Thursday, May 23, 2013

JAZZ WRAP

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet again our local media disappoints--which is why we need a Freedom of Information Act in SLU. Even when the tendering process has direct implications for their own companies and livelihoods, they refuse to dig deeper.

Did no one think to ask the Tourism Director exactly which aspects of Mc Doom's statements were baseless? Was it the quoted payments or the overpriced but sub-par stage set? Or the dominance of foreign designers?

And why weren't all aspects of the show tendered, as is customary for contractual arrangements with the GOSL and its statutory bodies? What happened to standard procedure? Better yet, what about the profitability of the fashion show? Did the Tourist Board break even or record losses? Stop allowing public officials to get away with glib comments unchallenged.

Anonymous said...

At this stage of its existance it appears that the Tourist Board doesn't have the clout to call a press conference; the Board has to be "solicited".Sounds very cagey!

Anonymous said...

I totally agree with May 23, Anonymous. McDoom made some specific allegations about the fashion show. They need to be answered in their specificity not by some diplomatic statement thanking those who may or may not have gotten some financial reward for directing the show for snowing restraint.

It is the duty of the director and the impresario to answer the allegations made by McDoom and not hide behind some PS's statement. A PS who may not even have known what was going on behind the scenes.

I recall the fiasco with Boo Hinkson before the last Jazz festival when he too felt that he was treated in a manner not befitting of his status and musical genius.
If McDoom is wrong or mistaken, show him where he is or where he has erred. And if he is not then let us correct the situation for the better. The number of models is not the issue. I clearly remember McDoom writing that the foreign models were going to display thirty pieces and the local models fifteen. Is that true or is it not true?

Anonymous said...

Shame on you, Louise Lewis! You have not answered NOT one of the allegations made by McDoom (I of course do believe McDoom is speaking the truth).

I saw you on news attempting some pitiful and shameful explanations. You could or even watched the camera without squirming - that tells a lot. From your body language we could all include who is not tell the St Lucian people the truth.

You are acting and behaving just like the selected few here, the hitherto masas, albeit without the BRAND name and pedigree! You may have forgotten where you came from!

Someone needs to shock you back to reality.

Anonymous said...

Mr Lewis, stop beating around the bush and answer, truthfully - that is if you can, the allegations Mr Vincent McDoom alleges.

Anonymous said...

There was only one dissenting voice and if I heard one, it was Mr. McDoom himself. - Mr Lewis.

You have yet to hear from the St Lucian designers who were NOT treated very well by the SLTB!!

Just you wait.

Vincent did a very good job of training the models, AND giving the St Lucian designers' tips of the trade, for which we were all very grateful.

Did any of the SLTB producers interact with the St Lucian designers? NO! NEVER!!

Armchair Anonymous said...

"The disparaging comments made by McDoom, he added, were not only baseless but served to undermine the focus of the Hot Couture event."

Mr Lewis

The SLTB Board thinks they are being clever, but in fact are coming across very foolish!!

Rock on Vincent!!

Anonymous said...

Yeah above, I heard him (last night on the 7 pm local news) utter the exact quotations you made reference to.

Mr Lewis, please tell us; WHAT ARE THE DISPARAGING COMMENTS MADE BY VINCENT?

Anonymous said...

Does the communication show that the communicator does not fully understand the words used?

Vincent was very lucid. How comes it that the response sounds like someone in a brain fog?

Who is trying to kid whom, here? You?

That kind of foolishness works only on those who know no better than to shout 'en rouge' to get their one-week STEP job.

The rest of us of course, we know a complete jackass when we hear it bray.

Anonymous said...

Vincent, they just can't keep a good man down!. Take a load of this.

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Taken from: "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing," a Wired interview by Gary Wolf, February 1996
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Anonymous said...

Will someone please tell this young man that the young people of this country are really bored with and tired of hearing our politicians shoot real shate?

Anonymous said...

Tell our politicians to cut the crap. They are too god damn obvious.

Anonymous said...

Looks like having a jazz crap?

Anonymous said...

Louis Lewis remember where you came from. Do not try to join the ranks of the so called fight class just to be as they would say "INA IT" because the higher you go the harder your fall from grace will be. Some previous holders of your position have had to find work out of St. Lucia. Remember St. Lucians have selective memory and would wipe off you off the employment radar like a hard drive and those wanna be fight class eh go have money to help you.