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Being blind for an hour is awesome
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So today, WaM and I went to see Dialog in the Dark
and it was really really cool. It's currently in Atlanta and Kansas City.
Now you might be thinking, "So they dump you in a big dark room and you stumble around?". No, not exactly. You're given a cane and led into a seating chamber by a sighted guide, and you listen to a recording while the lights are brought down gradually until you're in complete darkness, absolute pitch black. That's when your visually-impaired guide enters and starts to lead you through the exhibit.
I'm going to spoil my thoughts, as half the experience is trying to discern where the fuck you are and what the fuck it is you're currently groping. So if you ever plan on attending, don't click.
I found the whole thing to be incredibly cool, and I highly, highly recommend you go see it if it ever comes through your city, or make a trip to do it, it's fucking incredible.
and it was really really cool. It's currently in Atlanta and Kansas City.
Now you might be thinking, "So they dump you in a big dark room and you stumble around?". No, not exactly. You're given a cane and led into a seating chamber by a sighted guide, and you listen to a recording while the lights are brought down gradually until you're in complete darkness, absolute pitch black. That's when your visually-impaired guide enters and starts to lead you through the exhibit.
I'm going to spoil my thoughts, as half the experience is trying to discern where the fuck you are and what the fuck it is you're currently groping. So if you ever plan on attending, don't click.
So first you're given this long white cane, and are told it's going to be your best friend for the next hour, and fuck yes it will be. You start out seated when they kill the lights, and there is a hand rail about 4 feet in front of you. The guide tells you to stand and approach the rail. It took me all of 10 seconds to realize I was well and truly fucked. I had no idea I relied so much on my vision to tell me where my legs are. I can't rely on my legs and feet to always tell me things like a normal person. Luckily our group was small, as it was only WaM, myself, and two nice ladies that routinely kept grabbing my ass, for no other reason then they were short, and evidently my ass was at perfect hand level when reaching out to explore what was around.
After you reach the rail, the guide tells you to approach their voice and go through the door. This was the first wall I walked into head first. I started using the cane a little more at this point. She laughed and helped me through the door.
The first exhibit is a park. complete with changes in the ground level, grass, dirt, fences, benches, branches, and all manner of shit to touch, stumble, and crash into. I quickly learned that relying on the cane was vital when it came to changes in the ground, as my crutch was pulling double duty as both support and navigation, and I was likely to tumble over if a obstacle caught me off guard.
Next we had to cross a wooden bridge and move into a more urban city street, complete with railings, curbs, mailboxes, cars, cross walks, poles, and lots and lots of noise. Throughout the exhibits, they play very realistic sounds, and the city street was by far the most disorienting. The curbs were a nightmare, fuck curbs, I already don't like them, I especially don't like them blind. Fuck curbs. This is also when I walked head first into a light pole. The guide once more laughed at me, though to her credit, she did it quietly.
Next we had to find the entrance to a market, and go inside and start really learning how to tell whats what by touch alone. It's incredible how your mind will start painting a map and painting images, which are almost always completely wrong. The market is a grope-fest, as everything is on racks and baskets, and the only way to find everything is to reach and start feeling. This is where the majority of ass-grabbing will occur.
Next you leave the market and get on a ramp going up to a boat. Once you reach the top of a very confusing ramp, a new attendant helps you and your guide onto a fake boat complete with virtual motion. This was a little tricky for me as I had the blind cane in one hand, and my fore-arm crutch in the other. I had to put my blind cane in my forearm crutch fingers and be completely helpless getting onto this thing. The others had no trouble at all, reach out, take the dudes hand, he helps you in. I had to literally pray my feet would find whatever it was I was stepping onto. Luckily, I have a feeling this attendant had night vision on, since he was waaaay too accurate in helping me. This was a nice 5 minute break to talk to your guide a bit and relax.
From there we walked down some more hallways and ramps and came to a cafe, where we were seated at a bar, and could order drinks. Soda, water, coffee, juice. You had to pay with only singles or quarters, which you were warned about before entering the exhibit. The waitress, who again, was either blind or had night vision, as she was making coffee, handling money, and was pretty God-Damn accurate as I had my hands clear back on the edge of the bar and she still found them instantly to get my attention and make sure I didn't want to order anything.
We stood up from the bar and walked over to a booth where we sat and drank our drinks with the guide and had a chance to talk and ask questions about being blind, how they adapt and handle everyday things, all that.
From there we exited out and for the first time in almost an hour, start to see a tiny glimmer of light. It builds up gradually as you exit until you emerge stunned in bright light of the lobby.
It's only now, that you realize that the person you've absolutely relied on for the past hour for your safety and your guidance.... you've never actually seen. None of the guides ever come out of the exhibit. It was kind of shocking in a way.
After you reach the rail, the guide tells you to approach their voice and go through the door. This was the first wall I walked into head first. I started using the cane a little more at this point. She laughed and helped me through the door.
The first exhibit is a park. complete with changes in the ground level, grass, dirt, fences, benches, branches, and all manner of shit to touch, stumble, and crash into. I quickly learned that relying on the cane was vital when it came to changes in the ground, as my crutch was pulling double duty as both support and navigation, and I was likely to tumble over if a obstacle caught me off guard.
Next we had to cross a wooden bridge and move into a more urban city street, complete with railings, curbs, mailboxes, cars, cross walks, poles, and lots and lots of noise. Throughout the exhibits, they play very realistic sounds, and the city street was by far the most disorienting. The curbs were a nightmare, fuck curbs, I already don't like them, I especially don't like them blind. Fuck curbs. This is also when I walked head first into a light pole. The guide once more laughed at me, though to her credit, she did it quietly.
Next we had to find the entrance to a market, and go inside and start really learning how to tell whats what by touch alone. It's incredible how your mind will start painting a map and painting images, which are almost always completely wrong. The market is a grope-fest, as everything is on racks and baskets, and the only way to find everything is to reach and start feeling. This is where the majority of ass-grabbing will occur.
Next you leave the market and get on a ramp going up to a boat. Once you reach the top of a very confusing ramp, a new attendant helps you and your guide onto a fake boat complete with virtual motion. This was a little tricky for me as I had the blind cane in one hand, and my fore-arm crutch in the other. I had to put my blind cane in my forearm crutch fingers and be completely helpless getting onto this thing. The others had no trouble at all, reach out, take the dudes hand, he helps you in. I had to literally pray my feet would find whatever it was I was stepping onto. Luckily, I have a feeling this attendant had night vision on, since he was waaaay too accurate in helping me. This was a nice 5 minute break to talk to your guide a bit and relax.
From there we walked down some more hallways and ramps and came to a cafe, where we were seated at a bar, and could order drinks. Soda, water, coffee, juice. You had to pay with only singles or quarters, which you were warned about before entering the exhibit. The waitress, who again, was either blind or had night vision, as she was making coffee, handling money, and was pretty God-Damn accurate as I had my hands clear back on the edge of the bar and she still found them instantly to get my attention and make sure I didn't want to order anything.
We stood up from the bar and walked over to a booth where we sat and drank our drinks with the guide and had a chance to talk and ask questions about being blind, how they adapt and handle everyday things, all that.
From there we exited out and for the first time in almost an hour, start to see a tiny glimmer of light. It builds up gradually as you exit until you emerge stunned in bright light of the lobby.
It's only now, that you realize that the person you've absolutely relied on for the past hour for your safety and your guidance.... you've never actually seen. None of the guides ever come out of the exhibit. It was kind of shocking in a way.
I found the whole thing to be incredibly cool, and I highly, highly recommend you go see it if it ever comes through your city, or make a trip to do it, it's fucking incredible.
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also I came into this thread thinking you had been ravaged by yet another cruel ailment
that sounds awesome
and also terrifying as hell
and also also the perfect place for a date
Really what they were trying to point out is that they like your arse.
Satans..... hints.....
that too
you can't watch a movie when you're blind
I came into this thread hoping you had been ravaged by yet another cruel ailment
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
this was also my expectation
It's perfectly safe.
You also lock up all your shit in lockers before-hand.
although i guess if it's inside and there's absolutely no light you're pretty well fucked anyway
sorry to disappoint
this sounds cool, but she had a cheesesteak so this wasn't the high point of her weekend
i am happy to find out you and wam had just had some fun times
And now I am on a scavenger hunt because from the sounds of it there are many to find!
too bad there isn't one near us
No, that was the Bang Camaro concert Sat night
It featured a 12 foot tall vagina made of like pink and red sheets and some suspended pillows and shit
and you walked into the vagina and there were cushions on the ground with headphone on them
and you sit on the cushion and put the headphones on and it's some woman saying "Cunt" in a variety of different funny voices for 90 minutes.
ART.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Stale has so many diseases he should start worshiping Nurgle.
Yesss
If they sell cd's of that I will pay you double the cost to get me one
Kunst
I feel it would be perfect to put third on a sex groove mix.
I went to the chinese cultural sex museum. Among the photos I was not allowed to put up in my facebook was an apple which had been turned into a vagina which then had snake coming out of it. A saddle is a wooden peg coming out of it used to punish women and a dildo that was used for "opening the passage prior to anal sex"
HISTORY.
Satans..... hints.....
sure, sounds about right
well I mean
she wasn't saying it in a monotone
she was like, speeding up and slowing down and raising and lowering the pitch and laugh talking and growling and screaming and it was horrible.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
and you guys saw Bang Camaro last night?
I wanted to see Bang Camaro last night.
dang
aahahahahaha
this thread started off great
now it's just fantastic
it's like an orgasm for the eyes
idea
everybody says the word "cunt" onto an mp3 and we edit them all together
alternatively wang
It took place on a stage which had a shell that could raise up for chamber performance acoustics.
The first movement was the two performers hurling marbles into a small box.
The second was the two performers from behind the shell throwing stuffed animals over the shell.
The third was the two performers popping around 100 balloons as fast as they could.
MUSIC
he didn't want kate to fly all the way down there just to play third wheel
people will eat it up here
Bang Camaro made one stop in Oregon, and it had to be at a fucking 21+ place.
Seriously fuck bars.
which is 21+ so I wouldn't have made it in anyway
Satans..... hints.....