One of, if the best, photoblogs on the internet is Boston.com’s The Big Picture. They recently put together a piece on the continuing aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. Check out a sampling of the photos below…
Tomorrow (Feb. 2nd) will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being addressed. The World Food Program has begun a new system of delivering rice to 10,000 Haitians per day at each of 16 women-only distribution points around the city - restricted to women, since young men often muscle their way to the front of distribution lines, and the women are viewed as more likely to fairly divide up the food. Aid chiefs and donor nations are warning that Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction.
Rex Nettleford performing in 1965; photo by Maria LaYacona
I made the mistake of not getting this out last week, when The Hon. Rex Nettleford, OM, FIJ, OCC passed. For that, I apologize. For those unfamiliar with Rex Nettleford, and the legacy he leaves behind, see the passage below…
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated his 77th birthday…
…”Jamaica and the entire world have lost an intellectual and creative genius, a man whose contribution to shaping and projecting the cultural landscape of the entire Caribbean region is unquestionable,” (Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce )Golding said….
In the time since his death, numerous pieces have come up all over the net, a few of which I’ve compiled below…
Not too much to say about the man that hasn’t already been said.
For some vibes to spin throughout the day to remember him by, check this out…
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Anyone familiar with the genre knows that Reggae artists have been covering pop records since day one. Good to see that tradition continue in 2010, this time via Major Lazer and Ele covering Beyonce’s “Halo”.
I gotta admit though, I’ve never heard the full original. Hopefully they do it justice.
Check out the audio below…
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Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie assembled an all star line-up of who’s who of artists for the remake of “We Are The World” for Haiti. The full single is slated to be aired on Super Bowl Sunday.
A while back Omar posted some photos of skateboarding crews that were emerging in Jamaica, I was searching around to see if there was an more info or video on them to show, just the other day I stumbled on an interview from Large Up about this.
From the video you can see how the kids are being diversified with new hobbies and putting their own spin on things by merging it back into the dancehall scene.
I run another blog in my leisure time Upper90nyc.com that always gets random comments in Serbian, Russian and Polish (I have no idea why). So as I was trying to figure out what the comments were saying, I noticed Google Translate added Creole to the list of languages. Kinda nice that they added it, I know I could use it. In addition to Google, Bing also added one as well - and I believe they did it before Google.
