(Video) Q&A: Why There Is No Sign-Up Link
Here's what I'm thinking. I'm working on making some glasses related short stories for you. "A Brief History of Glasses", right now looking at me accusingly from it's folder on my desktop. It's saying, why Jake. Why aren't you right now editing my bits. Why aren't you shooting more footage. Why, Jake! Instead of letting the lacking skills and slow progress drive me crazy, I'll be working on that, and also considering much simpler short Q&A chats. Little chats, you and me, on the various e-mail and [...]
Meet Me In Fancytown: Roseman Boutique Frame Maker
If you know me, you know how much I'm fond of people making things. Not giant corporations somewhere, and their fashion label empires. Whenever possible, I'd rather put my money in the pocket of the person actually involved in a creative process. In particular when it comes to glasses, real designers are hard to find. Recently I went on a little designer discovery mission. For a couple of new projects I had a perfect excuse to go try to find something new and interesting. And [...]
This Might Take A Minute
The Task: A two minute explainer about the history of glasses.The Goal: Dispel the (quite false) public opinion that glasses were invented by doctors and scientists, to treat myopia. The Progress: Slowly McSlowlypants.At least you now know that you'll be treated only to the most high tech in 3D animation and magnificent special effects. The pinnacle of modern timey cinematography.(and things are actually along further than those screenshots may suggest ...)But that's why there isn't more articles goodness here for you today. Even just figuring out the overhead rig [...]
Get Rid Of The Home Office: It’s Crap For Your Eyes
Semi off-topic Sunday. I'm not great at predictable weekly style articles. Today let's look at why I tell all my clients to scrap their home offices. Whenever I used to go see someone and they have a home office, I'd tell them that I won't talk to them about eyesight until that office is absolutely gone. I've dragged office desks hidden in the garage out onto driveways, and smashed them. (just once, that) Partially because I'm probably a bit strange, a bit because it's sometimes necessary to shock people, [...]
The 1960’s Harvard Pirate Kitten Experiment: A Closed Eye Goes Blind
All right so that title is a little clickbait-ey. But let's look at this not-Schroedinger's cat experiment. It's meant to figure out how our brains might develop, relative to our eyesight. It's brilliant and fascinating, and goes counter to whatever current profit-minded eyesight medicine will tell you. Ready for a fascinating pirate cat story?Back in the 1960's this guy Torsten Wiesel from the Harvard Medical School's department of neurobiology ran an experiment on kittens.He wanted to more clearly understand the early development of the visual cortex.To [...]
PRK & LASIK: Serious Side Effects?
Here's how you educate yourself about the potential risks of laser surgery, and learn about a potentially decent choice of doctors to do the procedure for you: 1. Ask your PRK / LASIK doctor just one single question: Dear doctor, how did my eyes become myopic in the first place? 2. Listen carefully to the answer. 3. Visit this page for known science: How Myopia Actually Happens Take a few minutes to get the short version of the story. Then at the bottom of the page, look [...]