{"id":5086,"date":"2014-09-13T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T20:05:22","slug":"my-haitian-creatives-project-screening-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5086","title":{"rendered":"My Haitian Creatives Project Screening Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5087\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5087\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=5087\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?fit=1000%2C667\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410295935&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4941\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;DJ Hard Hittin Harry, Smax Music, Mel and Chuck Collins&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?fit=800%2C534\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?fit=1000%2C667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5087\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?resize=1000%2C667\" alt=\"DJ Hard Hittin Harry, Smax Music, Mel and Chuck Collins\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?resize=800%2C534 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?resize=768%2C512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Hard Hittin Harry, Smax Music, Mel and Chuck Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past Tuesday I found myself standing in front of a packed house in Prospect Heights at Kombit, a Haitian bar and restaurant. I was introducing myself and the <a href=\"http:\/\/richardlouissaint.com\/?fluxus_portfolio=haitian-creatives\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> I had started about a year ago out of frustration on creatives of Haitian descent. I was gesturing way too much and somehow my nice dress shirt got very wrinkled sometime during the night. But I spoke the turned on the ipad and began playing the videos which included this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TvH_GPxF1xc?list=UUnYqK4V_jpZmBlBwyxgrF-Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we watched, I listened for reactions and scanned the faces of the crowd periodically to see their reactions. Mel and Smax&#8217;s segment got a lot of laughs, Chuck&#8217;s I was more focused on how Negus Korby&#8217;s music dominated his video a bit too much, and DJ Hard Hittin Harry&#8217;s Segment looked the best to me visually on that projected screen.<\/p>\n<p>The last video ended and I got up to applause, \u00a0which is still something I&#8217;m not used\u00a0to, and answered whatever questions people had an tried my best to make sure that my three creatives\u00a0got a chance to promote what they are currently working on. And as I thanked everyone for coming and made my final remarks, I thought what next with this project that has become something bigger than expected it to be. And others asked what&#8217;s next and even proposed ways they could help me figure out financial avenues to take it to a bigger place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always thinking about what&#8217;s next, but for now I&#8217;m contacting my next Haitian Creative, whoever that may be.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QRXwRxTzPk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday I found myself standing in front of a packed house in Prospect Heights at Kombit, a Haitian bar and restaurant. I was introducing myself and the project I had started about a year ago out of frustration on creatives of Haitian descent. I was gesturing way too &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5086\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[20,624,332],"tags":[1004,160,393,909,964],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-musings","category-notes","tag-wearethenewhaitians","tag-brooklyn","tag-haitian","tag-haitiancreativesseries","tag-kombit-restaurant","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_4941.jpg?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-1k2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5469,"url":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5469","url_meta":{"origin":5086,"position":0},"title":"The Haitian Creatives Series Website Has Launched","date":"15 May \u201915","format":false,"excerpt":"The documentary project that began in 2013 has it's own home. 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