Andrew is a writer, audio producer, editor and teacher, who, in this episode, reflects on his love for writing and his lifelong journey with audio. This ranges from his experimentation with tape recorders as a child, through to his experience in college radio and his role as host and producer of the arts-and-culture podcast The Organist, working with KCRW in Los Angeles. Andrew then shares the story of how he came to write his first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, and how that has led him to be featured as a guest in various podcasts.
Podcast case study: Parallel (guest)
Find Andrew at andrewleland.org.
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Links and Show Notes
Left the Lens Cap On 00:00:00
Conversation and Narrative 00:05:48
Writing 00:14:34
- The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023) by Andrew Leland
- The New Yorker
- DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland
Accessibility Sprinkles 00:20:59
- Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)
- Screen reader
- Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
- Parallel
- Shelly Brisbin
- Find Andrew's guest appearance in #86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind.
- Louis Braille
- Hacker
- Braille
- Extended reality (XR) (including more precise references to augmented, mixed and virtual reality)
It Feels Like a Gift 00:29:33
Credits
Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact
- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld