These are the links I’ve bookmarked recently on Delicious [October 20th to October 24th]:
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- Voluntary Sector Gateway MK | VOLUNTARY SECTOR GATEWAY MK – Managed and developed by Milton Keynes Council of Voluntary Organisations this website is where you can find out about about voluntary and community activity in Milton Keynes.
- everystockphoto – searching free photos – a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Bookmarks for May 27th
These are the links I’ve bookmarked recently on Delicious:
- The Clock Clock By Humans Since 1982 – Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created this genius clock made from 24 analogue clocks to act as a digital display using the clock hands to read the time.
- UK Photographers Rights v2 – This is intended to provide a short UK guide to the main legal restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to publish photographs that have been taken.
- EngageWorship: Resources and Training for Innovative, Creative Worship – engageworship.org is a new expression of the Music and Worship Foundation, furthering their vision and values for a new generation. We aim to resource youth, young adults and 21st century churches for innovative worship. We want to help people engage with God, each other and the world around them, through creative, multi-sensory acts of worship.
The Rolling Exhibition
Excerpt from an article in the Christian Science Monitor entitled “A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares“:
A 3-foot-1-inch tall man with no legs propelling himself along by his hands on a skateboard tends to warrant a fair share of attention.
People stare.
Sometimes they ask questions. Sometimes they make up stories on their own.
Montana State University film student Kevin Connolly relates a story: In a Bozeman grocery store, a young girl the same height as him asked, “Why are you on a skateboard?” Mr. Connolly replied, “Because I have no legs.”
“She just stared at me and had the best question I’ve ever gotten,” he says. “‘Is it a trick?’”
Connolly assures that it is no trick. He was born without legs.
His online exhibition is interesting in itself, but a great way into a discussion with Young People about appearance & perception, disability, or even the concept of ‘story’:
1 year ago I was asked by a little boy in Christchurch, New Zealand if I had been eaten by a shark.
2 months ago I was asked by an elderly woman in Sighisoara, Romania if I had lost my legs in a car accident.
6 weeks ago I was asked by a bar patron in Helena, Montana if I still wore my dog tags from Iraq.Everyone tries to create a story in their heads to explain the things that baffle them.
I love his counter-cultural approach to getting around too:
Connolly rarely uses his wheelchair, preferring his skateboard. And a pair of jeans-clad prosthetic legs stand in his apartment as a party novelty, unused since age 12.
“People are wanting effectively to put you in stilts,” he says. “Why?”
Connolly feels he’s just as able-bodied as anyone.”
