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Sci-Fi, Thriller, Rom-Coms – sie gibt es oft mit akustischer Beschreibung. Dass die Audiodeskription eine eigene Kunstform ist, beachten nur wenige.
Seit ihrer frühen Kindheit hat Barbara Fickert eine Sehkraft von sieben Prozent. Anfang der 90er werden ihre Augen langsam schlechter. Hell und dunkel erkennt sie noch, das Gesichtsfeld wird kleiner, ihre Lupengläser helfen nicht mehr. Und im Kino kann sie auf der Leinwand immer weniger erkennen. „Seither hat sich aber viel getan“, erklärt sie und meint damit auch Audiodeskriptionen – akustische Kommentare für TV- und Kinofilme, die in Dialogpausen das Geschehen beschreiben
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The Love and Terror of Nick Cave.
Unspeakable tragedy and grief had their way with Nick Cave, and his music had to change yet again.
Video: James Turrell’s singular quest to transform a crater into a natural-light observatory.
Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?
One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over?
The AI Cargo Cult.
Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities.
It’s possible that listening to non-computer scientists will slow the Silicon Valley machine: Diverse worldviews can produce argument. But slowing down in places where reasonable people can disagree is a good thing. In an era where even elections are won and lost on digital battlefields, tech companies need to move less fast and break fewer things.
How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon.
He says that, before he became a senior adviser to the President, he was a successful player in the film industry. But what did he actually do?
If only we saw the carnage that trauma surgeons see every day.