[accessibleimage] Re: Grafitti,gallery,exhibition

Hi,
I think it probably is a prototype made for a university class. However, I think it would be easy to make something similar by using double sided tape and paper with texture and/or dot texture made with a Brailler with self-adhesive plastic. I wrote that one could label, with words "red" "green" etc, but of course I think the texture would be more intuitive. 
What do you think?
Best,
Lisa


Vince Thacker wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder whether this touch rubik's cube really exists! You can go to the web site of the Chinese University where it it mentioned, but there isn't exactly an order form.
There are some Braille cubes on eBay, apparently originating from a Californian deaf group. There may well be others, but something seems to be lacking in the marketing department! 

Vince.
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Does anyone know where to purchase the Touch Rubiks Cube? I've searched and ... It would be great for our students. 

Thanks,

Robin Charles, Certified Braille Transcriber
Houston ISD
713-867-5159

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Hi,
Few more article, excerpts and links. One that I thought was very
interesting is about a Spanish artist, SpY and Braille graffiti.
Of the subject, but on the website of the artist he shows a Rubik cube
for lazy people, it is all in one color. But it got me wondering has
anyone put Braille labels on a Rubik cube? Googled a bit a found a touch
Rubik cube using different textures
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/rubiks-cube-for-the-blind-155779.php
Best,
Lisa

from a blog
Ever since I wrote an article on braille
<http://www.spurgeonworld.com/blog/archives/2007/02/the_return_of_b.html>, 
I've been discovering all sorts of weird and interesting applications of
braille text. Case in point...this work
<http://www.spy.org.es/galeria.php?idCategoria=2&pag=49> by the Spanish
artist known as SpY. Using a braille label maker, SpY creates messages
and leaves them in places that you can't see, but that blind people can
feel. He has a number of interesting art works that play with the bounds
of urban graffiti on his website <http://www.spy.org.es/>.

http://www.spurgeonworld.com/blog/archives/2007/02/graffitti_for_b.html
http://www.spy.org.es/galeria.php?idCategoria=2&pag=51
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PAM tour for the blind and partially sighted: A verbal and tactile
understanding of objects on display in "The Quest for Immortality:
Treasures of Ancient Egypt" exhibition. 9 a.m. Sat. Portland Art Museum,
Hoffman entrance, 1219 S.W. Park Ave.; $10 members, $20 non-members. $9
children; 226-0973.
http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1170888910184250.xml&coll=7 

article excerpt
http://verdeindependent.1upsoftware.com/main.asp?SectionID=19&SubSectionID=23&ArticleID=21210&TM=25322.28 
The light behind blind eyes

Mia is curious and fascinated with her world. Sometimes she is more
aware of things than are the sighted people around her. Her drawings and
pictures show how accurate her impressions of the world really are. She
uses a pencil and paper to draw people, animals and landscape features.

"Mia likes to interpret things the way they seem to her," Paula says.

When Mia is coloring pictures with crayons she asks for specific colors
-- yellow, blue or green. "I normally draw pictures of sky, sun and
grass," she explains. "I know what colors they are. My sister doesn't
like it when I ask her," Mia says, smiling. It seems like Mia is always
smiling.

When asked if her other senses, such as hearing, are sharper than her
sighted friends' are, Mia thinks a bit and starts to shake her head no.
Then she smiles again. "I can hear my mom's cell phone ring when she
sits on it," she says.

Clearly, some of her senses are sharper than those of most sighted
people. During an exercise in independent living, Mia pushes a grocery
cart through the aisles of Food City, mostly with only voice guidance
from Paula. She parks the cart, walks away, turns a time or two and
takes a product off the shelf. Then she walks directly back to

excerpt article
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200702170311.htm
*Soon, an Art Gallery for the 'less fortunate'*

New Delhi, Feb 17. (PTI): In the first of its kind, an art gallery
exclusively for physically and mentally challenged children across the
country would be set up in Delhi.

"Only the works of 'children with special needs' would be put up in the
gallery. For the purpose, children across the country and even abroad
would be included," says Dr Shyama Chona of 'Tamanna,' -- the NGO behind
the project.

"The aim is to create opportunities for children with intellectual
disability, multiple disability and autism to showcase their talents; to
provide a platform where they can interact with the normal people," she
adds.

Eminent artist Mannu Gupta would design the gallery.







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