We went to a local musical performance the other evening, which was very nice except for some interpretive sign language dancing that went on. I don't think we as an audience should have to watch that stuff. But, nevertheless, I looked it up when I got home and found some instructions on how to do it (in the privacy of your own home, please) :
- Pick your favorite song
- Write down what you'd like the song to communicate to others.
- Find the sign language movements for the action words of your song
- Make these sign language movements larger and more dramatic then the average sign language conversation(!)
- Always try to make the action words as literal as possible so that you
r audience can understand the meaning of your dance.
- Add turns, jumps and kicks in the appropriate places
- Facial expressions are vital in interpretive choreography, and must be in line with the emotions of the song.
After seeing the above picture of interpretive sign language dance, it occurred to me how much of the choreography for Britney Spears' music videos must have been created with the help of interpretive signing. Take the music video for the song "Circus" for example. I think if you look at the pictures below and their meaning, you'll agree with me that there is a lot more depth to Britney than we give her credit for:
In this shot, Britney is using the sign for children, and since she has both hands up by her chin, there are 2 children that she is thinking of, and wishing she were spending time with rather than making this music video.
Here, Britney is using her hat to hide behind. She is dying to self, and trying to focus on others. What is ironic is that she is singing about being in a spotlight in a "circus" while she is actually hiding from the "spotlight". This tells me she doesn't want her life to be about herself, but about others, specifically the children in Africa who are dying from malaria, or starving.
Britney is signing the exaggerated motion for food with electric "manna" falling from heaven. I think what she is trying to say here is how thankful she is to live in a free country and have food on her table and clothes in her closet. She also knows that it could be gone tomorrow.
You see that Britney is essentially putting herself in bondage with her arms wrapping around herself, and her little whip. She is making a statement, I believe, about domestic violence.
Britney uses this sign to portray wiping her nose, or sickness. You can see in her eyes that she is crying without tears. Very powerful. Its quite obvious that she is concerned about Manchausen's syndrome by proxy, where a mother exaggerates or creates symptoms or illnesses in themselves or their child/children in order to gain investigation, treatment, attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel. How profound for her to think about, and speak out about this!
Here Britney is motioning us to come to her. I think what she is trying to tell us with this sign is that children and adults who are illiterate should not be ashamed of not being able to read but to COME FORWARD and get the help they need to learn. WOW. I had not even considered this before seeing this music video.
I'm half crying, half mad, half in shock. I can hardly type. 
I had the unfortunate experience several months ago to need new tires for our minivan. Unfortunately, it wasn't only the cost that was unfortunate. It was the man with his wallet chain worn from back pocket, between his legs, and clipped on his front belt loop. Something I'd rather not have to look at for 45 minutes in a waiting room. He didn't sit down while he was waiting - I imagine that wouldn't work so hot with his wallet being on a rather tight leash.
I had 
my husband lengthen the chain for me just a little bit but not enough that I could sit down without quite a bit of discomfort. In fact, here's a chart to look at. When you're sitting down, you want to be somewhere between pink and red, but either apple green or lime green when standing up or lying flat, so you can stand and sleep in relative comfort.
To the stand up comedian in the grocery store check-out aisle:
We have a birthday coming up at our house for an 8 year old boy, so I was doing some toy shopping at Amazon.com. I found some really great gift ideas - I linked the pictures to Amazon so you can go there quickly. The hardest part is not buying ALL of them! My very favorite was this N. California Narcotics Unit Lego Set, but here are 9 others worth mentioning:
The Ricky Bobby Malt Liquor Semi-Trailer Car Transport
and finally, Pulp Fiction Action Figures from the Drug Overdose Scene
We thought they were enemies - but I think when you listen to this, you may find they've been putting on a little show for all of us to disguise what was really going on...
'm only of average intelligence, but I can't figure out why someone did some yoga and renamed it Pilates. When I say 'someone', I am talking about YOU Mr. Joseph Pilates. Yoga has been around for 5000 years, while Joseph came up with his 'new' exercise theology in 1928.
We went to a local musical performance the other evening, which was very nice except for some interpretive sign language dancing that went on. I don't think we as an audience should have to watch that stuff. But, nevertheless, I looked it up when I got home and found some instructions on how to do it (in the privacy of your own home, please) :
In this shot, Britney is using the sign for children, and since she has both hands up by her chin, there are 2 children that she is thinking of, and wishing she were spending time with rather than making this music video.
Here, Britney is using her hat to hide behind. She is dying to self, and trying to focus on others. What is ironic is that she is singing about being in a spotlight in a "circus" while she is actually hiding from the "spotlight". This tells me she doesn't want her life to be about herself, but about others, specifically the children in Africa who are dying from malaria, or starving.
Britney is signing the exaggerated motion for food with electric "manna" falling from heaven. I think what she is trying to say here is how thankful she is to live in a free country and have food on her table and clothes in her closet. She also knows that it could be gone tomorrow.
You see that Britney is essentially putting herself in bondage with her arms wrapping around herself, and her little whip. She is making a statement, I believe, about domestic violence.
Britney uses this sign to portray wiping her nose, or sickness. You can see in her eyes that she is crying without tears. Very powerful. Its quite obvious that she is concerned about Manchausen's syndrome by proxy, where a mother exaggerates or creates symptoms or illnesses in themselves or their child/children in order to gain investigation, treatment, attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel. How profound for her to think about, and speak out about this!
Here Britney is motioning us to come to her. I think what she is trying to tell us with this sign is that children and adults who are illiterate should not be ashamed of not being able to read but to COME FORWARD and get the help they need to learn. WOW. I had not even considered this before seeing this music video.
Its never been done before, but here it all makes sense:
I've been checking out my site meter recently and notice there are a lot of hits from Egypt. Puzzled, I looked into it further to see what search words they were Googling that would lead them to my little piece of nothing blog. Egyptian Porn. Egyptian. Porn. It was a joke, because really, head scarves? Sexy? Who knew?
Colin, Colin, Colin. I have been a huge fan since first seeing you in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice masterpiece (5 whole entire hours of wonderfulness). Bridget Jones Diary 1 & 2 was very nice too. But I've read something today that may have brought you down a notch in my fan club.
disease. I find it vexing really that it is all very well to have the stuntman exposed to this organism, which is found in rat urine, and causes extreme illness, and even death in 10% of human cases, but not yourself.
