Black Stalin: SKULLUGGERY COMING DOWN.

Six time Calypso Monarch Leroy Calliste ‘The Black Stalin’ went to the Skullduggery mas camp and composed this catchy song for the band . I loved the tune so much it inspired me to do this little clip.
The Costumes were designed by Sonya Sanchez-Arias
and original photography by Mark Lyndersay
Mas Assassin.

If you want to know more about the band take a look at the website of SKULLDUGGERY
OR you can see their facebook account HERE

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SKULLDUGGERY sections.

All the sections of SKULLDUGGERY are on their website now you ill find full info on the band and definitions of the sections. check it out!

SKULLDUGGERY PRICE LIST

Skullduggery have released their price list for their costumes check it out...

If you need more information see the website .

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SKULLDUGGERY BAND LAUNCH : 04:07:2010

SKULLDUGGERY THE LAUNCH from MAS ASSASSIN on Vimeo.
The Voice of Peter Minshall, the Band SKULLDUGGERY!


When you hear Peter Minshall  saw the designs and gave the the thumbs up, you know its a mas with a difference, when you hear Minshall's voice promoting and endorsing  the band you know that mas will be wicked!
04:07:2010 where will you be?

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Nothing But Skullduggery: By Dalton Narine

One of Sanchez Aria Mas Band designs.

Everything in photography comes down to one word. Vision. And, if photography means the relative difference between light and dark areas of a print or negative, how do things look in this picture? Sonya Sanchez Arias. Mas Band designer. Skullduggery. Artisans in Port of Spain and Florida who are aware of her work won’t fret at all. Sanchez Arias’ profession could be construed as designer with a camera, but the Trinidadian-born Florida resident’s trademarked logo is really that of an illustrious artist, period. Sanchez Arias’ advantage is capturing the weight of the moment, and nowhere in time has the freshest breath of air surfaced until now. This very instant.

For years, Carnival through her lens has been a one-note beat in the Land of Calypso. And a tone sustained can be screechy to the senses, particularly vision. Sanchez Arias is all about imagery, for sure. She says there’s not enough innovation in the mas.“Everything looks exactly the same year after year. Brian Mac Farlane is the only one designing costumes with lots of cloth. But it’s not enough. There should be more variety. Masqueraders should have more choice.” But, Sanchez Arias no longer needs to vent. Last summer, Peter Samuel, the King player who won the national title eight times, reached her by phone about the potential in her work, vis-à-vis the “incredible” paper dresses she had designed for a Florida company. His curiosity piqued, he wondered if she was up to the task of designing a mas band, though he was well aware that her mother Judith (Miss Judy) Sanchez had played a pivotal role at the Callaloo Company’s mas camp, working on a costume for his queen, for example, or producing elements of various sections in his bands.

Judy Sanchez

According to Sanchez Arias, “Peter Minshall really valued my mother’s opinion and sense of design.” So, Sanchez Arias recalls jumping at Samuel’s offer “without hesitation.” Miss Judy – everybody used the moniker for her creative mom, who passed away several years ago – would be proud, she mused. Particularly about the strange passing of the genes. Suddenly, the baton was in Sanchez Arias’ hand, but, with 2011 Carnival around the corner, the competition had a head start. Husband Fernando, himself a photographer,will tell you, though, pressure is no stranger to both him and his wife. Remember the genes? Miss Judy conceived her daughter in Spain, where she had met her husband, Baltazar Sanchez, an ultimate sportsman who not only fought in the bullring but also on the court at Wimbledon. Sanchez Arias is the third of four children. Both an older sister, Lydia, and her brother, Saro who died at age 14, were born in Spain, where Miss Judy thrilled audiences with her flamenco dances. In August 1964, the budding family relocated to Trinidad, where Sanchez Arias and her younger brother Jose were born. Baltazar adapted to his new country and fell in as a tennis coach. Meanwhile, Miss Judy crafted bridal headpieces and wedding decorations. Mas would come into focus a few years         down the road. 

Sanchez Arias’ earliest memory of mas places her as a toddler behind a gate on Western Main Road opposite the St James Police Barracks, gaping at the traditional Carnival characters that roamed the neighborhood in the early morning before they set out for the city. That baptism led to her playing mas as early as six years old in Kiddies Carnival competitions around the country, including the Southland. The progression took her through Jouvert . Much later, after graduating with honors in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, Miss Judy’s daughter repurposed her creativity, albeit briefly, as a Minshall mas player.

And now, she’s the one working her fingers to the bone, a novice mas woman designing a band by following the fashion of skulduggery in her homeland. Her own idea being transformed into what many Trinbagonians may consider as a vernacular, but indeed one that finds meaning in Webster’s: Skulduggery—unfair and dishonest practices carried out in a secretive way in order to trick other people; devious or mischievous activity; verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. Or, as Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter—who ruled in the Muhammad Ali era—used to say, “trickerations.”

“It’s a universal fact that people are enthralled by skulls and skeletons,” says Sanchez Arias from her office she calls the bone yard. “And I married that to the underhanded nonsense going on in Trinidad and Tobago. Bribery, trickery, dishonesty, slyness, deceit. All de bobol, comesse and grease han’ skulduggery.” Such qualities of—as they say on the block—skull, play out in all of her sections, so they could “trickerate” spectators, Sanchez Arias warns. “I injected a humorous slant,” she says. “Mas is about that, too. Like mockery in the Kaiso Tent and ole mas. Trinidadians are accustomed to using humour to express themselves creatively. “When I read the definition, I said, ‘We have so much of that here in T&T, so many possibilities to interpret skulduggery practices into local parlance.’ “So, with certain sections, I’m very literal.”

To the bone, naturally. And far be it from Sanchez Arias to varnish quotations on her Web site. Her favourite flows e flows from photographer Ansel Adams: We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. “I believe this to be true of Carnival, too,” she says. No wonder Sonya Sanchez Arias’ business is about transparencies. Look into it at the July 4 launch of the band. “Skullduggery.” Though the band spells the word differently, it says mockingly, ‘We’re not hard to find at all.’

DALTON NARINE Published: 20 Jun 2010

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Another SKULLDUGGERY teaser

I Suspect this is the Greasehand section .

Sonya Sanchez Arias: The Mark Lyndersay Interview

Image of Mark Lyndersay

Sonya Sanchez-Arias is the designer of the band SKULLDUGGERY. Mark Lyndersay  has done a fantastic interview with her, if you want to know more about this creative force and her background the interview is on the Zeppie page of the SKULLDUGGERY web site.

 Sonya Sanchez-Arias is a photographer and stylist well known and regarded for her work in Trinidad and Tobago when she ran her studio here in the 1990's. Since returning to Florida with her husband, a move spurred by her wish to ride the first wave of the digital revolution, she has become a specialist stylist working with her husband, Fernando.

Skullduggery is her first Carnival band and this interview, transcribed from a Skype interview on May 18, 2010, explains her thoughts, background and inspirations for the work she is doing on the project.

Please note that the photography accompanying this story was created for a very different project. While it reflects the quality of the designer's work and her capabilities, it reflects a different challenge and approach to the work she's doing for the Skullduggery project.

see the rest here

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SKULLDUGGERY: Another peep

Designer  Sonya Sanchez Arias has released another peep from the 2011 presentation 'SKULLDUGGERY'

on their facebook page, don't forget JULY 4th is the launch, I'm sure there will be more to come...

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SKULLDUGGERY : 04:07:2010

SKULLDUGGERY BAND LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCED!

SKULLDUGGERY have announced the date for their band launch on Face book last night, it’s on  

SUNDAY 4TH JULY 2010 @
THE ANCHORAGE
MUSIC BY CHARILES ROOTS ft. DAVID RUDDER
3 CANAL
AND THE MAS WILL BE ON DISPLAY STRAIGHT FROM D’ BONE YARD!!

SKULLDUGGERY: Just a Peep

I dont have a name your guess is as good as mine....

David Rudder and Charlie’s Roots Confirmed for Skullduggery Carnival 2011

I just got some news 

It’s been confirmed that SKULLDUGGERY will have Charlie’s Roots and David Rudder on the Road come Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2011.

Talk is too that Rudder will have his own section in the band; I wonder what section that could be?

SKULLDUGGERY : Carnival 2011: Vai-que-vai: Wara-hoon & Two Face

I was asked when the section teasers were gonna stop and some previews going to start so I contacted Peter Samuel who said very soon people would be getting a peep of what's to come....right after the teasers come to an end but before the launch  so hold on, be strong....meanwhile check out the website and the Zeppie page for updates

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SKULLDUGGERY : Carnival 2011 : SKETELLE-TON

The sections just keep coming ... that's Skullduggery for you.

SKULLDUGGERY : Carnival 2011, Ratchifee & Skullzman

Plenty of this stuff going on in the Carnival fraternity these days  talk about Skull!

Another SKULLDUGGERY SECTION: MAMAGUY

SKULLDUGGERY : Carnival 2011 MAL YEUX: MALJO

He Came He Saw, He Gave the Nod!

Internationally renowned Carnival Legend Peter Minshall paid a visit to the SKULLDUGGERY HQ last night to see just what Peter Samuel and his creative team have been have been up to with their highly anticipated Carnival 2011 presentation, ‘SKULLDUGGERY’ .

According to reports and the Skullduggery Facebook page Minshall approved of what he saw and gave them his blessings and a token of his support a rarely seen photo of him and one of his early designs, from the days Minshall’s Mas performed on the streets of Notting Hill in the 1970’s, before he was a house hold name in Trinidad and Tobago.

On the Fb page Peter Samuel had this to say, “Folks believe me ...that is not me in the photo with minsh, and it is NOT a photo shop either. This is an actual picture that Mr Minshall has passed on to us this evening with all his blessings. As it says, early 70's Notting Hill Gate... this is before the Humming Bird....”

So that’s one tick on Peter Samuel’s wish list for Carnival 2011, let’s see if the great spirit of Carnival grants him about 4 more?
here is that photo.

In the spirit of this Skull Pierrot, Harry the Midnight Robber and the Merry Monarch (He Who Laughs Last), Minshall comes out of the closet to wish Skullduggery the best.

Photographer: Horace Ove
Band: Play Mas Pierrot
Costume: Pierrot of Death
Early 70's Notting Hill Gate

SKULLDUGGERY : Carnival 2011, SECTION JAGABAT.....

Horn chile: SKULLDUGGERY Carnival 2011

Who section is this boy lol........