Deaf Poets Society | Douglas Ridloff | TEDxVienna

Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller creating original works in American Sign Language. And in support of signing, his goal is to make ASL a part of the whole community, not just a part of a marginalized community. Douglas wants to make signing hip and significant.
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Douglas Ridloff is the owner, executive director and host of ASL SLAM (www.aslslam.com) a monthly open mic event in NYC that functions as a space for the Deaf community to creatively play with ASL through poetry performances, improv, games and storytelling, often bringing special guests from around the world to perform. As a widely popular platform, ASL SLAM has now been established as a monthly event in Washington DC, Chicago and Orlando with Douglas's oversight and guidance.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller creating original works in American Sign Language. He is the owner, executive director and host of ASL SLAM (www.aslslam.com) a monthly open mic event in NYC that functions as a space for the Deaf community to creatively play with ASL through poetry performances, improv, games and storytelling, often bringing special guests from around the world to perform. As a widely popular platform, ASL SLAM has now been established as a monthly event in Washington DC, Chicago and Orlando with Douglas's oversight and guidance. Recently, Douglas has organized performances at the Whitney Museum, the Jewish Museum, SITE Santa Fe and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and has traveled to perform his own poetry and to bring ASL SLAM to Deaf communities around the world, including Jamaica, Cuba, Finland, England, Sweden and Australia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@allergynation]

For future TED Talks led by Deaf presenters, I would suggest making the entirety of the video from the perspective of one camera man. It was very distracting to the Deaf eye to have different angles and pans, especially considering half of the poem was shown from the presenters back-side, leaving the virtual audience out from the poem! :)

[@duffmartin6069]

I agree had vary had time fooling on my small 12 inch computer screen. Thanks for comment Jacob!

[@MicheleoTuTo]

I don't understand why I see this mistake over and over again: I'm hearing, but it took me 3 seconds the first time I saw a talk with a deaf person to realize that wasn't ok for anyone who wanted to follow the signing. Imagine a hearing speaker, and having the sound of their voice constantly moved from left to right, pushed far away with echoes, then super close and loud, then barely audible and muffled: how is it possible that whoever produced this video didn't realize it?
And this falls precisely in a definition of accessibility that I heard from Christine Sun Kim: feeling comfortable, not needing to ask for special things or treatments, because whoever created the communication already thought about it and took care of these aspects.
Incredibly frustrating.

[@alexisbiles1295]

Hi

[@japonesrene]

Next time you invite a D/deaf speaker try to focus on the speaker only. Make speaker bigger and audience screen on the corner that way we can see speaker sign clear.

[@TheConstantSeeker]

That interpreter was on point!

[@KHobbies_cina]

Usually the Deaf will have a script for the interpreter, and they will prepare beforehand.

[@aslasl3205]

Regardless of having a script, the Interpreter was Excellent! Yes, the interpreter understood where the discourse was going however, interpreters do not memorize the script- He was fantastic! Kuddos to the interpreter!!

[@bronwynschlaefer2958]

Real captions please!!! Auto captions have no punctuation and some errors, so its hard for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users who don't sign and second language learners.

[@RhondaJ1234]

It is now captioned.

[@susayoun]

This is incredible. The musical collaboration was so beautiful.

[@elenablue1529]

LOVELY presentation, and thank you.

[@alexisbiles1295]

Hey

[@michaelsandell4688]

So if he's from Italy, but the event was in Vienna, was he signing in Italian or in Austrian?

[@Zilla766]

Douglas was signing in American because he's from America (New York City), but I have no idea why he had his talk in another country.

[@isabellacaccia151]

This is ASL

[@leonw.9298]

How do you have 15mil. Subs but so low views?

[@jackxiao1054]

People might think this ted is for deaf people only

[@HOMOSAPIEN-0]

Nice

[@gonderage]

what if someone clipped his uninterpreted poem and people just saw it out of context? it'd look like TEDx turned into a dance competition except that it has legitimate linguistic value in it for ASL speakers.

[@RobertDMoore]

Champ!

[@isabellavanderdys8226]

This is Makkari's husband

[@dommcgill6647]

♥️

[@willlexie]

POV: You found this video because you ship Drukkari.

[@HOMOSAPIEN-0]

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