By no stretch of the imagination would I call myself a designer! But, I’ve been around lots of good designers to understand what good design is and how it can affect the way how spectators and consumers appreciate it.
Maybe I’m just being a bit too modest in saying this because in the past people have [...]
Posted by Michael at 21:39:14 on November 30th, 2008 in Design
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I have had a love affair with radio going back for as long as I can remember! In Caribbean communities like the one I grew up in Jamaica, radio has a more significant meaning than in other more developed areas of the world.
Whereas in the affluent areas radio is an addition to the main news [...]
Posted by Michael at 19:19:23 on November 29th, 2008 in Radio
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Of course writing is my favourite skill and passion! It now comes very natural to me and I can only assume it is a blessing from God to have been given such a talent because I have never done any kind of training in order to do it properly or even professionally!
I have won award [...]
Posted by Michael at 16:00:31 on November 23rd, 2008 in Writer
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Whenever I think of myself as a talent somehow the sentiment expressed by original Jamaican rapper Big Youth in “Every Nigger is a Star” comes to mind. Discarding the “nigger” part of the sentiment, I’ve always felt I could act, sing, perform or entertain if only I put my mind to it but I always [...]
Posted by Michael at 02:08:45 on November 22nd, 2008 in Talent
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The first thing I ever published, if truth be told, was a book of poems I wrote in my idle hours as a teenage schooler! But somehow that didn’t survive so I got nothing to show from those many creative hours.
What is irrefutable is the fact that I published the UK’s first Black internet site [...]
Posted by Michael at 14:30:18 on November 21st, 2008 in Publisher
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My love for photography was probably kindled by my two bigger, surviving brothers. They loved taking pictures with various Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid.
There was something about watching the image immerse or developed after receiving the prints back from the lab which fascinated me.
But I could only fantasize about owning my own camera until the day [...]
Posted by Michael at 14:00:24 on November 20th, 2008 in Photographer
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I got involved in IT by accident rather than by design! When I returned to the UK after spending five years working as a journalist in my native Jamaica, I wanted to publish a print magazine.
This was circa 1992 when the term “information superhighway” was buzzing in the air but to me it sounded like [...]
Posted by Michael at 14:00:23 on November 19th, 2008 in IT
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My film-making interest started in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England when I joined a film club there and as a member learnt various skills by working on other member’s independent 16mm film productions.
I subsequently got £10,000 financing from Yorkshire Arts Association to finance my own short film “Just A Spring Chicken.”
I studied Film & Television on [...]
Posted by Michael at 13:50:04 on November 18th, 2008 in FilmMaker
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