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‘tactile mind’:A book of nude (3-D) photographs for the blind/vision impaired;criticism from somewhere.

With all the good, there comes the bad. I have gotten so many letters of support for tactile mind and a couple of doozies.

People everywhere have their opinions on this project, and make them known…

This one is from Z.S.(whomever he is….):

wow, so let me first say that i have nothing against what you are doing. in fact i think that it is a terrific idea, but the quality of the pictures is… shitty. i mean, a toilet paper strap-on? wtf??? and whats with the fat broad? and voluptuous? no no no, more like chunky amputees. in no way does anything match the descriptions, so for that you suck. also because you are charging blind people a ridiculous fee for a horrible product. oh and because you seem to have a slight bestiality problem. youre canadian, so that sucks too. otherwise keep up the good work

I didn’t like the comment about ‘chunky amputees’ ; that was in bad taste. Everything else I can take with a grain of salt-

p.s. this person has never ordered anything from me, or interviewed me in any form. I’m assuming he’s never seen or felt the book, and is basing his opinion on viewing my website. www.tactilemindbook.com

Lisa J. Murphy

Tactile Mind Studio Ltd.

A bit about how the media chaos started for TACTILE MIND

For anyone who’s following my blog post on twitter – please see my (Lisa J. Murphy/tactile mind) blog post at www.tactilemindbook.com for full story. For those with a vision impairment link is on right of screen under “pages”. Click on “updates blog”. This story will be top of page (most recent first). Click on title “A bit about how the media chaos started for TACTILE MIND”. to get full story.

Just going back in time from my last post…occasionally over the past 2 years, I had sent out emails about tactile mind: A book of nude photographs for the blind/vision impaired to various local press telling them to check out my site. Unfortunately shooting white plastic can be difficult, and the pictures on my site had been difficult to read. By sheer luck, about a month ago now, I had managed to take some great pictures of the pages of my book (natural daylight) in front of my kitchen window. Out went the emails again. I received a phone call from Sarah Barmak (who I believe was an intern) at the Toronto Star.
We did a phone interview as I made my way up Spadina Ave., through Chinatown on a busy Friday afternoon, on my way to my restaurant job. Due to over staffing at the restaurant, I received the night off, and went home and emailed Sarah a picture of Diagram 2/ Man in Arctic Mask to illustrate her article.

This article came out 2 days later in the Sunday Toronto Star. I picked up a couple copies of the paper on the way to the gym, and spent the day doing garden work, and chatting with my neighbour.

The next morning I had a early doctors’ appointment and when I got off the subway at the Dufferin station, The Daily Telegraph (London, U.K) called for an interview. The gentleman was very nice and informed me that pictures of my work had made it into all media throughout Britain. OK. I then got on the Dufferin bus and CBS called for a live interview. Nothing like being on public transit and having CBS call. I had to get them to call me back, and hoofed it home.

General feedback about ‘tactile mind’.

Some people like it, some people dislike it – most people haven’t looked at my website or seen/felt the 3-D book. It’s amazing the impact media has on people’s opinions.

People are calling it “original”, “artistic”, “erotic”, “sensual”, “fetish-orientated”, & “pornographic”. People everywhere are entitled to their opinions, and have made them…..

Different media outlets or blog posts are calling it expensive. These people have not visited my website, or emailed me to ask me questions. As a 1 person publishing house, producing my own work, I do sell individual pages of ‘tactile mind’, because I know not everyone can afford the complete book. I have worked multiple waitressing and minimum wage jobs in the past couple of years to pay for this work. It is incredibly expensive and time consuming to create. ‘tactile mind’ is self-published and handmade. It has been “out” since 2008, and I have been dragging it around in plastic containers to erotic art fairs and galleries.

‘tactile mind’ is a cool book of my nude photographs for the vision impaired and blind to read, period.