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Vine demonstrates the importance of sound

One of the most remarkable features about Vine is not the visual content, it’s the sound that gets laced in.

People overlook sound. But sound is the reason scary movies are scary. Sound creates tension and sets the mood.

I found myself unlocking the mute button on every Vine video I viewed this weekend. Audio is the one mystery we all want to know; it makes the images more real.

Music is not the only sound. Sound is ubiquitous and part of everything. Even the slightest silence is sound.

Sound completes the story. Without it, all we get are moving parts.

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Braille

There’s only one language for the blind.  It’s called Braille.  

Before today, I knew nothing about the history of Braille:      

Braille has its roots in the French army. In the early eighteenth century, a soldier named Charles Barbier de la Serre invented a code for military messages that could be read in the trenches at night without light; it used patterns of twelve raised dots to represent phonemes. The system was too complicated for the beleaguered soldiers to master, but when Barbier met Louis Braille, who had been blind since boyhood, the latter simplified the system into the six-dot version used ever since. Braille is not a language per se but rather a code by which other languages, from English to Japanese to Arabic…

Blind readers and writers can also see.  They activate the unused visual cortex and see their way through touch and sound.  They can even use their tongue to sense images.  

Technology makes our brains even more plastic, rewiring them until the day we die.  

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