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capri0mniOn Tuesday, I posted this:
From the end of the second verse [eta: of Mystery Song]:
Reporting live from the frontline
We carry the torch for the ones who're scared to shine
The last verse:
One thing I know is for definite
Soul, body and mind, you got the same benefit
If you trust your heart, there ain't no way of losing it
Keep doing your thing, against all etiquette.
10, 9, 8, start the countdown
7, 6, 5, about to go down
4, 3, 2, 1, sing along now.
ETA #2: At first, I thought I'd just leave it there, and not burden you guys with me gushing on about a language I love but don't live in.
But thanks totrouble, I learned about a video (reported on by Huffington Post) by a couple of ignoramuses claiming to be covering a song in ASL -- but really, all they're doing is flailing their hands about in a stereotypical, audist, hateful way. And then, they're removing and blocking all comments by actual Deaf, Native ASL Signers who are calling them out on it. So I thought I'd put dedicate some of my space to real True-biz Sign Rapping, to thumb my nose at those fools.
This is another song from Signmark (Marko Vuoriheimo). I'm not completely certain that this is 100% ASL; it may be a mix of American Sign Language and Pidgin Signed English. But the comments below, from Deaf Signers, are all giving Kudos, so I'll trust their judgement. As I understand it, he performed this song for EuroVision 2009, and while he didn't win (he came in 2nd), the exposure did get the attention of Warner Music International, and he put out an English/ASL CD and DVD combo album in 2010, and he's been circling the globe giving live concerts ever since (He's currently touring the American East Coast as I type this; his Web site also has videos posted from Hong Kong and Ethiopia, among other places).
Here's a full video of the song that was made in 2009; it's not entirely to my liking -- strikes me as though it were made in imitation of Hearing rap videos; the editing of the video cuts interrupt the flow of many signs in mid-line, but it's worth seeing the whole thing, anyway (imNSho):
As my mother would have phrased it: "If I could write like that (in a third language, no less), I wouldn't talk to anybody!"
From the end of the second verse [eta: of Mystery Song]:
Reporting live from the frontline
We carry the torch for the ones who're scared to shine
The last verse:
One thing I know is for definite
Soul, body and mind, you got the same benefit
If you trust your heart, there ain't no way of losing it
Keep doing your thing, against all etiquette.
10, 9, 8, start the countdown
7, 6, 5, about to go down
4, 3, 2, 1, sing along now.
ETA #2: At first, I thought I'd just leave it there, and not burden you guys with me gushing on about a language I love but don't live in.
But thanks to
trouble, I learned about a video (reported on by Huffington Post) by a couple of ignoramuses claiming to be covering a song in ASL -- but really, all they're doing is flailing their hands about in a stereotypical, audist, hateful way. And then, they're removing and blocking all comments by actual Deaf, Native ASL Signers who are calling them out on it. So I thought I'd put dedicate some of my space to real True-biz Sign Rapping, to thumb my nose at those fools.This is another song from Signmark (Marko Vuoriheimo). I'm not completely certain that this is 100% ASL; it may be a mix of American Sign Language and Pidgin Signed English. But the comments below, from Deaf Signers, are all giving Kudos, so I'll trust their judgement. As I understand it, he performed this song for EuroVision 2009, and while he didn't win (he came in 2nd), the exposure did get the attention of Warner Music International, and he put out an English/ASL CD and DVD combo album in 2010, and he's been circling the globe giving live concerts ever since (He's currently touring the American East Coast as I type this; his Web site also has videos posted from Hong Kong and Ethiopia, among other places).
Here's a full video of the song that was made in 2009; it's not entirely to my liking -- strikes me as though it were made in imitation of Hearing rap videos; the editing of the video cuts interrupt the flow of many signs in mid-line, but it's worth seeing the whole thing, anyway (imNSho):
As my mother would have phrased it: "If I could write like that (in a third language, no less), I wouldn't talk to anybody!"
