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As shows-to-watch-when-unwell go, The Mentalist is a pretty solid distraction. Anyone got other recommendations? #tv #movies trakt.tv/shows/the-mentalist

The Mentalist

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Colin Farrell as The Penguin. Holy shit. The transformation is so epic that I literally did not believe the search result when I looked up the actor. I thought “that must be AI garbage”. Nope.

The show ain’t bad either. #ThePenguin #TV

On the left, a press photo of actor Colin Farrell. On the right, a still showing the character The Penguin from the show of the same name.
#TV #thepenguin

Audio description — the narration track that describes visual elements of videos for blind and low-vision folks — is leveling up, and "The Penguin" is a perfect example of how. Most of the team members narrating the audio descriptions for the "Batman" spinoff are blind, and were consulted on how to make the descriptions richer and more meaningful, such as adding details about characters' micro-expressions and visual elements with symbolic meaning. Their vocal performances add further layers. Here's more on the process from @Variety.

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#TV #Television #Entertainment #ThePenguin #Accessibility #Blindness #LowVision #AudioDescription


How 'The Penguin' Audio Descriptions Were Made by All-Blind Team

The audio descriptions for 'The Penguin' were created by a nearly all-blind team.
Andrés Buenahora (Variety)
#Entertainment #TV #accessibility #television #thepenguin #blindness #lowvision #audiodescription @Variety

When Mats Steen died at the age of 25 from a degenerative muscular disease, his parents were surprised to hear from people from all over Europe who were mourning his loss. Robert and Trudy Steen knew that their son was an avid gamer, but they didn’t know that for nearly a decade Mats had had another virtual life in the game World of Warcraft. The story of Mats, and his avatar, is now being told in a documentary, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. The BBC has more: flip.it/KLP6Ip
#Culture #Gaming #VideoGames #TV #Documentaries #WorldOfWarcraft #TheRemarkableLifeOfIbelin

'He was an incurable romantic': The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft

A new documentary, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, explores the friendships a disabled boy forged in an online game – without his family knowing.
Emma Jones (BBC)
#videogames #gaming #TV #culture #Documentaries #worldofwarcraft #theremarkablelifeofibelin

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