Art and music

[kestrell]

Kes: I'm particularly excited about this pairing of music and art as I think it has potential for allowing blind individuals to access art through its associations with the art form of music. It reminds me of a book which combines art and poetry titled _The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art_ by John Hollander which also possesses this sense of shared aesthetics between the visual and the audible.

All this month on WCDB in Boston host Cathy Fuller will be featuring a work of classical music that complements one of the works of art in the new Art of the Americas wing of the MFA.
Read about it by going to
995allclassical.org
and browsing to the link titled
Music and Art for January
Kes: I can't find any more specific info about when this airs on the radio, but I do know that it is between noon and four in the afternoon.

Comments

[kestrell]

Hey J, that's really sweet of you to send me beads!

I kind of am trying to find perks for today--I had a really negative accessibility experience earlier and it just really depressed me. Green Man Review, the online mag for which I have done reviews for a few years, just went to a blog format. I requested when this was first proposed that we include accessibility, the editor and head tech person both agreed, and then I didn't hear anything during the porting process. Today I went to post a review and surprise, it's on WordPress but still uses these links labeled with images and not text, and those pulldown menus are not accessible. The tech's reply when I mentioned these elements were not accessible? "I'm confident that you'll figure it out." She did offer to post for me, but I've found that this is really nto a good experience (the point of a blog is that you are able to post to it and read it immediately).

I don't think it would have depressed me so much if people hadn't been so positive about including accessibility in the first place. And I am tired of having to argue that access means more than just being all PC, it means actually following through and your promises.

Sorry for ranting, but I know you probably get the "I'm tired of fighting this fight...again" thing. I think I will go crawl into my comfy reading chair with Lord Peter and hang out until Alexx comes home with drugs and a BLT (some days really call for crispy pig parts).

[jesse_the_k]

Damn, that's shitty news about the Green Man. You've written lots of things for them, so it's not like you're some unknown quantity. (Not that this should make a difference ... but).

In a perfect world, I would have the energy to write a polite and firm letter excoriating them for giving me more working. Ask them how they'd like it if you required they put all communicate in braille. There are plenty of braille producers in the Boston area — "I'm confident you can figure it out."

However, today, I feel more like a flaming bag of dogshit on the doorstep. Lord Peter is always good. Hey! There's 81 Lord Peter fanfics on the Archive of our Own here's a linky. Sorry, no reviews, but it might be a close second to good bacon.