Category: Watching

03 Aug

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot

That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering … on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
08 Jul

Cocker captioned for the clear-headed!

Joe Cocker at Woodstock: captioned for the clear-headed! With requisite shot of Li-Li blogging at the Apple Store …
06 Jun

We’ve come a long way, baby

Update: on The Daily Show, Kristen Schaal says that the media treats Hillary Clinton like a Hooter’s waitress, so she strips to the Indigo Girls to end the sexism. Take that!
18 May

Say Goodbye to Hollywood — 3 seconds of fame

… holding unlit cigarettes and half-filled glasses of colored water in the dank fog-machine-driven cloud of smoke in a dingy bar in Huntington while Billy Joel and his band repeatedly played “Say Goodbye to Hollywood”
11 Apr

Faces of ASL-CI Users

I don’t yet know who made this amazing video found at the ASL-Cochlear Implant Community site, but I adore it!!
28 Mar

Better than the Wiggles

First, a gratuitous shot of Li-Li and Tess. Then a “Beautiful” video and finally, a very cool interpretation of a song I normally wouldn’t be all that into follows.
24 Jan

If a television commercial airs on Super Bowl Sunday and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

Holy cow! From CNNMoney, looks like the Performance with a Purpose campaign is putting its money where its hands are: On Sunday, February 3, television viewers will be checking their volume controls when PepsiCo airs a 60-second commercial filmed in American Sign Language (ASL), with open-captioned text for the benefit of all viewers. The spot [...]
02 Jan

From D-PAN: Waiting on the World to Change

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28 Dec

I want to hold your hand

What a great way to introduce the wee one to great music using ASL, her primary language! We can’t tell yet if she’s hearing the music, but although he likely thinks of Li-Li as a spooky little Frankenstein since she has the dreaded CI, we still think Mike’s signing rocks it. WPvideo 1.10
09 Dec

Sesame Street music video extravaganza

We watched some great vintage Sesame Street videos this evening with the little one! Billy Joel and Marlee Matlin with Don’t Go Changing: WPvideo 1.10   And my all-time favorite — Mahna Mahna: WPvideo 1.10 and REM’s Furry Happy Monsters:  WPvideo 1.10