2026
Added 400 photos to my LoRes collection
Here’s a teaching experiment. 1.5 hours audio recording recorded at the Wave Organ. The recording (very slowly) introduces a close listening exercise and is meant to be consumed passively, in the background of one’s day.
To remember: my bedroom has been my workspace for the last couple of years, sadly. I’ve been staying/working in another bedroom this month. I like that the window wakes me up. When I work there’s no glare, but there’s still soft changing light behind me so my circadian rhythm doesn’t get messed up.
Headshot taken by Mel Taing
Some new notes on disability aesthetics: the love-hate relationship with functionality
Quick photo taken of the Ed Roberts ramp, and got a tour of the LightHouse from Chris. Checking out a some more playful spaces for my list days in SF and still on the list are Magical Bridge, the Exploratorium, the sensory garden over Salesforce Transit Center, and the Wave Organ…
Day 2… starting to poke around with departures from the original here and there, and testing a blur effect
First great day in San Francisco hanging out at the Disability Cultural Center for wheelchair repair night hosted by Liz Henry + others. Lugging my 32" monitor here was a nightmare. Might be time soon to switch to an audio-only computer (to just rip the screen off my laptop? hj…)
Was given this tactile camel panel from Perkins facilities, which blind students would use in the cottages to identify their rooms.
Pretty interesting Font Specimen from Grillitype, especially the italics: “GT Haptik is a monolinear geometric grotesque typeface. Its uppercase letters and numbers were optimized to be read blindfolded and by touching them.”
Wild experience in the Montreal airport recently: nonconsensual man-handling, nonconsensual help, all the rest… might write about it at some point here but it reminded me of Mona’s experience in the London underground. Wish i had caught it on camera like she did.
BDW Advocacy Update
And a companion piece from Richard Tuttle: “Art is life, and so it must contain all of life.”
A short, but powerful quote from Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin in the section ‘Solving Meets Exploring.’
“Design exploration may still require solving problems that arise along the way, but frequently as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. This is a subtle yet fundamental inversion of engineering methodologies that will usually include a creative exploration of alternatives, though as a means to the end of solving the core problem.”