Valero Doval's collages
January 9, 2011 10:41 AM Subscribe
Valero Doval created a marvelous image for an Oliver Sacks' article about neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity to create new pathways. The artist's other collages are also excellent: Aerofauna | Wonderful World | EnigmaticCities | Portraits.
Signed prints.
Signed prints.
The article is really interesting. I experience lip-reading in the same way - if I can't see someone, I can't hear them. Documentaries or other shows with voiceovers are really hard to watch.
posted by desjardins at 11:16 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by desjardins at 11:16 AM on January 9, 2011
I remember awhile back having a conversation with the comptroller of my small company, who was a fairly successful woman then in her late 40's; she had worked as an auto mechanic before moving into accounting (due to her family association with the owner) and had a wide range of knowledge and skills. We often chatted as we both tended to arrive very early for the work day, and one day I happened to mention a novel I was reading and she frowned. "I don't understand how people enjoy reading," she said. "I find it tedious."
It developed that she had never gotten the trick which I take for granted of automatically "hearing" the words as my eyes scan them. Even after reading for 40 years she had to laboriously sound out each letter in order to figure out each word. When I told her that I glance at the page and with no effort at all simply hear a voice, often an appropriate one for the topic at hand, narrating it for me she was dumbstruck. It had never occurred to her that such a thing was possible any more than it had occurred to me that other literate people couldn't do it.
I think a lot of the more talented programmer / coders out there are also like this, treating programming as a language skill rather than a discipline. I've always joked to the people who are so impressed with the stuff I build at work that if Kevin Costner's native Americans gave me a name it would be Speaks With Computers.
posted by localroger at 4:28 PM on January 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
It developed that she had never gotten the trick which I take for granted of automatically "hearing" the words as my eyes scan them. Even after reading for 40 years she had to laboriously sound out each letter in order to figure out each word. When I told her that I glance at the page and with no effort at all simply hear a voice, often an appropriate one for the topic at hand, narrating it for me she was dumbstruck. It had never occurred to her that such a thing was possible any more than it had occurred to me that other literate people couldn't do it.
I think a lot of the more talented programmer / coders out there are also like this, treating programming as a language skill rather than a discipline. I've always joked to the people who are so impressed with the stuff I build at work that if Kevin Costner's native Americans gave me a name it would be Speaks With Computers.
posted by localroger at 4:28 PM on January 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
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