Stephen Torrence has done a great service by recording and sharing a number of his translations of songs that catch his attention into American Sign Language (ASL).
HowStuffWorks.com interviewed Stephen to get some insight into the process he goes through in writing his translations and the details may surprise you. The effort he puts into each of his translations shows, and it’s no wonder! Each one of his recordings are the result of take after take, he’s not simply taking the words of the songs and dryly regurgitating them—he’s carefully performing each phrase and verse, employing full use of his face and manner to great effect.
So, if you have even a passing interest in ASL and seeing some impressive performances, I recommend you take a look at Stephen’s collection on his YouTube page.
And with that, I leave you with the song that got me here: Stephen’s excellent performance of Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive,” Enjoy.
A nice feature of this service is that the stats should update periodically with armory updates.
Windows Live Writer – A better way to publish?
It’s no secret that the Host of this blog and the guest writers post rather-infrequently. My pet theory is that the Wordpress editor is so piss-poor for handling images and other tasks that it’s not worth the trouble. I’ve known that Windows Live writer has been available for some time, but I’ve just now gotten around to installing it. I already did a few test posts to “my” blog: http://brnvndr.blogspot.com/, and it worked seamlessly. In no particular order, here are the qualities I’m looking for publishing:
So far, Live Writer has done an exemplary job of handling these tasks… I’m impressed