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Ruth Brown
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Covering NY again at The Associated Press. Australian in NYC.
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Not the main point here, but I think it would be great if reading comic on WNYC once a week was a standard responsibility for NYC mayors
itsstillalex.bsky.social Alex? Alex. I am Alex. @itsstillalex.bsky.social · Jul 9
new issues of fantastic four opens with a great page
Two comic book styled panels of Mr. Fantastic fighting Dr. Doom in the latest issue of Fantastic Four. Blind artist Alicia Masters narrates over them. "When you want to make comics accessible to blind people, one size doesn't fit all. Some of us care about what the characters look like. Most blind people still have SOME vision, after all. For others, it's irrelevant, especially if what people look like doesn't actually impact the story." A man in glasses sits in front of an old radio microphone, reading a newspaper. "In July 1945, there was an newspaper-delivery strike in NYC. In response, the mayor went on the radio and read out the funny pages, ensuring that the city's comic-loving kids wouldn't be impacted by what the adults were doing. He described what was happening in the comics, did voices for all the characters, brought it to life." A child sits in front of an old radio, smiling. "It was to score political points, but it also made comics accessible to millions of people -- for free and by no less a person than the mayor of New York City himself. People who'd never been able to read comics before suddenly could experience them."
July 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM
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“At a certain angle from up high, the garden with its room for chairs took on a phallic shape which was unintended and unexpected.”
Why a Sydney private girls’ school had to hastily redesign its garden
School staff were oblivious to what the garden looked like from above until they sent a drone to film the progress of landscaping works from the sky.
www.smh.com.au
July 5, 2023 at 1:09 AM
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I guess we’re skeeting now. Here’s something:
May 10, 2023 at 4:44 AM