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The characters just weren't that interesting
What a great film!
There were giant holes in this plot
WHO'S NEVER ACTUALLY 'SEEN' A MOVIE
what are you blind?
23 MILLION VIEWS ON TWO YOUTUBE CHANNELS
The biggest surprise for me is
how interested people are in the whole blind experience
32 THOUSAND INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS
Well, Instagram is an obvious platform for a blind person
Thats exactly where you'd expect to find one (laughs)
Can you see me alright, do I look alright?
back a bit
how's that?
Perfect!
Boy, you sighted people! (laughs)
God damn vision, it's so complicated
audio would work just great but NO you've got to see everything (laughs)
We thought it might be fun to review movies
from a blind persons perspective
Now let's try it without the picture
Not so much fun right
You're a little confused now aren't you
Two hours of that! Two hours of that!
I don't think I'm distracted by things like beautiful people
or beautiful cinematography or beautiful shots or any of that kind of thing
I'm just in it for the movie, for the story and for the acting
and the characters so I think that's where my review is a bit different.
So we've launched a brand new YouTube channel
I got to go to the bank and grab some money
One of the things that was happening in the movie reviews was
folks were asking a lot of questions about me
about being blind so rather than answer with text
or email we thought it might be fun to answer the questions with videos
It takes a little bit longer than for sighted people
it says to plug them in but it doesn't say where
Four Zero Zero Zero
$40,000.00 You have exceeded your limit!
I just do videos answering questions, everyday stuff
like how do you get around?
If I put my left foot down the stick is on the right
How do you cross the street?
How do you cook?
Can you draw stuff?
Want to see me open my eyes?
I like to laugh and have fun
and if I can teach you something
and make you laugh at the same time that's great.
Next time I'm going to show you how I perform surgery!
Today I'm going to show you how Instagram works
You may be saying, a blind guy using Instagram!?
Watch!
With Instagram if I want to take a picture of something
I just point the camera in the direction of where I think it's going to be
maybe where the sound is coming from or if its a nice day
I try a picture of the sky just to see what I can get.
Then you guys tell me in the comments what it is
and if its any good or if it's a crummy picture
The first selfie I tried to take I pointed at my face
and took a beautiful picture of the inside of one of my nostrils
It got about seven likes (laughs)
Listen every journey begins with seven likes!
I was born blind and I don' t think I really discovered that I was blind
because it was all I ever knew
It was my normal, I learnt how to ride a bike
and I hung around with sighted kids and went to a public school
There are plenty of good things about being blind.
I go on airplanes first
Every women I've ever been with is a 10!
I've heard from a lot of people who have blind people in their life
and they say things like you're such a help
I was so worried about my child growing up being blind
and pardon the pun but your videos have really opened my eyes
and that just makes me melt, I love that.