Blind Abilities offers Part 7 in their series: The Process Of Creating A Podcast. In this installment, Pete Lane works with a variety of audio clips, two of which he inserts into the interview to create transitions from topic to topic, and one of which is used to illustrate a discussion item in the interview. Pete explains how transitions sounds can vary depending upon the nature of the podcast as he builds his project towards its culmination in...
Blind Abilities presents a trio from Project Starfish who are collaborating with Blindfold Games in support of the Blindfold Racer National Challenge. Nasreen, Karl, and James discuss the details around this exciting game contest, slated for October 1 through 14, 2016. There is a brand new game created exclusively for this challenge which is now available in the IOS App Store. Check it out, practice and get ready to go live on October 1st!...
Adam Perry left work to learn about his blindness and figure out how he could accept his predicament. He knew his future vision loss was uncertain, but certain. Adam has RP, a degenerative eye disease that can slowly take away one's vision and Adam is quite aware of the changes that are happening and how he has to adjust to the ever changing perspective as he travels the world working on International cultural Engagements in the Arts. Join Jeff...
Stephen Letnes is a concert pianist and a Film Composer who just happens to be Sight challenged. With over 80 scores and a Christmas movie coming out November 15th, 2016, the last 4 months have been busy, busy, busy. And Stephen likes it that way. Santa’s Boot Camp is the title Stephen scored entirely and Sony has picked up the movie for a late fall release just in time for the holidays. From his studies of others playing on YouTube to his...
Cheryl macintosh A.K.A. @MoeLucie talks about her passion for sharing her experiences and her knowledge of Nutrition, College Education, Accessibility and how important it is for us to share what we have experienced. Jeff Thompson interviews fellow Blind Abilities team member, Cheryl, finding out what drives her to reach her goals and how she likes to give back to others what she has learned and experienced. She is finishing up her Masters...
Blind Abilities Presents, Part 6 - The Process Of Creating A Podcast Pete Lane shares Part 6 in his series: The Process of Creating A Podcast. Pete has gone through his own, in depth process of producing a full length project, the completed podcast for which was published on Blind Abilities on May 27, 2016. Pete walks through his step by step process, beginning with a recorded Skype interview with Erica Turner. From there Pete demonstrates...
Cheryl McIntosh, Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane chat with their guest, Dr. Denise M. robinson, PhD and Educator of the blind. Dr. robinson provides a wealth of services, including one on one “applicable” instruction to students remotely using Skype. She employs innovative and proven techniques for teaching students countless subjects in conjunction with the public school systems using multiple tools. Check out Dr. robinson’s numerous...
Blind Abilities offers the fifth in the series, The Process Of Creating A Podcast. In this episode, Pete Lane walks us through his process of creating the multi-track Intro for the Erica Turner podcast. Pete demonstrates multi track creating using a music bed (So Many Reasons to Rejoice, by Eddie Robinson), and pasting descriptive voice clips using the “Paste to a new track” Command + Option + V. Pete then demonstrates a process that yields...
Join Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane and their guest, Suman Kanuganti, Co-founder and CEO of AIRA. AIRA leverages smart glasses, such as Google Glass to provide a dynamic service to blind users. Beginning with the Explorer program slated to begin in September and October of 2016, this device and the service associated with it promises to be a viable benefit with infinite potential for the blind for years to come. Listen to Jeff and Pete as they...
Join the Blind abilities Team of Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson as they talk to Dan Parker about his life changing racing accident and how he has set goals to overcome the challenges from losing his eye sight and more than anything, not losing his vision of racing again. Dan is the 2005 World Champion racer who now uses his skills and confidence to re-invent himself as the World’s Fastest Blind Man. Racing is a family tradition and getting back...