#visual AIDS

[eywaseclipse]

Here’s another edit I made last year of Olo’eyktan Neteyam. I make these because we’re never going to see him take these mantles.

Please do not repost my edits and use them for yourself or post them elsewhere!

[blurry-eyes4u]

Wow! I’ve fallen in love with this amazing eye doctor trying coke bottle glasses 🤓 I bet he couldn't resist the temptation to try them on and experience the feeling being such a very nearsighted man

[awkwardbros]

Nuff said my friend. Ok. Just give me a minute to sort this wild message out.

Ok… it could be more than that. This runs all over the board which could be exactly the point or super ironic given the tattoo. How much weight do we give intention here? Can someone with a paid subscription to a visual AI service run this through? It you can afford the subscription, you have the time. Just sayin.

…You know, I’m betting either myself or a fireman might be coming for this guy and not for any reason anyone is thinking right now.

[valiantstarlights]

Part (2/?) stuff I'm dedicating to @designtheendless to thank them for their beautiful art of my 101 Dalmatians Meet Cute AU 😭🙏

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Inspired by this tweet:

[sprinkleofquirk]

My first attempt at a movable “tracker” visual aid/prompting type bracelet

This one is for morning/evening routine and includes getting dressed, brushing teeth, brushing/combing hair, and eating breakfast/dinner

Let me know what you think and where I can improve!

(And apologies for the shaking- I tried my best but I have a slight tremor 🫠)

[rickkanelives]

I'm proud to have a piece in this weekend's Postcards from the Edge show in Manhattan! All sales benefit the awesome organization Visual AIDS.

Details at: https://postcards.visualaids.org/

[tokenmenagerie]

A little behind the scenes of what goes into each card set. ✨✂️ Disclaimer: do as I say, not as I do. Use👏 a 👏 ruler 👏 with a 👏 safety 👏 guard.

[cpunkwitch]

I remember when we didn’t wear glasses

We could move around perfectly fine, but everything was blurry shapes all the time

Now it’s been many years lol

And I have a correct glasses prescription

Whenever I don’t have them on, it’s terrible lol

I bump into everything

Which makes me realize when I was younger I thought I was doing a lot better than I was

I had a lot of bruises from aggressively bumping into things TvT

My ability to get around was perfect essentially

My ability to see where I was going? Not so much-

But i’m grateful for my glasses

Does not make them a mobility aid- definitely a visual aid! And a very nice one to have at that!

Agreed <33

[kaliarda]

Red Reminds Me... Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024

[walls-to-the-ball]

Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) from Visual AIDS ..."Working in part from his late father’s photographs, Ellis developed a unique process whereby he projected, deconstructed, and re-imaged his family history, creating uncanny portraits marked by voids and warps. His commitment to the self-portrait was no less inspired, particularly after his experiences of being photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar. Ellis was on the cusp of major recognition when his life was cut short by AIDS in 1992, at the age of 33."

[blurry-eyes4u]

I've fallen in love of The thickness of those lenses

[valiantstarlights]

Part (1/?) stuff I'm dedicating to @designtheendless to thank them for their beautiful art of my 101 Dalmatians Meet Cute AU 😭🙏

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Inspired by this tweet:

[kartikv2580]

[xtrablak674]

[From my Livejournal - Sunday, July 22, 2001 at 1:17pm - edited for clarity]

Ho hum bored. I seriously need a new client. My work with the body.com is cute and all but it isn't going to be enuff to support this "workless" phase of mine, by September though it will be a full year since i worked, which i think will be so totally cool.

[I don't recall exactly how long I did web-based design work for The Body, maybe a couple of years? I think Bonnie was my contact there she would send me little projects, and I would get a little money for them. I recall designing two different tote bags along with a redesign of the Visual AIDS website, a hub for the artwork of HIV positive artist, amongst other things. It was a cute remote gig. I would say I was a little bit designer a little bit production artist. I think I did some coding too for them since it was also in my skill set.]

I am very happy to not have worked or had the desire to work that long. Its been so therapeutic, But I really need to make a bigger effort to find some client work to do, so I can continue my respite. I got this guy i am sort of talking too, the funny thing is i am not really obsessing over him, or thinking about him a lot like I usually do with new guys i am dating, I guess since I am so wrapped up in my own life, I don't really have time for him...

But I guess with basketball every weekday, I am keeping myself more busy outside. Wednesday is comic book day, where i usually shoot some hoops in the morning, then go to the comic book shop later in the day, and then go chill in the park and read my comics, being careful not to interfere with the bees, whom always seem to still be at work when I am there. I feel bad, if bees are out working and collecting honey etc.

[I still have my black basketball in my house. I sort of forgot about my basketball months, down on the other end of Washington Avenue just beyond Myrtle Avenue. I was no Kareem Abdul Jabbar I was just looking for an activity to get me out of the house, the two mile walk, one there and one back was good a long with the running around of playing basketball. I wasn't old at this time but not necessarily a teenager either.

I would stop collecting comic books I think in 02 or 03, I couldn't financially support the expenditure of what thirty to forty bucks per week anymore. It would take me another few decades before I even looked at comics beyond the early aughts. And then even later where I would just download bootleg digital comics, since they take up no physical space.]

Why do i have the right to be chilling and not working?? Well its has a lot to do with the fact that I have had to deal with so much responsibility all my life, its my time to live with very few responsibilities, and I am very happy about my decision, truly happy. And I really want to keep this lifestyle up, doing this project based work. In which I am just in and out. DONE.

[This is something very very real for me, due to my mom's parentification, hold for explanatory comma,

Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to support the family system in ways that are developmentally inappropriate and overly burdensome. For example, it is developmentally appropriate for even a very young child to help adults prepare a meal for the family to eat, but it is not developmentally appropriate for a young child to be required to provide and prepare food for the whole family alone

Now my mom wasn't having me purchase food for for the family, but she was emotionally burdening me with the fiscal responsibilities of the household which was totally in appropriate. I had no clue how to help her make ends meet, at nine, or how to cover the rent, or find the money for a car repair. But I did attempt to give ideas or advice, and right when I found her dead I was going to ask her if I could get a job delivering papers so I could earn money for the house.

I don't think it was her intention to be developmentally inappropriate with her child, I think she just lacked a good support system of friends as an adult raising three children under the age of ten by herself. The fact that I was so emotionally tuned into her feelings and moods, and my natural intellect made me appear to be more mature than I really was.

This followed me into adulthood where I always felt the need to be so responsible at all times, working myself into the ground like I had three children at home to raise, which wasn't the case at all. This jobless time I think was very healing for me emotionally because it let me realize that I can let my hair down, contemplate my navel if I so choose, or sit out in the park on a sunny day and read comic books while trying to avoid upsetting the bees.]

I was hoping the wedding site http://www.sheilaandjoel.com would generate more business, but it has not. I know Joel and Sheila are trying their best, but they have lives and are tryin to buy a new house etc. Ugh the married life. I still hold a lot of resentment towards, married couples and couples in general, I know its in part because I have spent like 99.9% of my existence not with a couple...

[This remains true, not that I am anti-couple, but that I have been single and continue to be. My very few relationships, have been so inconsequential to my overall life that I could nearly say they never happened. I am of two minds about couples, one is I love a beautiful Black couple, but I also am leery of them because usually when your friends have kids that friendship is all but over.]

Which make me wonder about this new guy Chilly Willy, that is the code name for him, me and my ex Tony have code names for everyone, its more out of silliness then anything. There is BJ Cuddles, and Poca Suave, and Demanda Melange, Crystal Dishes, Julie, Lurch, and now Chilly Willy has joined the group, I actually think its an amusing way to talk about boyfriends, best-friends and ex's. It makes the conversations that much more interesting.

[I was thinking at first Chilly Willy was this guy from Detroit named Darren, who is a ginger, and I did have a crush on him. But that never went anywhere and I Mos Def didn't talk with him on the phone. I am sure if I took a look on my laptop I could find photos of this Chilly Willy which was basically his screen-name. I can tell you now that it went no where, I don't think we ever connected in person.

Tony was so brilliant with these nicknames that I think I can recall everyone here:

BJ Cuddles - Mark Payne

Poca Suave - Paul Soave

Demanda Melange - Adam Melaney

Crystal Dishes - Christian

Julie - Julien Gutherie

Lurch - I think Lurch is Eric Acklowitz, cause who else could it be?

Squirt Jocky - Darin Ross

Jeffie Poo - Jeff Casto]

I spent all day in the house yesterday, I am realizing one of my bigger expenditures is entertainment, and as my tap is running low, I have to try to cut expenses even more. And stop going to see like 5 movies a week even if i'm only paying for 2 or 3 of them. I need to find other, low budget thing to do with myself, I would bike more, but i so prefer long distance biking with a partner. And since me and BJ Cuddles are not speaking now, long story, I don't have a partner to go out and chill with, our last big ride was like 50 miles, I felt so buzzed after that trip.

As my personal trainer says Jeffie Poo, my body just craves for the exercises, I wonder how he knows this, is it just my body type, or does he know something that i don't know.

I wish he was more confident of his sexuality i would have dated him in a hot minute, even though he probably couldn't stand me in an intimate relationship. I think he just put on that he likes me, he knows i am a horror.

[The entry before this one and this one I say things that don't make sense to me. In the last entry I said I had a crush on BJ Cuddles, and I was like WTF? I have always been fond of Mark and his bipolar ass, we of course met sexually, then we became friends doing a lot of biking around Brooklyn together since at this time he lived over in Park Slope just a neighborhood over. But me catching feelings for him doesn't feel right, I mean we didn't even fuck, he was just an oral partner.

But Jeff wasn't gay. His very non-toxic masculinity lead our supervisor who hired him to think he was too, I remember her with all confidence telling the rest of the staff this, but then having to walk it back and apologize. But Jeff wasn't gay, he would say he had a gay brother, which he does.

Now had I caught feeling for Jeff working with him? Yes. Jeff has such a gentle energy, and is always so frictionless it made it hard for me not to fall for him. He's also quite fit, not that I ever saw him unclothed, but I could see how his clothes fell on his body and he was lean muscle. He could always just diffuse stressful situations so effortlessly and was always a pleasure to be around. I totally had a crush on Jeff, and frankly probably still do.]

Anyway, back to chilly willy, We spoke on the phone for like 6 hours, and that was our first real conversation, i was dominating most of it but then he filled out at my request, I know i have a tendency to blab, esp since i don't really have a best friend right now, or anyone who i spend exclusively a lot of time with, I just had a lot of things to talk about that i don't usually get the time to talk with anyone about.

That has definitely been one sacrifice of me cutting people off or not dealing with unhealthy relationships. I don't always have people to bounce things off of. I seem to make due, but in this awkward new dating thing, I don't know how to shut up, but its fine, i gotta be me, or he has just got to be gone.

I wasn't really looking for anyone which is the most curious of all of this. But i guess thats when someone shows up. All my friend think he is cute, I am still a bit out on that, it may just be the pictures, I will photograph him personally so he has better pictures to send out. I am so silly but i am so in love with my own pictures. Well the boys must love them they keep using them on their sites. Tony has my photos up, and so does bj cuddles and squirt jocky. So i guess i am doing the right thing somewhere. Oh well maybe i should listen to a few more Seeing-eye theatres from the sci-fi channel and chill for a bit. ttyl

[Photos by Brown Estate]

[cpunkwitch]

Btw glasses are a visual aid for visual impairments. blurriness, farsight and nearsight are just three of the many varieties of visual impairments and low vision.

To be impaired means to have a weakness/disability of some kind inhibiting you in some way to some degree.

Yes you are visually impaired if you need glasses, especially if you can't see without them.

Otherwise who the fuck were glasses made for?

HOWEVER

This does not mean visual impairments are physical disabilities, if you do not have other issues affecting your body (pain, fatigue, joints, anemia, pots etc) you're still physically able.

The argument shouldn't be "glasses wearer's aren't visually impaired" it should be "glasses aren't a mobility aid."

Visual impairments have never been the target of the slur cripple. And yes I have seen people try to state able bodied visually impaired folk are part of cripple punk.

It annoys me as much as able bodied people trying to say their audhd makes them a cripple.

(sorry for going off about two seperate topics in the same post I just felt this was a good place to put it)