If you've got a thing for pictures, give Joanne Johnson a hail, she's looking for volunteer photographers:
Check the Smelta Karavan website, or call Joanne at 629.6582/ 355.6930.A mobile unit will tour our country from June to October this year to host community discussions about environmental awareness. The intention is to gather consciousness from the people of T&T towards protecting our land against the proposed smelter and to set precedents for further indiscriminate industrialization.
- You can offer as little or as much time as you feel joyfully willing and able
- Get one other person to contribute in some way
- A camera will be provided
My boy Colin did this shoot in Tobago on the weekend. Pretty straightforward stuff, 'cept the picture doesn't show the chickens hanging out in the drain, or the fat man/crazy man directing traffic, or the amazing heritage buildings that will soon be torn down and replaced by gaudy celebrations of 21st century island architecture.
Long sigh.
Went to check out the horse racing down at Santa Rosa on Easter Monday. It's like Zen for old people, lots of women in Bad Ideas and men in colourful shirts that their daughters bought for them in Miami. But it was a truly amazing experience, they even managed to have a really bad cover band that sang everything from Michael Jackson to Chaka Demus & Pliers. Unfortunately we got there late, but here is a poorly composed picture of one horse beating all the other horses by a whole lot.
I'm going to be playing DJ tomorrow night, working the iTunes to go with a selection from Alex of recent pics. It's at 'Conversations in the Yard', a weekly event from 12 the band. If you haven't been as yet it's a bit like going round to a friend's house who has set up a bar in their backyard. v.chilled. Location is Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook. Opposite side of the street from Brooklyn Bar, about three doors down heading East. From 8:30ish.More artists turned iPod Deejays? Lookout, world.
$30 for an ICC rum and coke? Where there's a will, there's a way....
I took this pic with my phone last week friday at the Atlantic Avenue train stop in BK . It was posted by the fire department and was on the inside of one of those glass fire panels. I think the fire department needs to either use spell check in MS Word or just hire ppl who can f...ing spell.What they NEED to do is stop hiring "individuals between the ages of 18 to 40 years old with at least 3 O'Levels." Aww shit, this isn't in Trinidad. Well just stop hiring those damned immigrants then.
Check it out.I just wanted to personally remind you that NEXT THURSDAY is the first New York City gallery exhibition of my work REMNANTS: After The Storm. It means a lot to me to have my friends there so please mark this on your calendar. The exhibition is titled AFTER and was curated by John A. Bennette. It includes my good friend Will Steacy as well as Radik Skrivanek. Please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues.
WHEN: THURSDAY MARCH 29TH, 6-8PM (small after party to follow)
WHERE: PEER GALLERY 526 West 26th Street bet 1oth & 11th, 2nd Floor (down the hallway to the left)
Courtesy of Trinidadian photographer Abigail Hadeed.
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