[accessibleimage] bits and pieces

Bits and pieces

Sometimes I come over things that aren't directly related to accessible graphics but seem connected or am unsure. One is a picture that is being sold by IKEA that is also tactual. It is called Hallaryd and is advertised as having a "3d surface that can be both felt and seen" (translated from the Norwegian). It is an abstract picture made up of circles. If it is IKEA making a conscious effort to also sell art for the visually impaired well that is very interesting and wonderful. If not but just producing pictures, without thinking of the buyer, but which also invite the tactual sense is also wonderful.
The other was while reading Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norell by Susanna Clarke (sort of like Harry Potter meets Vanity Fair) I came across this "...knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been for a moment, deafened by the sight of the color blue." Seemed like a description of synesthesia.

I heard the other day a saying about the life of an idea that is at first a new idea is ridiculed, then next it is attached, and finally accepted and thought by everyone to be self-evident. So with the cropping up of tactile art in IKEA one would wonder and hope that art for the blind has become self evident. That is if one can assume that popular culture is a type of acceptance or what do you think?


Regards,
Lisa

Hallaryd
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15573&catalogId=10103&storeId=16&langId=-14&parentCats=null&news=1&categoryId=15573&productId=68955


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