After my last blog-post about the ‘Perceiving freedom’ sunglasses sculpture at Sea Point I have been scratching my head furiously about what to write about next. I have so many ideas and recent experiences of interesting installations and events that I am spoiled for choice. But, as so often happens, inspiration came to me quite by accident and once again involved “the things we miss. Friday, 21 March, was Human Rights day in South Africa, READ MORE
Tag: Audio Description
The Things We Miss | The Wonders of Audio Description
“Wow! Look at that,” my wife says. “Look at what?” I say, expecting some sort of explanation of a visual image. “There is a guy hanging off the sunglasses!” Wait… what! Sunglasses! “What do you mean he is hanging off the sunglasses?” “You know,” she says. “The sunglasses sculpture.” “No, I don’t know,” I say. “What sunglasses sculpture?” “But they have been here for ages,” she says. “No, I didn’t know…” “Can we go over READ MORE
The Things We Miss: Making a Case for Audio Description
In this webinar, courtesy of the Low Vision Centre of Learning, Jeremy discusses some of the realities of audio description in South Africa. Jeremy highlights how easy it is for blind and visually impaired people to miss out on so much that sighted people take for granted in film, television, theatre, art, heritage and sport. In his words, audio description is like ‘the best kept secret’ with, essentially, only Netflix offering any consistent audio description facility in South READ MORE