lost and found
www.rnib.org.uk/getinvolved/lost/Pages/tell_us.aspx
Tell the lost and found campaign at RNIB what you would lose.
"Please take a moment and try to imagine a life without sight. We've already asked some of Britain's best loved celebrities to tell us what they'd lose from their lives and now we'd love you to share your thoughts.
Tell us what you think you would lose from your life if you lost your sight. Sight loss impacts people in different ways. While you do lose some things, you can adjust and many people find things as well. If you are blind or partially sighted, what do you feel you lost and what have you found? "
Raymond Blanc
"I can scarcely imagine the misery of losing all perception of colour - of not being able to see the scarlet changing to orange of a beautiful, ripe tomato; the gold skin of an apricot, or the gold flushed with red of a peach; the bright emerald of a skinned broad bean, the soft green of freshly podded pea, or the darker hue of a french bean."
Twiggy
"When I consider the question 'what would I lose if I lost my sight?', the answer is everything we take for granted, the things we see around us every day. The thought of no longer seeing the faces of my children, or my husband, is truly heartbreaking. It also makes me realise how lucky I am to have the greatest gift - sight."
Tessa Sanderson
"In my heart I would not lose the love that I have felt over the years for my family or remembering the good times I have shared with special people when sighted.
I would be deeply saddened by not being able to see all the beautiful things that god has created for us to see and enjoy seeing in this world and that includes the faces of my family and friends as they grow old with grace and charm.
My life without my sight would be a wilderness of darkness deep inside of me knowing that old lamppost light I often loved to see over the Winter months outside my home I would never be able to see again.
But although my world would change physically my life would not be over"
Nick Faldo
"It's difficult to pin down exactly what it would be that I would miss the most in that situation but I think it would probably be just the experience of looking into someone's eyes and seeing their emotion. The expression of surprise in my kid's eyes when they experience something new, or just someone looking back at you with a smile, the simple pleasures in life that I just can't imagine not being able to see. It's those small but powerful things that we often take for granted that I think I'd miss the most."
Kim
losing one sense, awakened others
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still life without audio
Please help to increase
the amount of audio
description on TV.
Currently, UK law sets a
target for all main TV
channels to provide
audio description for at
least 10 per cent of
programmes. RNIB
believes this target is too
low.
Ofcom, the organisation
which regulates TV, has
decided to consult
people on this issue. It's
a major opportunity to
improve the accessibility
of TV programmes for
thousands of blind and
partially sighted people.
The consultation is open
until 5pm on 12
November, 2009.
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Options offered by Ofcom
for the future provision of
Audio Description are:
Option 1: No change.
(Currently 58 TV
channels are required to
audio describe at least
10% of their content).
Option 2: Double the
amount of audio
description on TV. (An
increase in audio
description to 20 per
cent for all channels
required to provide
access services).
Option 3. An increase in
audio description to 20
per cent for the ten
statutory Public Service
Broadcasters. The 48
other channels required
to provide audio
description would
continue to be obliged to
audio describe 10 per
cent of their output.
RNIB believes that
Ofcom should implement
option 2: Double the
amount of audio
description on TV,
across all channels.
Please tell Ofcom that
you favour option 2.
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How can I respond?
You can fill in Ofcom's
online form here:
www.ofcom.org.uk/
consult/condocs/access_
services/howtorespond/form
It contains two questions
and your surname and
email address are
required.
The questions are:
1: Which of the three
options do consultees
favour, and why?
2: Do consultees have
any further suggestions
for future access service
provision? If so please
provide the rationale for
these suggestions.
You can also email the
required information to
Ofcom at
2009accessservicesreview@ofcom.org.uk
Or you can post your
response to:
Sara Winter, Ofcom,
Riverside House, 2A
Southwark Bridge Road,
London SE1 9HA.
To respond by email or
post you will need to
print out, complete and
sign the attached cover
sheet (in Microsoft Word
format).
If you would like to write
to Ofcom, RNIB have
created a draft template
letter to Ofcom for you to
use. Please visit the
RNIB website page here:
www.rnib.org.uk/GETINVOLVED/CAMPAIGN/ACCESSTOTV/AUDIODESCRIPTION/Pages/ofcom_access_rview.aspx
RNIB have also produced
a template letter to MP
(Word 32KB) for you to
use to write to your MP
to ask them to respond
to the consultation and
support the call for 20
per cent audio
description across all
channels.
Who is my MP? You can
find out from the 'Write to
them' website here:
www.writetothem.com/
You can also send an
email to your MP through
this website.
Please copy RNIB
campaigns into any
correspondence you
send or receive, to help
them to monitor the
campaign.
If you would like any
further information about
the Ofcom consultation
contact the campaigns
hotline on
campaign@rnib.org.uk or
telephone 0207 391
2123.
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moquette design for tfl competition
constructive critique welcome please.
a repeat motif variation of one of my signature series on architecture for humanity;
digital art with concentric circles, printed, peinture relief braille; hand~ applied commentry in concentric circles, scanned back into photoshop for colour pallette variation, and random rectangle finishing touch, which were simply repeated.
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daylight bulb
one of many, in the document of light series...much overdue a sound and light video scape...with collaged text voiceover...watch this space
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leopard slug
dedicated to lost and shrunken settlements, and other abandoned communities in Britain.
image; variation on a theme of sacgeo and blobby light, inspired by
text from Marcus Fellowes
twitter.com/marcusfellowes
and the mating ritual of lovely leopard slugs
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