Last week as part of our Sightless Movie Experiment, we "watched" Risky Business without the picture, only listening to the soundtrack. While we were holed up during the blizzard we re-watched the movie, this time the standard way with both picture and sound. There were some surprising differences between the movie we saw in our imagination the first time around and the one which unfolded in front of us the second time. more ›

Would watching a movie without the picture be as engaging as watching it the standard way? Could watching a movie "blind," so to speak, possibly be even more rewarding? For our experiment we chose Risky Business, a movie totally new to us. We popped it in our DVD player and turned off the picture on our TV. So what was it like? more ›

When we were a kid, our uncle had a blind friend for whom he would occasionally run errands. One frequent errand was stopping off at the video store to rent movies, because even though he was blind he still loved watching them. One of his favorites was All the President's Men. Which, if you stop to think about it, is a highly visual movie. We're all grown up now, but we've never stopped asking ourselves: would watching a movie without the picture be as engaging as watching it the standard way? Could it possibly be even more rewarding? more ›

The Tribune ran a list of "Ten Things You Might Not Know About Chicago Transit." more ›