s work was mounted by a virtual who’s who of contemporary performers, from the boy group Blak Mayl to the Marionettes Chorale.
The lessons of Kitchener’s life offer rich example for today’s calypso and soca performers. This was a man who was, at every stage of his career, a remarkable mix of entrepreneur and artist, a composer, arranger and singer who accepted everything as an influence and created something unique out of all that he saw and heard.
Aldwyn Roberts was adaptable but firm in his style – there was never a Kitch calypso that sounded like anyone else’s – and he remained vital and relevant throughout six decades of the artform’s development.
His was a daunting example, a mountainous legacy worth climbing in deed.
Drumquestra review posted
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Mining a lost archive
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The Local Lives process
That Mairoon Ali photo
On the HaHaHa productions portrait from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Host Andy Johnson and guests (and subjects) Penelope Spencer and Nikki Crosby chat on the TV6 Morning Edtion show about the portrait I did of the group to launch my work on Womanwise for the Sunday Guardian.
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CNMG talk on technology
First Up technology discussion from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Derren Joseph for asking me to participate!
Photographing Debbie Ali
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Giselle, finally
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Diamond cover
Lystra, decades later
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Career contemplation videocast
2012 review
Womanwise Virtual Gallery
Shoot Mystie for me, said the editor
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Yes, I get to shoot Wilhelmina models
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Destra in da house
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DEW appreciation speech
MATT statement on proposed Bagoo ban
It was with shock and dismay that the media association learned of the recommendations of the Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives with regard to Mr Andre Bagoo of the Newsday newspaper.
On finding Mr Bagoo guilty of an offence, the committee recommended not only that the newspaper publish an apology, but also that Mr Bagoo be banned from the media gallery of Parliament until the end of the session.
Matt considers this an unjustifiably harsh and highly unusual punishment.
Mr Bagoo had been accused by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal of committing a contempt of Parliament by publishing the proceedings of the Privileges Committee in another matter before those proceedings had been reported to the House.
The association admits that this publication by Newsday was indeed in breach of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
However, in previous cases involving breaches of privilege--including the case prematurely reported by Mr Bagoo, which involved Udecott--once the accused party apologises for the offence, he or she is almost invariably let off and no further action taken. It should be noted that the editor in chief of Newsday, Ms Therese Mills, appeared before the committee and apologised for breaching the Standing Orders.
In addition, in a minority report, three members of the committee disagreed with the recommendations and argued that banning a reporter contravened the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press. They asked that members of the House reject either the entire report or that recommendation.
Matt endorses this call, and now awaits with apprehension the committee’s findings in the case of two other journalists also sent to the Privileges Committee.
In light of the recommendations in the case of Mr Bagoo, Matt notes with grave concern that a pattern may be emerging of attempted intimidation, by way of the Privileges Committee, of journalists whose reporting may have embarrassed or offended the Government.
Windows 7 launch
10 ways to improve your photography
Womanwise gone wrong
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Photographing Carolyn Pasea
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The Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Surveyors has posted a note about my talk here...
Presenter notes for these talks are available here...
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Sitewide search now available
Tidied some of the commess I have going on in the two sidebars on this page, so hopefully it will load without timing out on those IE browsers behind corporate firewalls. I'd appreciate some feedback on that too.
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Under your skin review posted
Local Lives 10, The Children's Ramayana posted
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
TDC Divali Competition
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...

