Joel Solkoff
My blogs
- Diary of a man who can NOT walk
- A Vision of Life by John Harris from Solkoff Books
- Disabilities
- Disability Beat: Virtual Reality
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Disability_elderly advocate using 3-D and other ttechnology |
| Location | State College, PA, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Disability advocate. Writer. Research assistant Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering I am a man of many blogs. During my days as a columnist on disability and elderly issues for Voices of Central PA, I used my Voices blog to provide extra information not contained in my hard copy column entitled From Where I Sit. The old baseball cry: You can’t tell the players without a program, applies here. I think of the blog you are reading http://disabilitybeatcoversvirtualreality.blogspot.com/ as my primary blog. This blog focuses on the work I am doing on the subject of virtual reality. I work at the ICon Lab at Penn State. ICon is an acronym for Immersed Construction Lab. Inside the lab is a large, specially designed wooden container holding a large number of 3-D glasse which are used much of the time. The glasses remind me of the 1950s, when there was a 3-D craze. I was born in 1947--old enough to remember what the craze of the 1950s was like. |
| Interests | I am interested in talent and how it can be used productively for our society and for those of us who are disabled and elderly. |
| Favorite Movies | There is a Betty Davis movie where Betty Davis is in a wheelchair. When no one is looking she gets up from the wheelchair, walks across the room, lights up a cigarette, and makes sure that no one finds out she is faking. I wish I were faking. I wish I could walk. I wish I knew the name of the movie. |
| Favorite Music | Mozart's piano sonatas, his pieces for the clarinet and French horn played by small groups and everything Taylor Swift sings. |
| Favorite Books | Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen |
When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
No. I worry that the air will run out before I see everything I want to see.