Imagine a day with no artists. On February 11, 2009, the first Day of Absence was observed in the Bahamas with the above tag-line. This event was the brain child of Nicolette Bethel, prominent Bahamian anthropologist, scholar and playwright. With a demonstration at the College of the Bahamas and numerous blog posts, interviews and radio [...]

…shouldn’t have left you.. without a dope beat to step to… step to. Flick it, flick it… Good news. The thesis is progressing well. When I last wrote here, I was stuck in a fourth chapter that seemed of infinite duration, and honestly I started to panic. See, for my own sanity, and reasons of [...]

Part 4: Laughter is the best medicine… If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have to be some kind of playwright. It really is that simple. Poetry is currently back in fashion, but in its raw form, on the page, or performed at small events, open-mike [...]

And now for a long overdue introduction… Well Muddo! The audience has come, and they have voiced their opinion on Part 2 of this series, and after some initial ruckus, it seems that things are settling down to some sort of consensus: Film has potential, but beware of the risk. Thanks to all of those [...]

Just letting you know that there is a new post over on Mental Slavery dot com. The piece is the guest editorial that appears in the current Spring / Summer 2009 issue of The College of the Bahamas Alumni Magazine. It’s entitled The Bahamian story needs a reality check. I think it’s worth a quick [...]

Part 2: So, you want to be in the movies… What are we to make of the current passion for movie-making in the Bahamas? Is it possible to apply the logic of Hollywood to our local situation and create an honest-to-God indigenous film industry here? Films made by Bahamians for Bahamians? This is an enormously [...]

When I walked out of Transformers 2 the other day, I had an epiphany. Or more precisely, I had an extension to another epiphany that I had had a few days before. My revelation was about art, how to be an artist in the Bahamas and most importantly, how to make a living while doing [...]

Well not me per se. I’m not Oprah! It’s one of my paintings that is gracing the present issue of Tongues of the Ocean. Why not take a look and read some of the wonderful poetry while you are there. The piece which is entitled “Before Someone Sees” was painted as a part of my [...]

Everyone knows Google. And now it’s hard to think how the web worked without search. I stumbled into something that, in a few years, might become just as essential to our experience of the internet. It’s called Wolfram|Alpha, and although it may look like a search engine, and may have been hyped as a google-killer, [...]

Congratulations to me. I’m now 32. I survived another year. So now I’m out of my prime and I guess it all goes downhill from here, etc. ad nauseam. So what did I accomplish in this past year? Good question. First things first. What I didn’t accomplish. I was hoping to have my thesis finished [...]