A VISUAL SAMPLE

A visual sample from the book Portrait of a Legend and other Folks published by Jamaican photojournalist Lindsay Oliver Donald in August, 2013.

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Portrait of a Legend and other Folks.
330mm x 280mm
Hardback bound in black Colorado
300 pages.
240 black and white photographs printed on 170gsm silk paper.
Gloss laminated Dust Jacket
End paper grey.
ISBN:978-0-9576518-0-7

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BAD FRIDAY RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS

BAD FRIDAY
RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS
a conscious raising gift to give at Christmastime
Purchase at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/juniorgabuwedderburn for the audio cd
Purchase at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/deborahathomasjohnljacks for the dvd

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LOOKING FORWARD TO 2014

Greetings.
Before I decided to self-publish Portrait of a Legend and other Folks I did my research and continually update my knowledge about the book market. I decided to choose as my model probably the largest market on the planet, The United States of America.
Here are some key facts, as of July, 2013.
THE U.S. BOOK MARKET: Information about the U.S. economic situations in numbers: Area: 9,826,675 km2 Population: 316,278,000 Literacy rate: 97.9% Gross Domestic Product: $15.685 trillion Inflation rate: 1.8 (June 2013) Unemployment rate: 7.6 (May 2013)
"While all genres were strong, US publishers’ titles for children and youth, particularly Young Adult Fiction, showed powerful growth in nearly every international market and especially in Asia. The numbers were driven by contemporary authors and titles as well as perennial classics, both of which have strong global footholds. Fiction sales were particularly strong in print paperback editions. The consistent growth of e-books demonstrates that publishers have successfully evolved the technology environment for their content more so than other historically print-based content industries. E-books grew 45% since 2011 and now constitute 20% of the Trade market, playing an integral role in 2012 Trade revenue. The most pivotal driver of e-books remains Adult Fiction, with Children’s/Young Adult also showing strong numbers. While e-books keep growing, hard-cover and trade paperback formats continued to hold steady in 2012. The audio-book format, which has shown momentum over the past few years with the rise of mobile devices and interest in purchasing quality downloadable content for them, also remains solid." ~ GBO-New York.
According to BookStats figures released recently by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), books generated $25 billion in revenue in 2012, up 6.9% from the year before.
Conclusion:
In 2014, POALAOF publishing will focus primarily on the US market.
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DEAR FRIENDS

Dear friends.
Over a five year period I created a small publishing company named POALAOF.
In August 2013, and in the presence of the Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Her Excellency Mrs Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, POALAOF published its first book, Portrait of a Legend and other Folks. This is a 300 page, gold embossed, hard cover book containing my original work over thirty-five years and with words by Jamaican legend Bob Marley. It is a reasonably priced book to both individuals and corporations and the self-published author is a trend that will become a mandatory element in the publishing business in the future. At this time POALAOF has succeeded in start-up but is still short of an important goal of obtaining adequate working capital.
I would now like to extend to my friends a golden opportunity to become a part of this potentially incredibly profitable business. To ease any concerns you might express about the risk involved, keep in mind that I am not asking for any large investment as I plan to offer a percentage of the profit after expenses. As a sole-trader, I can explain in more detail what that means, but rest assured that it will serve to allay any concerns you have about your own economic risk.
POALAOF has already separated itself from the competition because Portrait of a Legend and other Folks contains probably some of the last unpublished photographs of Bob Marley. POALAOF will also utilize the many social media outlets available on the Internet and will shortly have a dramatic web presence that is currently being created by a reputable web-site designer. Therefore, POALAOF will not be limited and will potentially have a global customer base. Market research has indicated that because there is a high Bob Marley fan base worldwide, Portrait of a Legend and other Folks will become affordable because with adequate investment, the printing of a larger stock of books will dramatically lower the cover price. POALAOF intention is also to fill the gap between the high-end, prohibitively expensive customized books, and the lack-lustre paper back lower end market. POALAOF will therefore offer an exciting alternative in the form of a memorable book that will also be affordable.
The global book market dwarfs those of films and music combined and the American market alone generate sales in excess of US $27 billion each year. Companies and multi-national corporations are experiencing more and more needs for gifts: congratulatory gifts, sympathy gifts, gifts to welcome a new high-level employee or simply to give thanks to a long-standing employee. In addition, the clientèle for corporate gifts is constantly expanding. Practically any kind of business represents an opportunity to provide steady revenue from an adequately priced book.
POALAOF cash flow is admittedly constricted and currently non-existent during this initial phase. Once adequate investment is secured for the production of a larger stock of books, revenues will begin to flow and POALAOF can then move toward publishing more affordable books and ebooks. Cash flow difficulties are faced by all new businesses and POALAOF is therefore not exempt. POALAOF also applied for a Small Business loan but currently there is an enormous amount of competition for these loans and with no adequate collateral POALAOF application was refused. Despite that however, I have pursued all possible avenues for investment capital and after three months, I believe it is now time to take a chance to ask those friends with long term visions to think positively about this opportunity.
Over a period of five years I conducted a great deal of research and am well aware of the risks involved in any new venture, but I firmly believe that this is a business opportunity that is bound to grow. Currently, there is very little competition and none of them have the unpublished images that adorn Portrait of a Legend and other Folks.
Please consider helping with much needed working capital because Portrait of a Legend and other Folks will become an important piece of documentary work in the future.
Thanking you.
Lindsay Oliver Donald. November, 2013.
Photograph: Mr Ron Vester.


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MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST

DEAR SANTA,
HERE IS MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST.

 

 

 

 

http://www.poalaofthebook.com/

 

 

 

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kalikata-mbula.html

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8848203

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Steppin-Razor-Life-Peter-Tosh/dp/144175251X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384629540&sr=1-1&keywords=JOHN+MASOURI+STEPPING+RAZOR

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Marley-The-Making-Legend/dp/B00A30R8MU

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/A-Movement-Oku-Onuora/dp/B00CWGBVAS

 

http://www.amazon.com/Neville-Garrick/e/B001HD14VS

http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Marley-Son-Cedella-Booker/dp/product-description/0878332987

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Marley-Complete-Annotated-Bibliography/dp/0578039400

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/On-Road-Bob-Marley/dp/0615760961

IRIGINAL LIMITED EDITION BOB MARLEY T-SHIRT

I just received this image showing Mr Damian Marley displaying his Iriginal Limited Edition Bob Marley t-shirt with Mr Stephen Marley and Mr Julian Marley at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival.

I think the others are keeping theirs in a safe place.

And no, I did not take one pic that day as I was busy hob-nobbing with the stars backstage.

Lol....!!!
 

 

 

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DEAR SANTA MAY I PLEASE HAVE POALAOF FOR CHRISTMAS?

THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT.
ORDER NOW!!
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DEAR SANTA,
I HAVE BEEN GOOD THIS PAST YEAR. MAY I PLEASE HAVE PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS UNDER MY CHRISTMAS TREE?
I LEFT COOKIES AND MILK OUT FOR YOU AND YOUR REINDEERS SANTA.

RAS SAM BROWN MYSTIC, POET, ORATOR, SAINT, PAINTER

I was blessed to spend many a days reasoning with both Sam Brown and Mortimo Planno.
Ras Sam Brown photographed at the home of Robert Nesta.
56 Hope Road. Kingston. Jamaica. 1980.
Photograph © Lindsay Oliver Donald

 

 

Ras Brown is one of the most complex personalities within the Rastafarian movement. He combines in his person the attributes of a mystic, poet, orator, saint, painter, and what a government official called “a lovable rascal.” In his presence at one given moment, one feels free and relaxed, and in the next moment tense and frightened. Since the early beginnings of the movement he has...

been one of the most ardent Rastafarians and is today one of its most important poets, if not the best. Born in the parish of Trelawny in 1925, he attended the local elementary school and was so brilliant a student that it is reported he won a scholarship to a prestigious secondary school in Kingston, but failed to accept the offer because of poverty. After working at various trades he became interested in printing. By 1965, when the author [Leonard E. Barrett, Sr., THE RASTAFARIANS] met him, he was without a job and was the leader of a group of brethren in Back-O-wall. He told the author how vividly he remembered the night he heard Marcus Garvey in Edelweise Park, when he was only five years of age-a mere tot brought by his mother who was a member of the Garvey movement.

 

 

Judgement ~ Ras Sam Brown
Judgement
I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9...
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Or is it shame
Mayors, teachers, bull dikes, ____, pastors an priests
Everyone stan for the mark of the beast
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Or is it shame
Mayors, teachers, bull dikes, ____, pastors an priests
Everyone stan for the mark of the beast
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

 

ABORTION ~RAS SAM BROWN
O terrible sin abortion! It is the worst of all
Eight letters spell the deadly sin, so is downfall
The wickedness of murderess destroy the yet unborn...
They never gave the seed a chance to see creation's Morn.
There are many who defend such acts based on economy
Heartless creatures-if they had been aborted-they'd be non-entities
It is said man should multiply, he should replenish earth
Yet in the eyes of wicked men, the unborn is of no worth.
It is given to man to use all things, yet life is God's control
If God had aborted First Man, there wouldn't be a living soul
Some shades of people take hormones, they try to live forevever
Yet for the other shades of men, destrucion is their endeavor
The earth create with broad expanse that men should be prolific
But the crude acts of the seeming wise, prove men's minds are sick
When the enemies are at thy gates, thine offsprings are arrows in thy bows
With thy large united house, the enemies are laid low
Some people love their people, they control food not birth
From the born to the yet unborn each has a place on earth
So it is for all to shun such acts that man may live his days
Dread repercussion shall be their lot for persistence in evil ways.

 

#15 Beat Them ~ Ras Sam Brown
Beat them
Leave the street
Come into beat...
Beat them
Beat them
Wait a minute
Beat them
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Beat them
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Beat
Ah run come help me beat the drum
Ah run come help me beat the drum
Oh in the night
No brother got no fight
Beat the drum an make we all unite
Beat

In 1913 The Rastafarian came
With an ancient but new philosophy
He told mankind
That God must rule
His government His theocracy
The Rastamon come
To wipe out important religions
We are those come to banish fear
An free the minds of man
The isle of Jamaica
There originate
From the dust of nothing else
They were hounded harrassed an murdered
For that stand through the test
Our name an fame
Throughout every land
____ _____ _____
We make your stand
To manifest
The brotherhood of man
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Wait a minute
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them'

 

#16 Natty March ~ Ras Sam Brown
Today man
Is engaged in conferences
Trying to find a solution...
They will have to return
What is not their's
That is the only conclusion
Religion can not escape the word of truth
Neither stand it or dispute
Rastafari Theocracy
Now tells the world the truth
Religion seeming piousness
Mark the hearts of ____
They do the most immoral things
Modern Sodom and Gomorrah
The people they mislead
Eventually reaps their own
Those saints that passed as men of God
So much afraid to die
They should be glad to go to heaven
With angel's wings they'll fly
History proves
Pastors and Priests
Are mafia and pirates
They rob and kill without fear
For each is of their flock
They do not have a care
Woe's to the pastors
That mislead the sheep
Of they're deeds we're aware
Rastafari Theocracy
Comes to smash the canker
An banish religious fear
Rastafari cannot be _____
We are here to Rastacize the earth
An enquiring man
One God One Faith One Birth
Hopes an_____
Gratifying flesh
They are weapons of destruction
They decimate
An kill innocent ___
Without the least combunciton
We cannot fight war
To bring forth peace
That is a fallacy
From the art of divine Creation
Revenge will never be
Man will have to discard such fantasy
To set his spirit free
For again this downpression
Sometimes words go ___
With numerous conferences and parties
There is still
To find of a solution
Colonization and stabilization
Has brought rich nations poor
They are now battering on they're door
They will not take no more
The money being spent on arms
Would have best been funded on food
Warmongers of earth
Your arms cannot save
They put the people in angry mood
Man is a ___ ____
____ _____ no one can tell
Daniels books are prophetic words
That predicted the doom of man
For despite the apocolypse an plans
They will not be able to stand.

 

THREE LITTLE BIRDS

 

         BOB MARLEY'S THREE LITTLE BIRDS IN THE STUDIO

 

  Photograph © Lindsay Oliver Donald

 

Marcia Griffiths ~ When we went to different places in Europe and I saw the multitude of people that came out to see this man, Bob Marley, I prayed every time I saw this multitude. I always asked God that if it is even a handful of these people will receive the message and hear the word and wouldn’t fall on deaf ears, the message that he was delivering to the people. I knew then that Bob was truly a messenger, through the medium of reggae music.

 

 

  Photograph © Lindsay Oliver Donald

 

Judy Mowatt ~ I had gotten to realize, you know reading my Bibles, that this man was really Joseph in his second advent. Joseph who his brothers had sold into Egypt. It was Joseph who had redeemed his brothers, who would have starved to death because of the famine in Egypt and not only his brothers but for the world in that time and I saw in the man in this time that he came not only in this time with the physical corn to feed his people but he came with the spiritual corn which was the message that transcended to the four corners of the world.

 

 

                                                    Photograph © Lindsay Oliver Donald

Rita Marley ~Bob was born rich, that was his quality. His richness was on the spiritual level, the gift of God. The inspiration that he had to give was His glory.