+deafnut Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 I am deahunt and in alaska,anchorage for 3 year and two week of geocaching Quote Link to comment
+Moore9KSUcats Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Skullking, Deafhunt is trying to find other deaf geocachers. He is telling you he is in Alaska (Anchorage) and has been there for 3 years. He has been geocaching for 2 weeks. He is extremely enthusiastic about geocaching, and wants to get more of the deaf community involved in geocaching. He has created a short video explaining geocaching in ASL. You may notice a difficulty with the english language. That is normal, since his first language is American Sign Language. The syntax and structure of ASL is completely different than our standard English. Also, I believe he is 20 years old. He has been welcomed into the geocaching community by a number of forum regulars. Welcome again, DeafHunt! Malia Quote Link to comment
Skull King Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 A thousand pardons. Being royalty, I am totally sense-less. The video might possibly rock. Do you YouTube? Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Here's deafhunt's video: Quote Link to comment
+lacey38655 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Welcome deafhunt, !! Quote Link to comment
Captain Clorox Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Skull King's inappropriate posts were no match for the awesome powers of Captain Clorox. That skull's looking pretty bleached. Carry on... and on topic. Quote Link to comment
+Airhead-kb Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 I don't speak ASL, but it looks like he was having a good time explaining GC'ing. Quote Link to comment
+basenola Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 We recently met a couple team from around Austin, TX, using the name deafdillos. basenola Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Deafhunt - I don't sign but I work with a couple of folks who do. They offered constructive criticism of your video that you need to slow down when signing. It's obvious that you are quite fluent in ASL but the video capture you are using isn't able to keep up with your signing. If you slow it down - like you are speaking slowly - it will probably be more readily readable by the ASL community. Excellent idea to make an ASL video explaining geocaching. I hope you make another video with slower signing. Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Deafhunt - I don't sign but I work with a couple of folks who do. They offered constructive criticism of your video that you need to slow down when signing. It's obvious that you are quite fluent in ASL but the video capture you are using isn't able to keep up with your signing. If you slow it down - like you are speaking slowly - it will probably be more readily readable by the ASL community. Excellent idea to make an ASL video explaining geocaching. I hope you make another video with slower signing. I agree with slowing down. Especially with the fingerspelling. It blurs a lot. Deafhunt, I noticed at the very end that you slowed down a bit with the fingerspelling, and I had a better time understanding all of a sudden. Better lighting is important, too. The light is behind you, which shadows your body. It would be better to have the light more in front of you. Hopefully someday things like YouTube will be able to show videos without all that blurring. It can make it hard for signing to show up clearly. Thank you for making the video, it's a great idea, and I've enjoyed watching it. If you make another one, please let us know, I'd love to see it! Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Skull King's inappropriate posts were no match for the awesome powers of Captain Clorox. That skull's looking pretty bleached. Carry on... and on topic. Well, being as he says he's a sock puppet in his profile.... Gotta love that avatar though. I'd better say something on-topic; Good job on the video, deaf hunt, and a good idea. Quote Link to comment
+PlantAKiss Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Great video Deafhunt! I know a little ASL, I studied it for a couple of years. I need to study that for practice! But I agree with others that it would help a lot if you slowed your signing down some. The blurring makes it hard to see your hand shapes. Maybe if you make another video, you could show the GPSr unit more and maybe show a cache container too...like an ammo can or a Lock N Lock. Good idea to make a video though! Quote Link to comment
+trooperdjb Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 My daughter is hearing impaired and we just started GeoCaching (2 weeks ago). She loves it and can't wait to go again. Hoping the weather will improve so we can. I've sent the link to her teacher and will show her the video to see what she thinks. Quote Link to comment
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