Carnival
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25/01/10 22:59 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 715 is the story
of how soca star Mr
Vybe leverages social media to advance his career and connect with
his fans.
BitDepth 669 posted
02/03/09 19:34 Filed in: Website Updates
Updates to Tribe Gallery
27/02/09 19:09 Filed in: Website Updates
Got to
stop working while I'm half asleep.
Failed to recover some lost data from the Tribe story, but I did manage to fix the oversharpening on the Tribe gallery.
Much of the project is shot existing light with high ISO settings, so too much sharpening makes the images particularly cruddy.
I've also upped the resolution to 900 pixels as a bonus.
Added a text page with the copy that has accompanied all nine of the stories and revamped the design of the pages.
Failed to recover some lost data from the Tribe story, but I did manage to fix the oversharpening on the Tribe gallery.
Much of the project is shot existing light with high ISO settings, so too much sharpening makes the images particularly cruddy.
I've also upped the resolution to 900 pixels as a bonus.
Added a text page with the copy that has accompanied all nine of the stories and revamped the design of the pages.
Local Lives 09 goes live
25/02/09 11:04 Filed in: Website Updates
The
ninth installment of Local Lives is now available. The print
version appeared in the Trinidad Guardian today and an extended
gallery of images selected for the story with full captions is
available here.
The printed version, with an excellent design by Kevan Gibbs is available for download as a PDF here.
There's a bit of background into the story of this installment of Local Lives, which took a year to produce here.
The printed version, with an excellent design by Kevan Gibbs is available for download as a PDF here.
There's a bit of background into the story of this installment of Local Lives, which took a year to produce here.
Viey La Cou series begins
14/02/09 00:10 Filed in: Photography
The Viey La Cou series begins today
with Dame Lorraine. I took extensive notes on these photographs in
the late 1980's and have since lost them. If anyone recognises the
players, please let me know so that I can put names to the
faces.
In the 20 years since I shot these photos, most of these old players have since left the stage and younger players with more enthusiasm and far less history have taken their place. I was fortunate enough to have the chance to capture these images when so many of these characters were still being played by performers who had been doing the roles for decades.
I'll be posting the complete series after they appear on the front page of this website in the Virtual Gallery and putting a photographer's note in the Photo Blog.
In the 20 years since I shot these photos, most of these old players have since left the stage and younger players with more enthusiasm and far less history have taken their place. I was fortunate enough to have the chance to capture these images when so many of these characters were still being played by performers who had been doing the roles for decades.
I'll be posting the complete series after they appear on the front page of this website in the Virtual Gallery and putting a photographer's note in the Photo Blog.
More Mas Medicine
11/02/08 19:40 Filed in: Carnival
Power of the Super Niche
08/02/08 23:42 Filed in: Carnival
I've been following some of the
Carnival bloggers after getting some really valuable links off a
few of the sites for the Making Mas series.
Several of these sites are really focused on the business of getting ready for Carnival Monday and Tuesday and one of the fascinating themes that cropped up in the week before Carnival was the disparity between costumes as delivered and as advertised.
Two particularly thorough and interesting entries appeared on the blogs of Saucy Diva and Carnival Jumbie.
After covering Carnival for almost a quarter of a century, an issue like this simply never occurred to me. Have a look at what the committed masquerader has to say. These are blogs that deserve to be signed.
Several of these sites are really focused on the business of getting ready for Carnival Monday and Tuesday and one of the fascinating themes that cropped up in the week before Carnival was the disparity between costumes as delivered and as advertised.
Two particularly thorough and interesting entries appeared on the blogs of Saucy Diva and Carnival Jumbie.
After covering Carnival for almost a quarter of a century, an issue like this simply never occurred to me. Have a look at what the committed masquerader has to say. These are blogs that deserve to be signed.
Carnival Congratulations
08/02/08 23:42 Filed in: Carnival
San Fernando bandleaders Ivan and Wendy Kalicharan (MM6) won the South Band of the Year title. De BOSS (MM7) took the Lil Hart award for Small Band of the Year, closely followed by Tribal Connection (MM7) in second place. Wade Madray tied for third place in the King of Carnival competition.
View Making Mas online here.
The Frenchman and the downloads
08/01/08 00:53 Filed in: BitDepth+
Tribe tech
03/12/07 20:44 Filed in: BitDepth+
Losing the beat
20/02/07 20:42 Filed in: Carnival
Timing the riddem
20/02/07 17:07 Filed in: Carnival
The Rhythm of the Road
20/02/07 12:58 Filed in: Carnival
What happened to J'Ouvert?
19/02/07 07:56 Filed in: Carnival
In just
a few years, the start of Carnival Monday has dwindled to a few
committed masqueraders rolling around on the ground on South
Quay... Read More...
Medium-size Sunday
19/02/07 01:02 Filed in: Carnival
Carnival on TV
25/01/07 19:40 Filed in: Carnival
If the Government's two
television stations can broadcast Carnival for free, who is going
to buy the rights they are advertising for sale?
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