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05.05.01 SM Meeting Siepee

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 50th clip - 3:20 m./4:38 h. Since this is the 50th clip, let it be a time to pause for a little celebration and reflection. It has been a year ago last summer when the story-epic-myth began its next manifestation in the form of a blog - video, art, and words weaved into [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Aug 06 2008

For DBC in Milwaukee, A Marching Song!

The Deaf Child: A Mythology I am reposting this revised “marching” song I wrote last year when the DBC (before they were formed) led a protest at AGBell's summer conference on AVT in Virginia. This song was written and is now dedicated to DBC and their noble, honorable, and very important work for deaf children worldwide. Octopus Volt refers to [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Tech Thu, Jun 26 2008

05.04.01 Siepee’s Monastery

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 49th clip - Title: Entering the Monastery - 6:01 m./4:35:17 h. This clip/post focuses on the world's first public (free) school for the deaf in Paris, France, known either as the INJS or the St. Jacques school. The formal name is, in English - the National Institution of the Deaf Youth. To view the [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Culture Sat, Jun 21 2008

05.03.01 Siepee’s Monastery

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 48th clip - Title: Back to the Deaf Child - 6:30 m./4:29:16 h. This clip is posted with gratitude to my soul brother, eLiot Helman, who was my first “Aaron” voicing the myth for me in 1994 at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. We first met at Gallaudet in 1981 when we performed together as [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jun 12 2008

05.02.01 Siepee’s Monastery

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 47th Clip - Title: Discovering the Deaf Girls - (04:26 m. - 4:22:46 h.) This clip is posted with homage to Charles-Michel de l'Epee who created the first Deaf “sacred” space by establishing an educational institution critical in the nascence of sign languages, deaf culture, and deaf communities. It is important to note that he [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Culture Sun, Jun 08 2008

05.01.01 Siepee’s Monastery

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 46th Clip - Title: Finding Monks - (04:03 mins - 4:18:20 hours) This first clip of chapter 5 is posted to give more recognition to Etienne de Fay, one of the earliest deaf teacher of the deaf in history. Even though the history of deaf education began in Spain in the 1500's, barring more discoveries [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, May 12 2008

04.15.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 45th Clip - Title: Fleeing the Dark Side - 2:36 mins. This last short clip of Hein's Castle is posted with a pointing out to the deaf community about Daniel Plainview, a despicable hearing father in the new film “There Will Be Blood”, who mocked his son's proud Deafhood. The dark side [...]
Art and Storytelling Tue, May 06 2008

04.14.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 44th Clip - Title: Breakout from the Castle - (05:27 mins - 4:11:41 hours) Posting this second to last clip of chapter 4 with a brief message. We must never forget the crimes on deaf people from the past. Most information about those crimes is lost to time. With creative mythology, some [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Apr 30 2008

04.13.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 43rd Clip - Title: Final Surgical Experiment - (04:01 mins - 4:06:14 hours) Posted with hands forward out saluted open-palms good luck for another wrinkle in the transformation of DeafRead and related sites produced by the gray matter upthere and mousestrokes of taylorinfomedia. Now click away to view the final brutal surgical experiment done on the deaf [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Sun, Apr 27 2008

04.12.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 42nd Clip - Title: Signing Hands Swatted - (06:18 mins - 4:02:13 hours) Tired of cochlear implant topics and movie reviews? Here is a change of scenery. Click on to find out what happened to the Deaf Child after the second surgical experiment. A classic oral classroom scenario. Click here for YouTube if above [...]
Language Education Tue, Apr 22 2008

04.11.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 41st Clip - Title: The Second Experiment - (06:18 mins - 3:58:03 hours) This clip is posted in gratitude to Brian Malzkuhn who was instrumental in making it possible for me, in the spring of 1994, to teach a deaf history course at Ohlone College where the myth was used for the first time in a [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Mon, Apr 14 2008

04.10.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 40th Clip - Title: Selling False Hope - (04:30 mins - 3:51:45 hours) This clip is posted for those oral deaf people who “exclaim” about their speaking skills, needing to express “I can speak”. Signing deaf people usually don't do that, not needing to express “I can sign”. The spirit behind this clip, [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Apr 08 2008

04.09.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 39th Clip - Title: Behind Oralism's Facade - (05:35 mins - 3:47:15 hours) This post is for all deaf people who experienced oral classrooms and knew what was behind the facade of oralism in those schools. Sign language could not be suppressed. It is like if you try to move the light on [...]
Language Audism Education Fri, Mar 28 2008

04.08.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 38th Clip - Title: Hein's First Experiment - (05:18 mins - 3:41:40 hours) Caution: Graphic ASL description of an experimental cure of deafness. Not for the faint-hearted. A picture included. This clip is posted in memory of those deaf people who needlessly suffered from painful experiments in the attempts by quacks, parents, scientists, and doctors from [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Culture Sun, Mar 23 2008

04.07.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 36th Clip - Title: In Oral Classroom - (04:43 m. - 3:36:22 h.) Many deaf people, including myself, had experienced oral classrooms therefore this clip is posted in salutation to them. Enjoy observing the Deaf Child's first experience in an oral classroom. Click away . . . Click here for YouTube if above undownloadable or too slow. [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Fri, Mar 21 2008

04.06.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 36th Clip - Title: First Speech Lesson - (08:59 m. - 3:31:39 h.) This clip is posted in gratitude to the 1992 committee of the GUAA's Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund who granted funding for my airfare to Europe that summer. See here for this blog's first deaf history video clip of the oldest oral school [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Mon, Mar 17 2008

04.05.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 35th clip. Title: Meeting Dr. Hein. (04:41 m. - 3:22:40 h.) 2 photos below. 1 is of a large painting of the Father of German Oralism: Samuel Heinicke and this inspired the name-sign for Dr. Hein. Another one is of a painting of his school which existed in the 1800's until its destruction during World War [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Mar 04 2008

04.04.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 34th clip of DC myth. Clip Title: First Hearing Test. (03:52 m. - 3:17:59 h.) This clip is posted in joy to someone I just conversed with - who is following the myth and understanding the deep interplay of connections to everything Deaf this story entails. The more I ponder on this myth, the [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Feb 20 2008

04.03.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 33rd clip of DC myth - Clip Title: Into the Castle. (07:36 m. - 3:14:07 h.) This clip is posted with congratulations to Tayler and Jared for such a wonderful DR conference! I am seeing impacts DeafRead and the blogsphere are making on the deaf community. The Pepsi-AgBAD uproar and how the NAD response [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Tue, Feb 12 2008

04.02.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 32nd clip of DC myth - Clip Title: Return to the Feral. (08:39 m. - 3:06:31 h.) I would like to post this clip in gratitude and homage to Harlan Lane and his book, When the Mind Hears. In 1984, in the streets of Manhattan on a bicycle, I vividly remembered the moment someone [...]
Art and Storytelling Sun, Jan 27 2008

04.01.01 Hein’s Castle

The Deaf Child: A Mythology Clip Title: Finding Dr. Hein. First clip of 4th chapter (09:02 m. - 2:57:52 h.) This clip is posted in gratitude to Joyanne Rasmus Burdett and Marlon “Lon” Kuntze, my former CSDFremont colleagues. They, in 1992, wrote letters for my application to the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund maintained by the GUAA. It was [...]
Art and Storytelling Fri, Jan 25 2008

03.11.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology (30th&Last Clip of 3rd C. Title: Becoming Feral, 03:26 min, 2:48:50 hrs) Posted on the day we honor our fallen human being we chose to symbolize our still ongoing fight for equal rights, first for the blacks but now for all, MLK, Jr. Click into this vidclip to discover the dark feral side of [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jan 21 2008

03.10.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 29th Clip Title: Into the Forest - 10th of 3rd chp - 05:34 min - 2:45:24 hrs This clip is posted with good wishes of a new year to all. The DeafRead, AGBell, NAD conferences, the Olympics, and the presidential elections in the year of 2008. In this clip, find out what VisMa had to [...]
Language Education Culture Sun, Jan 06 2008

03.09.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: The First Flight Up - 28th clip - 08:34 min. - 2:39:50 h. This vid-clip of the deaf child's first flight up . . . is posted in gratitude to Paddy Ladd who soared with his ideas. In 1992, Paddy walked into my deaf history classroom at Fremont and out with a synopsis of the [...]
Language Education Culture Sat, Dec 29 2007

03.08.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: Philosopher Aris - 27th c. - 8th of 3rd C. - 7:07 m. - 2:31:16 h. Posted with the vision that there will appear a distinguished lyceum of the Best and the Brightest of deaf and hearing ASL artists to meet and raise notches up in the artistry of ASL literature with originals and translations. Can [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Dec 24 2007

03.07.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: Meeting the Deaf Baby/Child - 26th clip - 7th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:36 - 2:24:09) Posted with many good wishes to the DeafRead team in hosting their conference in San Francisco. Vblog technology, live webcasting, and the emergence of a geninue public “sub-altern” discourse on “deaf-ness/dom/hood” give great opportunities and promises t...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Dec 17 2007

03.06.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology Clip Title: The Return Home - 25th clip - 6th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:41 - 2:17:33) New Addition: Synopsis. Find out why the human owl, now VisMa, faced challenges and how it altered Archae Law into a new one. click on screen to begin and please wait to download if your computer is [...]
Art and Storytelling Sat, Dec 08 2007

03.05.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 24th clip, 5th of 3rd Chapter, 06:24 m - 02:2:12:52 h. Clip Title: Becoming a god. Posted in honor of and good luck to a man, akin, nearing completion of an extraordinary project, akin to my feelings about this whole myth project. Inside a simple story finds so much “dD”; so much “dD” inside a life of [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Dec 03 2007

03.04.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 23rd ASL video clip (03:19, 2:06:28) from Katz's Deaf Child mythology on the “deafhood” (growth/process/history) of the deaf community (deaf experience/deaf history). Posted in thanks to one particular short story by Arthur C. Clarke and my Judaic heritage from our “people of the Book”. [...]
Art and Storytelling Fri, Nov 30 2007

03.03.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology 22nd clip, 3rd of 3rd C., 04:25, 2:03:09 - Clip Title: The Council of Gods. This clip is posted with my knees down on the ground and head bowed to _____________. click on screen to begin, wait if your computer is “older”, and click back to read down. Click [...]
Art and Storytelling Fri, Nov 30 2007

03.02.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology (21st clip, 2nd of 3rd C.) 05:20 - 1:58:44 - Where was the human owl transported to? This clip is posted in gratitude to what I call - science fiction in words and films. A blend of Arthur C. Clarke, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Yes, grateful to those artists and their movies and books: [...]
Art and Storytelling Tue, Nov 27 2007

03.01.01 Yairusaylim

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 20th clip and the first of the 3rd chapter of the Deaf Child mythology. 1:53:24 - After encircling the planet, find out where next did the human owl go. This clip is posted in gratitude to Ron and Hedy Udkovich Stern for “being there” at CSDFremont where the myth first, in 1992, became [...]
Art and Storytelling Tue, Nov 27 2007

02.09.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 19th clip [04:20 mins.] and the last of the second chapter of the DC Myth. 1:50:25. Several new additions here: time counters, divisions of deafhood questions, addition of deaf studies commentary. Enjoy the conclusions the human owl arrived at after traveling all over the continents and observing four basic ways deaf [...]
Culture Mon, Nov 19 2007

02.08.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 18th clip of the DC Myth. NEW ADDITION: Bibliography! Come and find out why the human owl became overjoyed when observing a life of a deaf person in the Western Land. (Move your cursor to the each category on the right to read brief description of all 12 chapters - a [...]
Sat, Nov 17 2007

02.07.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 17th clip of the DC myth. NEW ADDITION: deafhood questions and deaf history commentary. For each video clip (section/strophe), questions will be posed to viewers for reflection and commentary for elaboration on the connection between the myth symbols/events to deaf history and the deaf experience. That way, both hearing and deaf viewers [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Nov 15 2007

DustJacket of the DC Deafhood WorkBook

The Deaf Child: A Mythology A picture here of the cover of the current draft of the The Deaf Child: A Mythology - A Deafhood Workbook. Notice something? The title of the book is in ASL when you open and close the book repeatedly! ASL Interpretations of the bookcover are numerous. WINGS: Seeing on the Wings [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Nov 15 2007

02.06.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 16th clip of the DC myth (6th of the 2nd chapter). After the Eastern deaf baby and the Southern deaf toddler, discover the tragedy the human owl observed in the Northern Land. This clip is posted in honor and memory of hundreds of thousands of deaf people who suffered the same [...]
Tue, Nov 13 2007

02.05.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology The 15th clip of the Deaf Child myth (5th of the 2nd chapter). This clip is posted in gratitude to Barbara Goldman who gave me the opportunity, for the first time in early 1990, to present the Deaf Child myth as a stage play at UCLA. Three pictures of the performance here! And thanks to the performers, Anthony [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Nov 12 2007

02.04.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 14th clip of the Deaf Child mythology (4th of the 2nd chapter). Find out what the human owl saw at the Southern Land. Play Quicktime version For those who can not download the clip, go to youtube and type ‘cnkatz'.
Art and Storytelling Wed, Nov 07 2007

02.03.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 13th clip of the Deaf Child myth (3rd of the 2nd chapter). Enjoy finding out what the human owl discovered what the parents at the Eastern Land did to their deaf baby. Therefore, this clip is posted in honor of all the deaf human beings who underwent the same fate of the baby [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Nov 04 2007

02.02.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 12th clip of the Deaf Child mythology (the 2nd of the 2nd chapter, Archae Law). This clip is posted in gratitude to my former Tripod students who, in the fall of 1989, were the first people to view this myth. They are Jacob Shamberg, Brad Cohen, Jacky Szpiro, Nicole Elgrably, Joseph Nazarian, Chanel [...]
Art and Storytelling Tue, Oct 30 2007

02.01.01 Archae Law

The Deaf Child: A Mythology The Deaf Child Mythology by Charles Katz is back into action. Apologies to those who waited for the next installment. There was some snafu this vblogsite had with the server. This is the eleventh vidclip of the Deaf Child mythology and the first in the second chapter, Archae Law. Enjoy watching how the human owl [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Oct 29 2007

01.10.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the tenth (and last, for now) clip of the first chapter from the DC myth. 7 minutes long. NewsFlash: 01.01 and 01.02 clips are revised, check on them. What's next: the updated C1 Mandala and Paddy Ladd's song which prefaces this mythology. This 01.10 clip is posted with deep gratitude to Carole Marie Welsh Forest, of Massachusetts/Vermont, for [...]
Art and Storytelling Sun, Aug 19 2007

01.09.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 9th clip of the 1st chapter from the DC Myth. It is 8 minutes long so please wait as it download fully. This clip is posted in gratitude to two plays of a trilogy developed by Dr. William Moses, one of my several theatre arts professors at Gallaudet. It was how both plays placed in my lifepath and influenced me for which I am grateful for. The first [...]
Higher Education Art and Storytelling Fri, Aug 17 2007

01.08.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology The 8th clip of the first chapter from the DC Myth. 6 minutes long. The clip was done and posted with praying thoughts of an important person who, over the years, reacts to the whole myth enterprise with anathema. Go with the flow, swim along the currents, accept the eddies in your river of life, and let "IT" go . . . Enjoy this clip about the the joy [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 16 2007

01.07.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the seventh vidclip of the first chapter from the DC myth. Posted in the blessed memory of my Uncle Jerry. Note: new page added today - Gratitudes to . . . Enjoy our Deaf Earth Mother's discovery of her newborn . . . Play Quicktime version
Art and Storytelling Sun, Aug 05 2007

01.06.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the sixth vidclip of the 1st chapter of the DC myth. This clip is posted to thank my/our two princes of players, Bernard Nathan Bragg and John Lee Maucere, for the shoulders to lean on. Parental discretion: depicition of a birth, slightly graphic but no gore. Rated PG. Not PG-13. Play Quicktime version
Art and Storytelling Fri, Aug 03 2007

01.05.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the fifth clip of the first chapter from the Deaf Child mythology. Notice a new widget on your right with an orange square. Click on it if you want to recieve automatic notice whenever a new clip is posted here. Thank you, JK, for explaining it to me. Enjoy the return of our Deaf Earth Mother to her family. Play Quicktime version
Art and Storytelling Wed, Aug 01 2007

01.04.01 The Creation of VisMa

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This fourth videoclip of the myth was done for an Deaf Child, Brianne DiGiovanni, age 8 same . . . and signed during the "first" firestorm by her people toward Castle Volt on the green hills of Virginia . . . Play Quicktime version
Art and Storytelling Fri, Jul 27 2007

For the Deaf Child, a poem/song

The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is a poem/song I created in honor of today and tomorrow's events in Virginia- Please read the poem/song metaphorically . . . I will do the ASL (with captions and maybe voice) version when the protest in Virginia is over. Please feel free to sign this marching song in ASL or/and English/Voice, whatever pleases you. DO it with loving kindness. Share! Empower! [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Jul 26 2007


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