#access-a-ride

[magnetictapedatastorage]

literally nothing is funnier than how often paratransit divers tell me “you should try getting a CDL license. it pays really well and doesn’t take much to qualify” my brother in access-a-ride, are you fucking high right now? do you know what kind of people this bus is for? how many fingers am i holding up?

[ariamalula]

The Power of a Keyboard: An Evening with Disability Rights Lawyer Haben Girma

The Power of a Keyboard: An Evening with Disability Rights Lawyer Haben Girma

I did something for the first time on the evening of April 11: communicate with a deaf-blind person.

Using a keyboard presented during the evening’s lecture  on “Disability & Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusion” at Fordham University in the Bronx, I became a part of a world where I, an individual without a disability, can have meaningful connections with individuals who do have…

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[autisticadvocacy]

"Look what the MTA is doing. They're ignoring us," said one disabled rider.

NYC metro area; "The MTA board shut down complaints about the Access-a-Ride program from disabled riders"

[ongakusukikamo]

Hospital Escape / Access-A-Ride

ロバート・パティンソンがある日ネットサーフィンをしていたら、偶然にもサフディ兄弟があげていたネオン光りのスチール写真を発見。パティンソン、一目で惚れたのか「スチールを見た瞬間、僕には果たさなければいけない目的があるように感じたんだ」となかなかドラマチックな言葉をメールにしたためて、ジョシュ・サフディ宛に送信。それを見たジョシュは「オイ、ロバート・パティンソンからメールが来たんだけど。これ本当かな？返信したほうがいい？（笑）」とおどけながら弟のベニーに相談したところ「そりゃ会ったほうがいいでしょう」という彼の割と冷静な返答を受け、ロバートと対面することに。

ご対面の際には、ロバートが写真を見て受けた衝撃とそれに対する熱い思いに感心し、当時すでに「アンカット・ジェムズ」をつくる気でいたサフディ兄弟は軌道を修正し、「グッド・タイム」の制作に取り掛かった、というのが本作のバックストーリー。

サフディ兄弟が一つ大きな課題として挙げていたのは、作品とは全く異なる環境下で育ったロバート・パティンソンをどのようにしてコニーという人間に仕立てていくのか、というところ。普段あまり目にすることのない社会の生々しさを、できるだけ忠実に描くために努力を惜しまないサフディ兄弟ならではのアプローチは、なかなかおもしろい。

一つの方法として、ジョシュは映画には映し出されないコニーのバックストーリーをかなりこと細かく書き上げて、ロバートに渡していたそう。もう一つ、独自の刑務所ツアーを敢行したという。

どうやら刑務所を扱う作品を撮るときは実際の刑務所で「ハリウッドツアー」たるものが受けられるらしいが、ジョシュにはライカーズ島刑務所で監視員を務める友達がいたことから、ハリウッドツアー以上のツアーを敢行することができたそう。おかげで通常では見れないようなところまで見れたり、話せような人にも話せたりしたのだとか。

ちなみに緊迫感溢れる音楽は、ブルックリン生まれのワンオートリックス・ポイント・ネヴァーことダニエル・ロパティンが手掛けている。

[silentkim]

WHO THE HELL GETS UP THIS EARLY

What the fuck is wrong with me? The birds aren’t even singing and the sun hasn’t peek over the horizon. But I’m up on this dark, early, chilly morning pulling off my night clothes and stepping in the shower. I washed from head to toe and lotion from toe to head. I put on make-up!! Yes make-up, I sure hope I don’t rub my eyes and end up looking like a raccoon.

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[axsmap]

These days I am back on the treadmill. Not many people see my day to day. Maybe my 24/7 care aides know it best. This crude video sums it up. I dont like even watching myself on camera seating in a chair,shoulder slumped. Being hosted up into the access a ride. Driving from here to there for doctors appointments or to go to my office. I am just trying to keep some semblance of the Jason that I wanted to be.

However, this is not easy. Sleeping in a bedroom on my own. Day after Day stretches into weeks after weeks stretches into months after months, stretches into year after year. My expectations have been run over, Ive always pictured myself with a family that was nuclear and simple. But that is not the case. Being loved, being touched, being held, they are no more, in this reality, pushing and pulling of my body is by the occasional medical practitioner and by the man hands of care workers. Is my new normal. Roll me over, pull me out of bed, put me in the wheel chair, brush my teeth, give me a shower, dress me for the day, the routine is dark with my wife and son sleeping in a separate bedroom, on the other end of the apartment.  Is there no relief? It just feels like I am not part of the life I thought I was part of. Pile this on top of being severely disabled, life has become beyond my imagination. 

[silentkim]

If You Need Me

If You Need Me

New York, NY the city so bad they named it twice. I know everyone is in a hurry, hustling and bustling here and there where the rich, middle class and poor mingle on the same streets. It’s that energy makes me feel alive when I visit the city. New Yorkers are distinctive breed and I’m proud to be a native even if I live in Queens. We are trend setters in our style of dress, hair designs and NY…

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[vanniversary]

My first Vanniversary cake.