An entertainment vlog by Carl Schroeder: The English language has its Jabberwocky written by Lewis Carroll. It's a nonsense yet playful poem. Can we do that in ASL? Yes! Don't even try to caption this!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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Love it!
Smiling in my ASL heart and thinking of our Deaf Elders, Eric Malzkuhn and Joe Velez, who at NTD pioneered in this kind of ASL play.
Carl, yours are more freer translated and probably closer to what Lewis Carroll was trying to impart - nonsensicial play. Eric and Joe probably was more linear-ly stuck.
Instead of trying to defend against trying to subtitle ASL, we should do more of what you did to demonstrate why it is OK not to subtitle.
Handwave.
Let's caption this video!
LOL
Sorry, can't resist this.
FAR OUT!!!
You're really good!
It reminds me of my Deaf brother. We always made our hands in any kind of stories at the table. Our stories are "Fart to the moon,” "dog following the cat,” others you could name it. My parents and my hearing brother tried so hard to understand us. We are like T.V. to them. They were eating and watching us signing. We didn’t finish our meal and then my dad tried telling us to eat our meal. He signed to us, “stop playing with your hands and eat now!"
My dad and hearing brother learned sooo much from us with the hand gestures creating a story like in a movie and they did it by us but not a sign language book.
Beautiful festival ASL! No Caption at all period. No one can interpret that into subtitle.
Eloquently translated in our own language, American Sign Language (ASL).
Your Jabblewacky version is more stylish and satisfying than other "ASL" versions.
Judge,
Y really could look up the English version of "Jabblewacky" than having Carl to subtitle his Jabblewacky version.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Ha. I've seen Joe Velez in action with this a long long time ago. You probably met his son, Mike at S.F. ASL festival last year. Is it on video somewhere?
Carl,
I remember that very well when I was very young... Yes I almost forgot all about that. It is more of music in eyes just let mind relax and acquire it with flow! I love that.
Deafchip
Carl,
An excellent ASL poem! Genuinely imaginative than what Lewis Carroll wrote in "Jabberwocky!" A Carpe Diem of our true psyche of imagination expressed more than what a word can describe!
Reminds me of "Fantasia 2000" from Walt Disney, your poetry seem to impose "musical" sense in perfect harmony.
Keep up the excellent expansion of ASL discoveries!
Beautiful!!!
Richard Rohem, could you caption this one? I do not think so!
I would suggest that you find a video that musician use for background tripping out audience. then play that video on background and sign at the same time. would that be cool?
Merle
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