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...design and sculpture who only turned to photography after losing his vision in the mid-1980s. He opens the shutter on his camera and then uses flashlights, lasers, lighters, and candles to paint his scene on film. He explains: "The human brain is wired for optical input, for visualization. The optic nerve bundle is huge. Even with no input, or maybe especially with no input, the brain keeps creating images. I'm a very visual person, I just can?t see." "Sighted photographers always talk about the difficulty of what they call 'seeing,'" Eckert adds. "I tell them...
...ACLU maintains that only by releasing the photographs - collected during the Pentagon's various investigations and involving a half-dozen sites - can Americans determine for themselves how widespread, and sanctioned, such abuse was. "These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib," said Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer...
...born.”Launched in April 2007, INeedAPencil.com offers SAT prep for free. It provides lessons and practice test questions, and users are able to customize their sessions to fit a certain time frame. But INeedAPencil.com also adds special features to the typical program. These include a visual progress chart that keeps track of completed lessons, a score projector that calculates the actual expected test score based on aggregate performance, and even a “confidence calibrator” that allows users to indicate the level of confidence in their answers. “It hones your ability...
...LEGOs. There's a detainee getting waterboarded - by LEGO figurines. There's President Bush declaring "Missing Accomplished" - standing at a LEGO podium. "By using toys, I hope the viewer will linger longer over the image and think again about what is actually being depicted or described, in a visual language that is recognized by us all: LEGO," wrote Legofesto in an e-mail...
...center and that galaxies merge,” Loeb said. “The Milky Way galaxy was made out of building blocks of dwarf galaxies, which came together.” General relativity calculations give evidence for the existence of the black holes—if visual evidence is found within astronomical observations, the black holes would “test the predictions of general relativity,” O’Leary said. The cluster is expected to be highly compact and the “black hole will give the stars higher speeds...