Trini 'fraid to go home! I'm from one of the so-called "hot spots" but I doh miss Panorama or Emancipation. Claude, I hope yuh doh live in the US!
I was in PoS last Monday when there was the so-called riot. I drove down Charlotte St., thru the Harpe, Piccadilly St., etc. Mostly business as usual.
Yes, there were some incidents but the hype is really in the social media/live video streamings and postings. Crime and violence in TT is bad but shouldn't keep Trinis from enjoying Panorama and Carnival.
The era of the big trucks is part of the evolution of carnival technology and engineering. I recall lamenting when they pushed pan-pushing aside. I am optimistic because the evolution continues and there are many models of internet/sound reproduction for bands to explore.
Maybe health/environmental concerns may lead to the demise of the big trucks.
Maybe I am optimistic because I'm scared to be otherwise.
Ajamu the trucks are unhealthy on every level. The trucks are a backwards way of thinking. A million dollar prize should be given to the youth in a panyard that can invent a new way to revolutionize the transporting of Pan and Mas for Carnival through robotic automation. In Brazil we see massive floats moving without trucks, humans or aliens pushing or pulling them.
We have to move away from thinking our only options are either big trucks , or pushing pans like we did in the sixties.
Its been over sixty years , don't you think we could have come up with more efficient and practical ways of steelband mobility , if we had put our minds to it ?
The same minds that created the steelband in the first place ?
I, to, wondered about the trucks on the road, but then, the masses cried for everyone to eat ah food. So when I thought of how many people were involved in this endeavor I smiled becuz at least some people found a way to make a dollar.
One of the expressions from my childhood that keeps me going, even in today's times, is ... you gotta know how to bounce your body .
There were scores of massive trucks on the road for Carnival in Trinidad a fortnight ago. These trucks take weeks of planning and are put together from the truck bed up to the roof of the trailer, frames are built and welded on before a single box is mounted and strapped in. The 75KW generators are hoisted on by crane and bolted to the floor.
These trucks are insane but these guys have perfected these MOBILE MONSTERS which can easily be heard from a half mile away!!
WE LIKE WE TRUCK ON THE ROAD (FOR CARNIVAL) TOO BAD DOWN IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO!!!
I would love to go down to TRINIDAD for CARNIVAL and experience this BIG TRUCK phenomenon ... but the BANDIT FACTORY PARTY ARMY have meh TERRORIZED more than all dem "ISIS (MUSLIM) TERRORISTS" they just ARREST and RELEASE!!!
I don't know. Mr. Mario Sabga-Aboud came on a CNN special and said he controls everything in Trinidad. So I guess that means the truck cartel too. He seems like a reasonable fella. I sure he wouldn't be upset with getting rid of the trucks if he can make he can make money through robotics.
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Trini 'fraid to go home! I'm from one of the so-called "hot spots" but I doh miss Panorama or Emancipation. Claude, I hope yuh doh live in the US!
I was in PoS last Monday when there was the so-called riot. I drove down Charlotte St., thru the Harpe, Piccadilly St., etc. Mostly business as usual.
Yes, there were some incidents but the hype is really in the social media/live video streamings and postings. Crime and violence in TT is bad but shouldn't keep Trinis from enjoying Panorama and Carnival.
The era of the big trucks is part of the evolution of carnival technology and engineering. I recall lamenting when they pushed pan-pushing aside. I am optimistic because the evolution continues and there are many models of internet/sound reproduction for bands to explore.
Maybe health/environmental concerns may lead to the demise of the big trucks.
Maybe I am optimistic because I'm scared to be otherwise.
Ajamu the trucks are unhealthy on every level. The trucks are a backwards way of thinking. A million dollar prize should be given to the youth in a panyard that can invent a new way to revolutionize the transporting of Pan and Mas for Carnival through robotic automation. In Brazil we see massive floats moving without trucks, humans or aliens pushing or pulling them.
bugs
Good point , Bugs.
We have to move away from thinking our only options are either big trucks , or pushing pans like we did in the sixties.
Its been over sixty years , don't you think we could have come up with more efficient and practical ways of steelband mobility , if we had put our minds to it ?
The same minds that created the steelband in the first place ?
Claude,
I, to, wondered about the trucks on the road, but then, the masses cried for everyone to eat ah food. So when I thought of how many people were involved in this endeavor I smiled becuz at least some people found a way to make a dollar.
One of the expressions from my childhood that keeps me going, even in today's times, is ... you gotta know how to bounce your body .
Brenda H.
There were scores of massive trucks on the road for Carnival in Trinidad a fortnight ago. These trucks take weeks of planning and are put together from the truck bed up to the roof of the trailer, frames are built and welded on before a single box is mounted and strapped in. The 75KW generators are hoisted on by crane and bolted to the floor.
These trucks are insane but these guys have perfected these MOBILE MONSTERS which can easily be heard from a half mile away!!
WE LIKE WE TRUCK ON THE ROAD (FOR CARNIVAL) TOO BAD DOWN IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO!!!
I would love to go down to TRINIDAD for CARNIVAL and experience this BIG TRUCK phenomenon ... but the BANDIT FACTORY PARTY ARMY have meh TERRORIZED more than all dem "ISIS (MUSLIM) TERRORISTS" they just ARREST and RELEASE!!!
Claude
I don't know. Mr. Mario Sabga-Aboud came on a CNN special and said he controls everything in Trinidad. So I guess that means the truck cartel too. He seems like a reasonable fella. I sure he wouldn't be upset with getting rid of the trucks if he can make he can make money through robotics.
bugs