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The Legends of Ska

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Legends of Ska is a documentary film focusing on the sights & sounds of Jamaica during the early 1960s. As the precursor to Reggae, Ska is a mix of Jazz, R&B, and many other styles of music, which continued to make a huge impact far from the island's shores.

The idea for this project was born ten years ago, right after conducting a radio interview with the first star of Ska, Derrick Morgan. It went very well and I said to the show's intern "When is someone going to make a movie about the music we love?" That was my "light bulb" moment and it has been shining brightly ever since.

At that time, everyone was captivated by the Buena Vista Social Club , right before Ken Burns' documentary series, Jazz , debuted on PBS. Inspired by those projects, I decided to produce and film the largest vintage ska show ever. I was fortunate to raise enough money to present the Legends of Ska concerts in Toronto over a long weekend during the summer of 2002. The review in the Jamaica Gleaner was outstanding and the event was named "Concert of the Year" by Now Toronto .

Back then, I thought reuniting the greatest collection of original Jamaican Ska singers & musicians was going to be the hardest part of this process, but it turned out to be the easiest. Raising the money to complete this project through traditional means has not worked out, that is why I am turning to you .

Currently, all principal photography has been completed and the film is in post-production. All the money raised from Kickstarter will go directly towards completing the film. Our priority is to finish editing the film by late summer, then hit the film festival circuit. The funding will also cover the sound mix, High Definition transfers & MARKETING.

The more money raised, the more songs we can use in the finished film.

Over all these years, I remained motivated by the many positive responses I regularly received from Ska fans in Jamaica, England, Japan, France, Argentina, Germany, America, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Italy & China. One of the trailers on YouTube has well over 150,000 hits.

Whether you are a passionate fan of Jamaican music & culture or a curious observer who loves film & the feeling of sand between your toes, please come forward. This is the last major genre of Jamaican music that needs its story to be told.

The film clip on this page is one of many. Please visit the Legends of Ska web site for more trailers, photos and information.

Calling all Rudies: The time is NOW to board the Ska train!!!

Please click the GREEN button that says "BACK THIS PROJECT." Anything you can give is greatly appreciated. All the swag offered as Backer Rewards is very enticing, especially the grand prize. If you wish to forgo any of the material rewards, please indicate.

In August of 2012, the independent nation of Jamaica will turn 50 years young. My goal is to complete the film this year and be ready for release next year, so we can all celebrate the island's musical heritage together.

Project location: Minneapolis, MN

For Mr. Ewok Merrick

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What we see, what we do "Regarding the Pain of Others"

"We, and this is all that we

That has never experienced anything like that suffered by them-

not understand . We have no thought "

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of other .

Siglo XXI: image, reaction, assimilation.

I heard the echo in the adjectives re Pedro Piqueras, (caricatured to the core, which made me laugh a lot), usually used to describe the most dire situations usually see on the news. "Catastrophic", "horrifying", "shocking."

But last March 11, millions of people view images that could well serve those adjectives. We received a lot of images and footage of the devastating effect of this phenomenon. It was inevitable that they provoke some kind of emotion, very small it was, in those who saw them.

We can see but not understand

"What did you do to help?" That's what I asked Kevin Carter, South African photographer, after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for a dramatic photograph made in a Sudanese village in 1993 that shows a girl with visible signs of malnutrition being stalked by a vulture.

is certainly a case to discuss in many ways inside and outside the world of journalism (a debate which, however, has not emerged in all that I race, even in the course photojournalism).

After a long time to barrage of criticism, adding all the personal conflicts that may have Carter, committed suicide in 1994. Parting

theories that have emerged since the implementation of the photograph and rumors about the journalist's life, it seems that this question predicted it could cause an awakening. I mean that kind of awakening that is often experienced when, for too long, have suffered a state of blindness or emotional anesthesia. As a war correspondent, Kevin Carter had caught too many scenes with his camera, so hard to traumatize a person for the rest of his life. What emerges over time when one observes the conditions of this office from the outside (as a student in this case) is that it concludes that one must be a lesser or greater degree desensitized to keep sending to the world images such aberrant like the girl. You have to be "automated" to know the significance that will capture an image when the opportunity arises. And if there are loopholes in ethics, think about whether it will change the circumstances of the worst situations, if not there, it will be only successful project with ambition to win a Pulitzer.

In this study, Regarding the pain of others , Susan Sontag makes a reasoned, thought-provoking, eloquent and really needed on the effect of photography as an illustrator document the devastation of war. Goes even further. Study the new reality in which we are about it: Eat a large dose of violence and witness, third degree, armed conflict and distress experienced by millions of people worldwide. And we can watch everything through the media and this is a fact that inevitably changes our perception of things and emotions that we may cause. Sontag

recreates scenes of many battles have been given on Earth. From the battles of the Crimea and the Civil War to the treatment of images of the World Trade Center through the wars in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sudan, Rwanda. The First and Second World War are two historical passages where the author stops to reflect on more than one occasion. "The knowledge of the war between people who have never lived is now mainly a product of the impact of these images" is one of the most accurate statements of Sontag and her attempts to explain in truth we can never imagine how living through a war.

its 9 chapters in the book leads to a series of proposals that essentially are based on the nature of man to understand or not the pain of others.

In the first part, the author introduces the bold question, by Virginia Woolf's words, that it is men who wage war. Subsequent chapters highlight the important role that has had the photograph (image) in the propaganda battle every war, meeting with special relevance for the English Civil War and the echo that the photograph of the Robert Capa Republican activist's death. It also presents some examples from history where an event has no significance due because of the lack of photographic or low capacity dramatic images available.

"The problem is not that people remember through photographs, the problem is that people only remember the pictures." Undoubtedly, Sontag creates a special way, without obvious exhortations, or judgments or prejudices, Key points to think about all the features and consequences of the images.

Regarding the pain of others is ultimately an essay about the emotions they evoke images of pain and a necessary approach: Do they keep the pictures of wars, famine, injustice, etc. causing a commotion?

On the one hand, it is inevitable that human being used to bear the images of pain, if it is possible to adapt to psychological and physical, of course it would be for the pain of others. However, you may get used only if we can be alert for a while. If we close our eyes and enter into that state of "emotional anesthesia" previously cited. Kevin Carter, someone allegedly tanned and desensitized to continue in his job, it came time to see the "pain of others" and his own. There will always be images that make us wake up and change, intentionally or not, our behavior.

Another idea full of truth that Sontag uses is that even we feel fear, anger, compassion for others after seeing the picture or sequence of a war scene, we will never feel what the people who live single skin experience. "We" are the audience.

Finally, a more extensive quotation: "We can not imagine how awful, how frightening it is war, and how it becomes normal." It's what every soldier, every journalist, aid worker and independent observer who has spent time under fire, and was lucky to escape death, stubbornly feels .. He is right. "

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Pedro Páramo

" The heat woke me up at midnight. And sweat. The body of the woman made of earth, wrapped in earth crust is broken up as if melting into a puddle of mud. I was swimming in sweat dripping from her and I missed the air needed to breathe. Then I got up. The woman was sleeping. From his mouth the sound of bubbles bubbled very similar to the rattle.

I went out to find the air, but the heat not chasing me off from me.

And there was no air, only at night and still hampered, heated by the dog days of August.

No air. I had to suck the very air out of my mouth, stopping it with his hands before he left. He felt it coming and going, more and less, until it became so thin that it leaked through my fingers for good.

say forever. "

Pedro Páramo. Juan Rulfo.

not my words wild and board, and my fingers clumsy and awkward achieved praise in the right way to what I consider the great work of Juan Rulfo.

A look out of our guts. A sighting of the unknown. An enigma that blood and earth challenge us to solve. An encounter with death and eternity. A trip to Comala.



irrefutable The digitization of literary beauty.

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The meeting of paper and ink with photography in motion.

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For Mr. Ewok Merrick