St Thomas 60th Carnival Celebration Pictures Part 1
St Thomas 60th Carnival Celebration culminated this past weekend, and all we can say is that it was nice. The parade didn’t end until 9:00 pm that night and showcased costumes, presentation, and mas that left many saying Carnival was good this year. Below is part one in a series of imagery highlighting some of the 60 troupes that took part in this year’s celebration.
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StThomas 60th Carnival Celebration Pictures Part 1
Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins).
Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.
In theaters October 28, 2011!
The Rum Diary Starring Johnny Depp
The Rum Diary Movie
The search is now on for the Caribbean’s Next Top Model from 35 territories across the region! Casting begins on July 19th to August 23rd, 2011, under the vision and supervision of the host Wendy Fitzwilliam. Do you have what it takes to be the Caribbean’s Next Top Model? Enter Now!
CARIBBEAN’s NEXT TOP MODEL is the Caribbean version of the hit reality series AMERICA’s NEXT TOP MODEL and we are giving you an opportunity to compete for a grand prize which includes a modeling contract with a top agency or management company. Produced by Prestige International Inc under the direction of Executive Producers Ian M.S. Royer and Dionyse Ftizwilliam under the guidance of CBS International . The production is set to begin on September 5, 2011 and will be airing 11 episodes on WSEETV.
Casting
We will be looking for young women from Anguilla , Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonair, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands , Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guyana, Grenada Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St Bartholomew, St Eustatius, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos Island.
St. Thomas Carnival Pictures – St. Thomas USVI Carnival Pictures pt.2
All photos are courtesy of Selwin “Boom” Gumbs of Boom Flicks Photography. You may contact Selwin via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SelwynBoom for his services.
St. Thomas Carnival Pictures – St. Thomas USVI Carnival Pictures pt.2
Rock City Carnival 2011 Pictures
St. Thomas USVI Carnival Photos
St. Thomas Carnival Pictures – St. Thomas USVI Carnival Pictures pt.1
Yes, we are little late with the photos of this year’s St. Thomas aka Rock City carnival celebration. Here are a few courtesy of Boom Flicks Photography.
All photos are courtesy of Selwin “Boom” Gumbs of Boom Flicks Photography. You may contact Selwin via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SelwynBoom for his services.
St. Thomas Carnival Pictures – St. Thomas USVI Carnival Pictures pt.1
Rock City Carnival 2011 Pictures
St. Thomas USVI Carnival Photos
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GQ (Gentlemen’s Quarterly) recently presented a slideshow tribute to Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley, and few other Reggae artist from back in the day. Do watch the “style and fashion” in some of the pictures below.
Pictures courtesy of GAB Archive/Redferns, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Peter Mazel/Sunshine/Retna Ltd, Richard Creamer/Retna Ltd, Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns,
CNN) — One of the few Cuban commodities you can buy in the United States is art — and the place to get it is Miami.
For years a hub for Hispanic communities in the United States, Miami is now an important gateway for the new art of Cuba — and Latin America more generally.
Now in its ninth year, Art Basel Miami Beach, is the city’s premier art fair and each year it invites galleries from all over the world to exhibit and sell modern and contemporary art.
A short plane ride away from, say, Brazil, with its rising economy, the fair is increasingly drawing Latin American galleries showcasing exciting new work, as well as international galleries wooing the continent’s wealthy elite in the hope of a sale.
“At a time when the economies of Western Europe and North America are pretty shaky, and Brazil is just booming, galleries need new collectors to keep things moving,” said Marc Spiegler, co-director of Art Basel.
He added that Art Basel Miami Beach, the North American sister fair of the esteemed Swiss art fair, was chosen for its proximity to Latin America.
It has taken a while for the art market there to grow, he said, but the current economic situation in Latin America is helping to speed things up.
Indeed, sales at the fair, which ran over four days at the beginning of December, indicate that global interest in both modern and contemporary Cuban art is growing.
Cernuda Arte, a Coral Gables, Florida gallery specializing in art from Cuba exhibiting at the fair for the first time this year, made a record sale of a 1944 painting by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for $3 million — to a Cuban-American collector.
Unlike other commodities, art is exempt from the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and can move comparatively freely between the two nations.
Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, who presented a floor-based ceramic work for the booth of the Swiss Beyeler Foundation, was also a talking point at the fair.
Milhazes, whose paintings are bright explorations of the flora and fauna of her home country, set a record in 2008 for a Brazilian artist with a painting that sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York for over $1 million.
She said that when she first started painting in the early 1990s there was little in the way of an art scene in Brazil. Now, with its flourishing economy, all that is changing.
As for her auction success, she said: “It’s a big achievement for everybody in my country.” Read the rest of this entry »
Ghanaian aspiring model Nana Afua Antwi, female pictured above, was recently crowned the female Top Model of Colour UK for 2010.
Top Model of Colour UK is the biggest modelling competition for Models of Colour (models of African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Oriental, Asian and mixed heritage ethnicity), in the world and is open to male and female contestants. Top Model of Colour is currently held in the UK, Gambia, Holland and Nigeria and will also soon be in Ghana, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the USA.
TMC gives models the chance to gain experience of the modelling industry and the possibility of being discovered and going on to become supermodels.
Video Courtesy of Fashionfinest with footage provided by Butterfly Models
2011 Calendar for A Great Cause…helping establish library projects throughout Jamaica.
The Following Is From The Help Jamaica.org Website
History
In October 2007 during our stay in Kingston we met the founder of the Trenchtown Reading Centre (TRC), Roslyn Ellison from Canada. Amazed by the concept we went down in the next days and we were overwhelmed by what we saw: a light inviting room with fans, bookshelves with an amazing collection of new and suitable books for children and adults, related to the life and surrounding of the people. Caribbean, African American, African children books, biographies, nature and animal books, scientific literature, music books – a fascinating collection for various levels of age and knowledge you wouldn’t expect in a library in one of Kingston’s most notorious ghettos!
Immediately we were convinced that we wanted to support the Reading Centre, which is a private and non-profit organisation, build from the ground up together with the community. We kept on visiting it and found out how they got started in 1993, how they work, which problems the institution faces and we soon started to think about how we can help the TRC…
Back in Germany our enthusiasm was met by others and we founded the registered non-profit organisation HELP Jamaica! e.V. This organisation legally set the foundation to raise funds to help the TRC. Encouraged by the success the vision of establishing more similar libraries and education centres all over Jamaica developed. We will continue to support the TRC and additionally started to work towards building our own HELP Jamaica!-operated education centre in the near future!
In March 2009 we founded and registered a local branch of HELP Jamaica! in Jamaica. This non-profit organisation shall first and foremost direct and guide the implementation of our aims in Jamaica and secondly be involved in raising funds with the organisation of local charity events and the acquisition of local sponsors and companies to support the work of HELP Jamaica!
Right now we are in the final process of registering a next branch of HELP Jamaica! in the US and are approaching the step of building our first own HELP Jamaica-operated center in the Community of ‘Cassava Piece’ in Kingston.
Check out the projects section for updates and to see what we are currently working on and which future projects we plan to establish.
