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Story of Remarkable Blind Boy Inspires Kids to Overcome Challenges

#Story of Remarkable #Blind #Boy #Inspires #Kids to #Overcome Challenges with #TheBoyWhoOpenedOurEyes

Lightswitch Learning has published the children’s picture book, The Boy Who Opened Our Eyes which was inspired by a poem author Elaine Sussman wrote for a fifth-grade homework assignment in the 1950s. The book fulfills Ms. Sussman’s lifelong dream of sharing the story of her blind younger brother, Mark, with the goal of encouraging kids to achieve greatness regardless of any disabilities or…

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Tonight 6:30p: “Phase I: Drafts, Advanced Mechanics of Materials”  Zoe Beloff, Kamau Amu Patton, Mark Sussman  organized by Kaegan Sparks The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., NYC Admission is free on Thursdays, 6–8pm Phase I of Drafts, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, will consider drawing as an index of movement. Zoe Beloff will present a screening and talk on a multimedia project exploring the intersection of the cinematic apparatus, industrial management, and modernism. Kamau Amu Patton will present a live performance using an amplified extended drawing system. Mark Sussman will give a talk on contemporary toy theater and the live animation of objects, on both tabletop and screen.

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John Bell, "Puppets, Masks, & Performing Objects at the End of the Century" (TDR, Fall 1999)

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Mark Sussman, "Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception & Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player," (TDR, Fall 1999)

Pithy summaries:

We need a theory of performing objects (this is 1999, before Robin Bernstein wrote her essay "Dances with Things"). And the Automaton Chess Player illuminates a moment in the l. 18th century and well into the 19th when performing objects animated both demystification and reenchantment.

Pithy update on my mental health, DAY???? who knows:

After yesterday's nervous breakdown I managed to pull myself together enough to read through Said's Culture and Imperialism. But I haven't made out my notes yet. So here is a card with two essays on it, one which I read a few weeks ago and one which I read tonight.