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North Carolina teacher has personalized handshakes with each of his students. “It was just one or two students and then it became contagious. I saw how much it meant to them.” http://abcn.ws/2jxFDgt
Love it! lol
This is the type of stuff teachers need to do, form connections with students so they are more comfortable. That comfort makes it easier for them to focus, relax, and ask questions when they don’t understand.
(via The Uncomfortable Tea Set | theuncomfortable.com)
mmm. yes. i AM uncomfortable.
oo long tea
All Star but it’s in a minor key so it makes you question life and realize the years start comin and they don’t stop comin
aka, the theme song to Shrek 9: Shrek’s Third Divorce
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i need a full version of this pls
i’ve listened to this so many times already
When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.
Originally this was just meant to be Torterra… but other Sinnoh Pokemon just kept sneaking their way into the drawing :P
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Holly Maniatty, a certified sign language interpreter upstaged hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg with her enthusiasm during his concert at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Maniatty has worked numerous festivals and concerts with well-known rappers including Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan and Killer Mike and this isn’t the first time that she has stolen the show with her major skills.
This looks like some special type of sign language that assists people with understanding the beats and innuendo along with lyrics.
Snoop Dogg made the right choice!
I thought this was so cool and exciting that I went and learned more about the interpreter here: http://www.thestory.org/transcript-interview-holly-maniatty-interpreter-wu-tang-clan it’s really cool how she spends so much time studying the music so that she can express the performer’s personality and intent. She also tries to make jokes/innuendo work, which is why she’s using a lot of extra expressions, and she is using her body to express important parts of the beat. There’s a bit where she “invites (signed) applause” that works really well with the music. Idk, I don’t know enough about signing to really comment on this, but it strikes me that she’s getting a lot of information into her performance.
One bizarre thing I noticed was how all the outlets reporting on Maniatty’s gone-viral performance was the language they used to describe it. They say she “upstaged” Snoop Dogg, that she “out G'ed him” or “stole the show,” and I think they all profoundly missed the point, even if the word choices were subconscious. Look at the OP for this post, it says she “upstaged” him and regularly “steals” the attention. It’s not like she’s a random dancer or attention seeker: she’s hired by the performers to make their performance accessible! This is her job, and she was specifically chosen and invited by the performer to be there. She isn’t stealing the show, she is charged with making it accessible to a Deaf and HoH audience.
And instead of a literal translation of the lyrics (which often doesn’t really work with hip-hop, because a lot of the cleverness/entertainment is in secondary meanings and rhythm) she’s trying to express the intention. I bet the performers who choose her are super glad they did, since she studies them so carefully, and tries to put their stage personalities across in sign! So many more of their fans are getting their money’s worth! She’s not doing it for parody, she’s doing it to serve the audience. If she was a threat to the performance, if the value she’s adding is distracting or “upstaging,” then PEOPLE WOULD USE A LYRIC MARQUEE INSTEAD. Basically live closed-captioning for events. But they don’t, because the whole-body human interpretation is what actually transmits the meaning, and artists want the audience to appreciate then meaning.
So it’s very weird to see so much language in these articles/posts crowing about how this (brilliant, master-of-her-craft) white woman “stole” the show and “did better at it” than Snoop Dogg. A lot of weird intersectional stuff to think about there.
(I’m totally overthinking this, the video is SUCH good fun though! It makes ONE WHOLE exciting performance!!! and we are so lucky to live in a world where there are people who care about making music accessible!
I showed this to my mom who is herself a sign language interpreter and her reaction was basically “Holy shit, she’s GOOD.”
Interpreting isn’t just telling Deaf people what the words being spoken are in sign language. If you aren’t conveying personality and emotion you’re doing it wrong.
Soooooo much of ASL is facial expression and exaggerated movement to convey what isn’t communicated vocally.
She is amazing and I love her.
Best April’s Fools day prank ever
Imagine how excited he was to show this to his class <3 <3 <3
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Read the rest of the twitter essay on Calgary’s bootleg Pizza delivery companies here
Definitely the highlight of tonight was stumbling on this. Calgary WTF.
yo bro is it safe down there in the woods? yeah man it’s cool by Tomislav Jagnjic
I thought this was just a joke but nope, that’s literally what the artist named this piece.
Some other gems by Tomislac Jagnjic:
The smash hit of the summer.
I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!!
I’m… shook
Well I heard this with my own ears and now you must also.
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This is glorious.
i’m on to you drake
oh my god
what do you do at hogwarts if you start your period?
like do you go and see madam promfrey? or your head of year? because i’m just trying to imagine the slytherin girls going snape and asking for tampons
I do not have the power within me to not reblog this.
Christ almighty
Toronto city councillor, Norm Kelly.
OMG.
Is this real??
It’s real.
IM SCREAMING
damn, norm
michaeljsingh said:
the senate and house both retained republican majority, and the first thing that Trump gets to do is appoint a supreme court judge to reaffirm the conservative majority in the supreme court.
Yeah, but the hope is that they'll keep Trump in check according to regular Republican standards. That wouldn’t be great, but at least it wouldn’t be catastrophic...
America, I hope your checks and balances will properly check and balance.
A Finnish company just reinvented one the earliest arcade games ever. The Augmented Climbing Wall combines projected graphics and body tracking technology to create interactive games and training programs that look straight from the future! These include Augmented Problems, Whack-A-Bat, Sparks, and – the most popular of all – Climball (Pong). The best part is that the system can be customized to any skill level and age. (Source)
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