Richard's Shark and Bake - Bizaare Foods

People want to experience life like fast food, sweet and salty

For all of you who get the station Travel and Living, you may be familiar with Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern . His show deals with his going to a country and really going off the beaten track, trying the less familiar cuisine. The show has interested me because I am always curious to see what the countries he has visited have to offer. I also realized that he had come to Trinidad and Tobago from an image at the introduction of the show. That show was finally on the air today. I missed a bit of it, but was able to see him at Maracas beach having a bake and shark, in St. James having a Roti and a Doubles, at San Juan market buying callallo and Down the Islands eating the heart of a fish that was blurred out to the viewers for some reason that was not clear? I am always very curious to see what people say about Trinidad and Tobago.

Not because I want to see their view so much as I am interested to see how accurate they are. It is then that I can gauge whether they are equally true about other places they visit. It is a quirk of mine for sure, and has no basis in fact. I assume that it is a reaction to my island. Bizaare Foods did not necessarily show the food of Trinidad and Tobago as being strange, after all, he did not go for our ‘wild meats for example. But it was a good attempt at trying to give people a sense of what our eating habits are all about. - Adele

When you come out from the sea and you’ll hungry.....anything taste good

What makes Richard’s Shark and Bake so popular is the amount of condiments he generously serves to his costumers. People like to get their money’s worth if between the shark and the bake, it can be topped with other edible things. Mr. Zimmern describes it as, “locals like them smothered in a variety of sauces”. The sandwich should be consumed as quickly as possible because there is the tendency of the contents sapping into the bread.

The best quick food in Trinidad is Doubles and in Tobago, curry crab and dumpling but it is rather tedious to eat. - thebookmann

The spirit world of Art

Through history people have been afraid of the powers from artists as they believed their recording could bring the under-spirit world to life.

If you place your hands over your eyes and keep them there for sometime, you should experience a hallucinating state producing patterns of black and white checkerboard vibrations or black random spots that fade to white. Remember this.

Today, the BBC aired the programme “Imagination” on the subject of visual symbols and its connection to the origins of our civilization over thirty thousand years ago. Derived from the oldest paintings in the history of mankind, the daughter of archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1879 made a discovery which unlocked man’s mystic past. The young girl set eyes on the Altamira cave in Spain exposing a gallery of prehistoric paintings of various animal species combined with geometric patterns and shapes. Archaeologists were puzzled over the patterns and the documentary tries to unlock the secret of its meaning. What were these prehistoric artist's references ?

In its synopsis, the narrator Nigel Spivey attempts to decode the mystery by comparing the symbols found in Bushmen paintings on cliffs in South Africa. The answer, he theorizes may be the experiences of death in a ritual communal trance to heal the sick with help from spirits in the underworld. The tribal artists represented the moment by reproducing the spiritual outcome as a visual anecdote of geometric patterns superimposed over the ailing livings. This trance, between life and death scholars hypothesize, is the hallucinating state in which these unrecognized patterns were induced in the mind and then transferred into paintings as with those patterns discovered in Europe. Yet these geometric shapes are an illusion in the brain due to the deprivation of light and by simply covering your eyes for a short time, you can see why.

Then paintings moved into sculpture and from sculpture it brought meaning by its symbols and cuneiform to communicate.

When cave paintings stopped over twelve thousand years ago, the image transformed three-dimensionally and thus set the genesis of civilization and were humans began to cultivate wheat and domesticate animals. And as Mr. Spivey concludes, our world as we see it could not exists if not for our ancestors who had a revelation with lines, shapes and colours. They could capture the world as they experienced it.

In all, these prehistoric artists gave a visual narrative of their daily life and painted their cognitive understanding of it unto the surfaces of walls. And like oral traditions in storytelling and folklore, the mystery of the underworld, of bravery, cowardliness, of life, death. It just might be the basic survival instincts Homo Sapiens taught their offspring through etching, elaborate markings or calling. Yet the puzzling question of them all is of man and his gift to reproduce on a physical plane from memory an image whatever he observes? See the Bushman cave art as thebookmann header

Scream your name over and over - T&T

Why we love who we are - The linguistics of spoken West Indian English.

For many years in Trinidad and Tobago there was a local television show called "Scouting for Talent". It was produced by the TV personality Holly Betaudier, his objective was to audition people who had some sort of entertaining ability. Once a week participants trotted out the best renditions of mostly popular American tunes. An interpretation of a Stevie Wonder or a Whitney Houston's " I would always love you" would be attempted with all the inner passions of the individual. Occasionally, a contestant would perform a modern dance routine, or play a composition on our national musical instrument, the steel pan. Trinidadians should remember the woman in the tight stretched white spandex pants who danced to a ballet wearing a pair of roller skates, the man who spitted out gum on stage before belting out his song or the Indian girl and black man's dance routine. He dressed as a vampire and she as a coffin, It was amazing. What made these appearances so memorable were how confident the participants presented themselves to a live audience.

This is a video clip from the local music TV station called Synergy, and the artist is Nicole De Coteau filmed at the Chaguaramas Peninsular, Trinidad. Ms. Coteau is going all out with her music genre that really can't be explained, but she is surely supported by her entourage of admirers that groove to her tune. The singer exhibits a tone in which Trinidadians and Tobagoians call pure self-confidence. Her temperament equals the level of a Scouting of Talent contestant. -thebookmann

Put your arms up upon meh shoulder baby
Hold meh tight squeeze meh sugar honey
Let de whole night completely satisfy meh
Swee lovin gets meh delighted
Yuh de one to get meh excited
With wine and roses and candle lighted

Swee lovin to satisfy meh
Swee lovin yuh ca deny meh
Bring yuh lov into meh baby
Make no mistake de tem-perature rising

Scream your name over and over
Take meh now I ca wait no longar
Splashing and pleasure make meh perspire
Oh baby yuh dis bend meh like wire

The Sopranos (Nothing Happened)

Dynasty Chutney

Rum is my lover - Perpetuating a stereotype

These stills are taken from a local television show that promotes the culture of Trinidad and Tobago. Once a week or so, it slots in a chutney video count down in a cheesy commentary format.

Making low-budget Soca Chutney videos as such seen on Synergy TV requires the following; Rum, a river, a beach, roll-on-roll off cars, Indian dancers in costume, wedding guests, family and friends,feuded neighbors, a iron pot for a cookup, domestic animals such as fowls (cocks) or cats (catt) and more rum to incite fights and cutlass chopping.

The star Ravi Bissambhar from the video clip is a bit of a celebrity himself, and as he was interviewed by the VJ, a older woman kept accosting him then uttered the words, "I want to rape yuh." One wonders why it was not edited out. And although the melody is about Rum drinking, in part of the video (the river scene) it shows Mr. Bissambhar holding up a bottle of scotch. ??? There are the lyrics from song which, Ravi Bissambhar sings with great passion

Rum is meh lover and I don cyare, so we drinking today and we drinking forever, Akela hoon main

But I don cyare what people say, Ah drinking today and we drinking forever, ah Tequila or Beer

Rum kill meh muda

Rum kill meh fada

Rum kill meh whole family

Rum kill meh broda

Rum kill meh sista

Now it want to come and kill me

But I don cyare what people say, oh ah drinking today and ah drinking forever, Akela hoon main

For readers unfamiliar with Trinidad and Tobago, the backdrop is Mayaro beach and the video is a broad generalization of desires and wants of East Indians. The whole idea of promoting alcoholism with East Indians equals the vulgarity of mainstream music which perpetuates the stereotype of young black men and women.

Note: Akela hoon main is Hindi for "I am alone"


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See Ravi Bissambhar as thebookmann header.

The enemy is ourselves - Heroes

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. - Andrew Marvell

If you believe in your destiny or the power of art to predict the future, you should take a closer look at sculpture Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian.(left) It is a self cast of a New York–based artist Michael Richards who depicted himself as a martyr pierced by the props of World War 2 fighters. That eventful morning, Mr. Richards was in his studio on the 92th floor.

It makes you wonder when fiction merges with reality, and how violated America still feels from the 2001 attacks in New York. This is brought forth by a popular science fiction television show called Heroes, with all the trapping of a mutant, Hiro Hakamura who is on his mission to save New York city from its apocalypse "Boom". His vision of the city's pending future can be changed, he believes, if he eliminates a part of himself by killing his all encompassing powerful and zealous foe, Sylar. This is a blissful thoughts of ifs, only if a Hero such as he existed on the morning, Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 to stop the apocalypse, and order of the world as we see it today, 2007, for better or for worst, If only.

One can never be careful enough when dealing with the lives of other people. Once, as a boy, I saw a spider about to kill a wasp which was caught in its web. I said to my self the spider is going to hurt that wasp. so I took a large stone...and then to my horror, I had killed them both. - Pablo Picasso

So the age old story continues about the innate gene that makes all of us do the things we do. Self - preservation and the powerful instinct to protect our survival at all costs and follow the order of things though war and genocide. And if we stop and think what our emeries are thinking, it is basically the same. If you have watched most of the episodes, one striking factor is that many of the scenes mirror the attacks and its aftermath to guard itself for those trying to destroy it. America as a country and peoples are suspicious as to who they are, and who they should all be.

The final Heroes episode which will be aired on NBC, 05.20.007 will seek its fate.
You can't predict the future because it already exists - thebookmann

Blurring entertainment - Cho Seung-hui

You say that is this is the way to be.....then you complain when I become it

Tonight as NBC Nightly News ended, I watched with horror and revulsion as Brian Williams showed footage of the Virginia gunman unleashing his hateful rage to a camera. This was shown along with many still shots. As the images were presented I found myself become more and more worried. Then as the film footage was seen, my feelings were confirmed. The airing of such imagery is a grave mistake. This package, this' killing manifesto' is something that should not be seen by the general public at all!

What was concerning me as I watched is something that I have seen for too long in my own little island as regards to presenting news on crime. Somehow the media thinks that it is entitled to show gore and carnage as though it were some sort of entertainment, and it is helped by the fact that just as one would look at a television show, the news also has advertising interspersed between the slots for news, weather and sports. This cannot be helped, yet it can blur the line between what is real and what is not. This tragedy is too devastating to handle imagery of the other side at this time. It is irresponsible to show the killer as this media house has. They have played into his sick little cold, dead hands.

All people in the media should be able to see and read in the package this man FedExed to the television station, the slickness, the glorification of violence that the killer is promoting. This is not a movie! The thirty two people killed are not going to get up from their death poses and walk off. What happened on Monday was real, and the killer should not be given the same sort of press as the victims at all! What is also horribly, horribly wrong here is that this killer has calculated his presentation and I am terribly afraid that he has successfully set a bar for future nutcases to come. The world has not seen the last of people like this, and all that we all can do now is hope that those who can read the early signs can be listened to. -Adele

Nappy Headed what? - Don Imus

Thirteen Roman letters - Friends may lead you but can't bring you back...

There have been moments in television history where you wish that the person had the opportunity to redo the moment, O.J Simpson in his Bronco, Princess Diana as she leaves the Ritz in Paris, Don Imus’s statement last week. What makes the comment particularly bad is its casualness. It was said as an afterthought because he assumed that his listeners would just ‘get it.’

There is so much to look at with this latest in a very long line of prominent people in American society saying hateful, angry things and getting caught on tape. The good thing is that these moments are recorded and replayed, and represent proof that seems indisputable to the viewer. However the very fact that these moments can be recalled and picked over is the rub.

I feel badly for Mr. Imus, he has been in radio for thirty years. I’m sure that he never thought that his career would end as it has. The media is so age conscious, that older people need good representation. But with that said, the belief is that he should have known better. Mr. Imus has unwittingly started a debate that touches on racial and sexist slurs. He is not the first person in media to use such slurs, he is simply collateral damage. Many things concern me about this incident. I recalled Janet Jackson saying when she recorded her album Control in the 80’s that her producers’ called her ‘bitch’ and she used to cry about it until she realized that it was said with affection. Now I don’t know whether to be more alarmed that she would consider the term as affectionate or that they would.

Years later the rapper Snoop Dog came to the defense of calling women bitches and ho’s, saying that some women deserve to be called the names, and some women were called affectionately. Is this black on black verbal crime? But let us look deeper. This year the movie Norbit with Eddie Murphy playing many roles, included his portrayal of an obese black woman, I found that to be offensive, but it was a hit! I chose not to see that movie. There are many really offensive, toilet humour films, television shows and moments on all media, and that shall not abate any time soon. Whenever I complain about these things, I remind myself that I am not the audience these forms of entertainment seek. I think that this is important to remember, although this may not make the situation right.

There is also the very real concern that Mr. Imus was repeating, like a child repeats, a curse word, and thought that it was acceptable. Why did he find this acceptable? I believe that Mr. Imus represents the truth of his country. Americans say racist things all the time. I shall go further, in all countries where there is diversity there is the tendency toward misunderstanding another persons’ culture, and awkward comments are inevitable. It is not enough to rail against what Mr. Imus said. It is more important to look at and understand why and how such comments are born, grow and flourish despite huge strides in society by people of all races.

One of Mr. Imus’s first statements, post slur was that the black community use such language. To me that comment was as explosive as the first statement. I wondered whether he was trying to say, like a child again, hey, they’re doing it, so why not! Now isn’t that just what’s wrong with everything in the world at the moment. So many people are going down the wrong path just copying the worst influences because they just don’t know better, or feel that it’s acceptable.

This is a tricky statement I know, because the question then becomes what is acceptable behaviour? Anna Nichole Smith for example could be seen as completely inappropriate for television. Yet she was not, even after her death, when several men came forward to claim fatherhood of her seven month old daughter, no one called her the ‘h’ word. People seem to like watching a train wreck and then they act surprised when they see more than they want to.

The black community in America must look at Mr. Imus’s statement very closely. After coming so far from slavery and Jim Crow, the African American community still has issues that cause great concern, even if the claim is that certain language is acceptable within that community. Perhaps it is the very relaxing of such language that should be looked at. For example, how come the word honkey, quite racist when I was a child seems to have no power, but the word nigger still cuts to the bone. Is it just possible that such a word is just hurtful no matter the context? What would Richard Pryor say? He used such language to empower himself, the black community and comedy for legions of comics to follow.

I was disappointed that of all of the discussions on the topic, there is very little acceptance by the black American public to look inwardly at the misogynistic and racist language that hip hop culture propagates, and its impact on all of society. There are many aspects to this art form and it must acknowledge its weaknesses.

There is also the aspect of money. Many mainstream products are not shy about incorporating Hip hop elements into their product for sale ability to a specific demographic. It is amazing how many do this. Hip Hop is mainstream and thus, very bankable. Russell Simmons made a statement to CCN today that Hip Hop talks about the reality of the artist. That may be so, but how real is it to be standing in front of a Bentley holding a forty ounce of alcohol as several women snake all over the singer and his friends? We have to acknowledge that these women willingly appear in these videos wearing the tiniest dental floss tops and bottoms, dancing like professional strippers.This is a complex issue, yet in many ways it is not. Every generation has its symbols that push and tug at the status quo, and that is why the Imus controversy is very important for all of us in the world to look at this time. The fact that the African American community can cause so much debate and can promote such change is huge. It is necessary to continue the debate and take the changes further. - Adele

Voice of America verses Pandora’s Self-broadcasting Box

Repeat it many times and you'll begin to believe it

Using the power of the Internet to broadcast a true independent voice; A composite of media bits ParkRidge47

Tonight on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, there were three topics that caught my attention. The first being the marking of the fourth year of America’s War in Iraq! It is shocking to really hear the number of years that this has gone on! The second is the interview with Ann Curry and the clearly megalomaniacal President of Sudan and the amateur campaign advertisement for Barack Obama. These three things relate in a very eerie way.

The last item, a very good editing and superimposition of the video, sound and text was spliced into and altered the message of Apple Computer’s award winning commercial that launched the company in 1984 What makes this advertisement so interesting is its delivery, both in terms of what, how and who. But that aside, there is the more important reaction that it has received. Internet film reminds me of MTV in the 1980’s. On reflection it was something that we looked at because we were thirsty for that type of entertainment. We all knew that it was not very good, but we didn’t care because it was better than what it was before, mainly television shows like Solid Gold, fixed to a specific time, day and formula.

Just as I am writing now on thebookmann and completely unaware of who may read this, the amateur campaign advertising benefits from a sort of for want of a better word, sniper advertising. A quick shot, unseen but dramatic. There shall be many types of product advertising that shall jump and have jumped onto this bandwagon, as this very cheap form of media is drawing so much attention. This attention has some unsettling aftertaste however, and I shall explain why.

On the one hand, everybody and their cousin seems to be filming themselves on camera these days. It seems very freeing, and in some instances even refreshing, as many well crafted careers are made to be seen through the lens of reality. Yet, this ‘reality’ may be as unreal and potentially damaging in ways that no choreographed career can be anticipated.

On the other hand, there is the fact that these types of films can be used in ways that we could never have foreseen, mainly blitzing. They are so cheap that someone with a grudge and time could do the equivalent of telemarketing all of your media toward a particular message. It is hard enough that children today have a hard time knowing right from wrong. It is now apparent that the boundary between truth and fiction is grayer than ever. Truth may become a thing of degree, if it hasn't already.

The Ann Curry interview with the President of Sudan, Omar al~Bashir is chilling, in the way that like the President of Iran, this gentleman uses a level of fiction akin to a conspiracy theory against his country. I am particularly horrified by this because in a strange way, The United States of America has given the world television that causes the very backlash it attempts to avoid. Mr. Al~Bashir is stating a lie so heinous about his own country, and he is using America’s own conspiracy theorists speculations to do so. Layering one meaning over another. Finally, the War on Iraq, four years on was stated as a war longer than World War I, World War II and the Korean War! What an Indictment ! This has been a war the world overall protested against. Yet President Bush found it necessary to write his own fiction to get America to where it is today. A third type of layering.

Tonight the news continued to look at what new media is doing to messages, but really, it is never the media, but the message, as the book is still with us, and radio, and television. So what is essential is to remain hopefully neutral to information until you have had the opportunity to see multiple perspectives. However be very careful while doing so, as all media because they are all about selling, sell you the cover, not the book.~ Adele

Andrew Warhola – Andy Warhol

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Mein Neues Deutschland

Why suffer unto thee, mein neues Deutschland


Destination Art, BBC’s television show on contemporary art visits Berlin and this week a glimpse of the East German painter Norbert Bisky is highlighted. Biskey describes his work as an expulsion of thought and of his childhood memories under Communist rule. He says that his work represents the false promise of paradise.

These paintings are the result of an unified Germany, and Biskey exaggerates his perception of the Aryan race. Although he denounces the stereotype image as a contradiction of the poly-culture which Berlin is today. Biskey's canvases show his fixation on castration, male rivalry and the seductiveness of materialism within the age of hip pop culture affecting the youth particularly, East Germans. These are idyllic compositions of semi-nude males portrayed in a psychedelic emptiness which spirals into a joyless contemplation, and Biskey paints them frothing at the mouth and at the very idea he says, of being too free and unsure of what to do with it. Yet they are lost in the consciousness of an unknown future.


Biskey’s work is intriguing because it deals with the subject of freedom and from a country that has been historically torn by fascism, socialist propaganda, guilt and unclear national identity. One of the pinnacle remarks is that his works are sort after by many German politicians as the subject surrounds an utopia and of the German Aryan painted in a loosely graphical fashion but also executed with a proficiency which represents a race where the undertones of the German psyche still is in its memory.

These are large paintings but the BBC kept meandering from detail to detail rather than giving a complete view of the work. Middle: Painted as if on ecstasy and ecstatic over the newness of a running shoe’s scent.

Tate Modern exhibits "Surface Art"

"Eddie to the Art curator: “I just want to buy Art, I want to be surrounded with lovely things” - Absolutely fabulous


The work of Nigel Cooke - A large painting of a banana smoking a fag highlighting the best of British Art televised worldwide on the BBC. Sheena Wagstaff's slip of the tongue but I like him: "First of all he is a fantastic painter but secondly these very bizarre scenes are a kind of imbued with this very dark and almost gothic idea behind them and they are incredibility compelling."

Art is subjective?

Art is like religion when people begin to talk about taste, and so said I must launch right into a tirade about BBC Worlds’ long anticipated show called Destination Art. I have been waiting to see who will be featured on the programme, and this week the feature was home, ie: London. I was pleased to see Yinka Shonibare. I find his work biting, amusing and refreshing, sometimes all at the same time. It was also wonderful to hear the artist in his own words, which were very thoughtful and wise. I settled back to enjoy this precious half hour as oddly, art is not actually something that makes television watchable for most, and that is why I say with a heavy heart that Nigel Cooke’s work fell awfully flat being watched through a book that he provided as well as one or two medium shots of his actual pieces in the Tate Modern gallery space. This was particularly alarming because after a shaky first half, Mr. Cooke rallied with what he had to say to young and upcoming artists like myself, how to ‘make it’ in the world of art. But by far the biggest surprise was the curator of the Tate Modern herself. I must assume that not everyone is television savvy, or maybe the Americans do mediaso well that they leave everyone else to shame. I found her statements about the work we were looking at, not particularly strong. It led me to assume that her eye must be indeed sharper and keener than her tongue. No offence, television does stop some people in their perfectly rehearsed tracks when the thought of millions of people weighing your words become apparent. - Adele


Yinka Shonibare's copulating Mannequins - Conventional Dutch fabric of Indonesian patterns exported to Africa make up these headless mannequins dresses in eighteen century attire. (A black woman fucked over by a black man and subsequently sodomised by a white man)

Wagstaff's imperialist guilt: “....it also deals with a post-imperialist topic which is done elegantly, and where the work is seen within the context not just with his generation but the subsequence generations"

The BBC is attempting to get “with the AmPublish Posterican program” by producing programmes that are quick visuals interspersed with sound bits to keep their viewers interested. There are graphics, images morphing and music sampling in keep with the content of what is being shown. “Destination Art” is a series of short interviews with Artists and curators to predominantly publicize themselves.


Transcribed in Italics Tate Modern's chief curator Sheena Wagstaff speaks about the Artists

With this week’s broadcast of “Destination Art,” Yinka Shonibare and Nigel Cooke are interviewed and the Tate Modern’s chief curator Sheena Wagstaff projected clues to the gallery’s requisitions policy and she also reinforced to a worldwide audience what a farce British contemporary Art really is from her politically crafted interjection in order to give relevancy in contemporary Art.


From bad to worse. Why say anything: ".....her work similarly are representative of a very new kind of approach to Art making, drawing itself as an entity as a finished product is something ??? that characterizes a lot of contemporary arts now a days."

Copycat PH Confessions

Pulling Bull like on HBO and advertising a Stage beer for revenue

Trinidadians have no qualms about copying other television shows. For instance, Taxi Cab Confessions. There is a hidden camera in this PH car which is recording the conversation between these three men. The subject is on Tabanca and Horning and it leads to their own confession of heartbreak of who horning who. So check you local TV listings for an adaption of HBO's Taxi Cab Confessions aptly called Copycat PH Confessions. Also pay attention because there are a few quirky instances which make you suspect that this is all a set up. Listen to an excerpt of the conversation 555kb wav format.
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Terms and meaning

PH is the abbreviation for Private Hire, also termed Pulling Bull
Horning is having sex with a person other than your current partner
Tabanca is love sickness

Ladies Ladies Ladies

Oh wow, this man has some much style

Winston, a local model smirking and trotting his style on a day which Trinidad and Tobago celebrates the end of slavery.

On this local television talk show, the subject of the evening is emancipation along with fashion and many Trinidadians and Tobagonian wear some sort of African garb to recognize the emancipation of slavery. Whether they truly understand what these clothes may mean, there are three women to explain it with the help of a lady's man.



So ladies, ladies, ladies, call your seamstress and buy out those bolts of burgundy fabric to make your twenty bridesmaids dresses and watch this saga boy plucked from his daily vocation of selling nuts on Prince street as he trots the catwalk where the world of low fashion delights these women dressed as if they are part of occult.

Jamaica's take on a AIDS campaign

Youth: "Eh soldier yuh could help me out"

Man with shades: “What happen yo youth.”

Youth: “Yo I need a condom, I have a little situation”

Man with shades: “Sorry I can’t help you dat”

Man with shades: "Di girl dem have “Mike” run round like a little chicken."

Man in red jersey: "Ah least him ask for a condom, him smart, thinking smart”

Man with shades: “See this condom t’ing takeaway from the feeling mind you, besides its top class girls me rolling with.”

Man in red jersey: “Tell me something all dem girls you with you know who dem use to deal before you… or what, yuh don’t think you can catch this AIDS t’ing”

Man in red jersey: “Playing with your life… rudeboy”

Man in red jersey: “Come here little bredrin…protection is important”

Youth: “I got one at the shop you know, I could use it for a second rounds.”

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This is a Jamaican television campaign on HIV and AIDS aired on Synergy TV in Trinidad and Tobago. The transcript shows the keen sense of direction and content in curbing the spread of the HIV virus and other related symptoms of unprotected sex.

Pretty Pretty Frieda

Pull back pull back cut to a wide cameraman!


The dancer in this video clip spiraled out to the right of the frame as the director of this local television station tried to cope by pulling the camera back but not as far to show the actual size of the studio space which Pretty Frieda had to contend with. Yet, her performance was delightful in its pose and gesture in the traditions in Indian dance.