I found some interesting videos on YouTube made by Antoine Hunter, a deaf/hard of hearing dancer and founder of a dance company. Please check them out here.
I especially like his Antoine Hunter Is Deaf And Hard of hearing ! Expressvideo. It is a poetic and creative video about being deaf/hard of hearing.
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*Antoine Hunter's website: http://www.antoinehunter.com/Welcome.html
Such a wonderful man. I would love to see him live and even marry him. I love his old and new video!
ReplyDelete:( (e.... you now have a regular follower that's deaf but I don't know ASL... Captions are needed! :(
ReplyDeleteAaw, man, sorry about that. I hear ya Laketa. I wish everything I put on here is captioned. I usually provide transcripts to non-captioned videos. But, I was not quite sure how to transcribe this video though.
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Here's the transcript of what he says:
ReplyDeleteHey! What's up? You just saw the other video where I was talking about me on the phone... *pretending to be on the phone*
"Hey, how you doin? I'm doing fine."
Y'all know I can't hear on the phone! *laughs* But seriously, you know I have a hard time hearing on the phone, I can hear a little bit but it's really really hard. People always tell me when I dance I am suppose to feel the vibrations, I'm here to tell you right now that when I was a little boy I used to watch people have conversations, talking, talking, talking and I couldn't understand a word that people would say. Blah, blah, blah, talk, talk, talk...and so I would mind my own business. People would try to call my name,
Hand: "Antoine!! Antoine!! Antoine!!"...
Antoine: "Oh, hey!"
*hand talking*
Antoine: "I'm fine how are you?"
*hand talking*
Antoine:"Uh huh,"
*hand talking*
Antoine: "Right, Ok. Wait, wait, wait slow down."
*hand talking*
Antoine: "Uhhh, I'm okay."
*hand talking*
Antoine: "That's not what you said?"
*hand talking*
Antoine: "Okay don't get mad at me!! I'm trying to understand what you said."
*hand talking*
Antoine: "Okay, oh okay okay I got it. I understand what you said. Yeah, I'm sure. I got it."
I didn't understand what they said.
The letters "M" and "B" look very the same. I am suppose to read lips? The letters "V" and "F" looks very the same.
If I jump... how do I feel the vibrations?? Hello!! I must work to understand what's going on. I must fill in the blanks to understand what's going on. I must dance my heart out to understand how I feel with the music or whatever. I must do all those things. It's not perfect, it's hard! It's not easy. It's just the way it is... Am I on beat? ;)