[lbo-talk] The vanden Heuvel Church of the Obvious

[John Costello]

On 1/13/07, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I regardless of the content of this video, does anyone else get the
> feeling of complete and total revulsion when they see one of these
> video blogs?  Something about the whole format-- completely still
> camera, boring background, a lone individual with no sense of what to
> do with their body or face; the badly lighted frame and grainy
> resolution.

You should watch some of the Deaf video blogs.  Totally different
experience -- some of them (like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwhiA7-qsj0) are practically
professionally produced standup sketches, while others
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=c497XYX9BLo) should be accessible even to
people who know no ASL at all.

YouTube & video blogging make a huge difference to the Deaf community.

 In some cases, especially for Deaf people who aren't so comfortable
with standard written English, it makes blogging accessible for the
first time.

(Theresa Nielsen-Hayden pointed some of these links out on Making
Light a while back.)

-- 
John S Costello
joxn.costello at gmail.com
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims
of the darkness."
-- Justice William O. Douglas