Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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 [...]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
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 [...]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Art, Musings, Reviews, writing | Tags: Bahamas, budget, economics, film making, Hollywood, Maria Govan, Michael Pintard, movies, paintings, plays | 16 Comments »
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Art, Musings, Reviews, writing | Tags: Bahamas, economics, Hollywood, Michael Pintard, plays, poetry, Transformers | 16 Comments »
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
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 [...]
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