AG BELL -vs- Connexin 26 (ASL Tut)

Prototype prose-poetry? I visualized a basic story-line concept and then tried to freestyle-narrate using linguistic features found in ASL, fused with finger-tutting sequences. For sometime now I’ve been fascinated with the possibilities of giving finger-tutting sequences ‘explicit meaning’ through the use of ASL handshapes, movements, palm-orientation, NMS, and location. Dance is a great medium of expression, although it’s not an actual language, as a result the meaning it often wishes to convey is in nature, more implicit and abstract (not at all necessarily a negative aspect). This concept is still very much inside the creative-womb, I’m just toying with ideas and having fun. I edited the footage of my visual-vomit in an attempt to get rid of some of the thought-hesitation and to enhance the effects of other components. Cochlear Implants: My issue isn’t with individuals who are over 18 years of age, it’s his/her decision. However, I strongly believe implanting babies + children to be unethical. Unfortunately the mainstream population is exposed to grossly different data streams than those of us in the Deaf community. Flow of information affects behavior – I think most people share similar ‘values’ when it comes to the well being of their children, nevertheless because of such wildly different data – there is a failure to connect cognitive maps to the vital behaviors that enforce their true value system and ultimately the determined outcome. Sorry the video-quality is ….