:Title: Seeing Beyond Sight: Photos by Blind Teenagers :Author: Tony Deifell :Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:37:55 PDT :URL: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/45/ Great to see all the O.net folks I've come to know and love here on Ned... and looking forward to meeting new folks. I started a group on O.net two years ago to help get feedback for my first book - `Seeing Beyond Sight`_. The community was incredibly helpful as I put the book together, doing the `Blind Photography Challenge`_ and then in being a partner on the `SEEING BEYOND SALON`_ that brought out 500 people to the book launch and interactive-art party in San Francisco. I can't thank you all enough! .. _`Seeing Beyond Sight`: http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org .. _`Blind Photography Challenge`: http://www.omidyar.net/group/soundshadows/news/16/ .. _`SEEING BEYOND SALON`: http://www.omidyar.net/group/soundshadows/news/21/ I've been trying to keep everyone informed about the progress of the book, film, exhibit, etc. and I had a google video that I didn't get online in time before o.net closed. Here it is... ============ .. raw :: html It is the keynote address I gave at the `Social Enterprise Alliance`_ national conference in Long Beach, CA (April 2007). I tell some stories and show some photos from the blind photographers I taught - and I tie it in to what "seeing" (in the broadest sense of the word) means to be a social entrepreneur. .. _`Social Enterprise Alliance`: http://www.se-alliance.org Come to the `next Social Enterprise conference`_ in Boston March 9-11, 2008! I'll be there... and I think Mark Grimes is going too. .. _`next Social Enterprise conference`: http://www.se-alliance.org/summit.cfm ============= I also just put up a few other video clips on youtube from the documentary we're producing about a road trip across North Carolina to track down my former students. Some students had given up photography, many had continued with it, but all of them tell both humorous and sobering stories of what it is like being blind. View and subscribe (we'll post more videos soon): http://www.youtube.com/SeeingBeyondSight