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It Feels So Good (ASL Music Video)

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This music video is a rendition of Bill Gaither Trio’s song called, “LIFE” – a childhood fave of mine… but since I lost my cassette and that Bill Gaither Trio no longer sell their LIFE songs, I asked my husband, Damon Timm, to remake this song for me. We revised some of the lyrics as well.   Below is the video for your viewing pleasure.

For more Damon Timm’s music, go to: www.damonjustisntfunny.com/category/music

2009 – My Reflections

Good afternoon, folks.

This morning, I realized that we started off this year with a brand new African American President and that I will be starting off my first 2009 show at a District of Columbia Area Black Deaf Advocates fundraiser event in Fredrick, Maryland! I couldn’t think of a better event to kick off 2009 than this. As we all know, African Americans have waited a long time to witness such change like this and I look forward to celebrate with members of DCABDA on February 6th, 2009 and to help bring change that we need within our Black Deaf community. For more information about the event, please take a look at my calendar. read more »

Cry Me a River (ASL Music Video)

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Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake
Translated by Rosa Lee

Note: The translation is not the same as the lyrics.

Lyrics are below: read more »

District of Columbia Black Deaf Advocates Presents…

Happy holidays!

Here is a flyer for my first 2009 show at Maryland School for the deaf on February 6th, 2009. Check it out!

D-PAN on CNN News

Sean Forbes, co-founder of D-PAN, notified me via email that CNN aired its interview with Sean about D-PAN via CNN and CNN international few times this week. Check out the link to the video:

D-PAN ON CNN NEWS

Kudos to everybody!

-Rosa Lee

The Rosa Lee Show at Indiana/Kentucky Cities

The Rosa Lee Show had its first mini-tour in the state of Indiana/Kentucky last week.  Some of you may know that Indiana is a state that holds dear to my heart.  It was where I spent most of my youth living as a student at Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD). It is also a state where my mother was born and raised.  Both of my parents were classmates at ISD as well as my older brother and I. I was also reminded by my grandparents’ former students living in Fort Wayne that my grandparents also worked as a teacher at ISD before moving down south (Florida). It was definitely a treat to revisit my old stomping grounds and to reunite with my old friends. read more »

Captions, Mozilla Firefox, and Xiph’s Theora Codec

Wanted to take a moment to point out some additional movement to support captioning on the web: just read an article over at linux.com about a new mailing list and effort to bring captioning support to the free video codec Theora (which will be natively supported by Firefox in version 3.1).

This is important because Theora is an open-source (free!) video codec and having organizations such as Mozilla (who support Firefox) and websites like wikipedia.org use this format to display videos with captions is a terrific step!

So, we joined the new mailing list and hope you will too — we need to let the folks know that these efforts are important to us. As others have pointed out, sites like hulu and youtube are beginning to support/offer captions … let’s keep the ball rolling and let folks know that captions are important to everyone!

– Damon

PS: last month we added captions to all our videos (My Deaf Lady, NOYBTV: Season One, All I Want, and the Kondima Demo) and we subtitled the DVD (all by our self!) so we know it takes a bit of extra work, but it’s worth it!

The Rosa Lee Show at Jackson Heights, NY

Last Friday, I did a show at Lexington School for the Deaf at Jackson Heights, NY.  Instead of flying across the country like I usually do, we just simply drove up to New York and then return back on the same day.  Definitely a nice change for us.  As for the show, I had a wonderful time performing in front of middle and high school students. They’re wonderful audience.   I also had an opportunity to perform on the same stage that was used during Deaf Idol.  Their auditorium is a top-notch… superior bass and lighting system.  Definitely a deaf-friendly space!  Here are some pictures of the show.  Enjoy. read more »

The Rosa Lee Show at Brooklyn, Michigan

Greetings Folks!

Yep, we just upgraded our website! I know it has been a longggg overdue but I hope its worth the wait.  Kudos to Damon Timm for his hard work, developing this site. There are few new additions such as enabling video comments, new video previews and overall usability.

Since my last post, I did quite a few shows. One was held at Deaf Bilingual Coalition conference in Wisconsin, the other at Kentucky Deaf Arts Festival, and the most recent, Deaf Arts Festival in Michigan. Below are the pictures we took during our time there. I had a lot of fun getting to know my fellow performing artists as well as making new friends. read more »

All I Want (ASL Music Video)

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“All I Want” was filmed and edited by Bryan Horch.

The words/signs were created by Rosa Lee and the music by Damon Timm.

You can download the mp3 and read the lyrics at Damon’s website.

This video, along with many others, is available on The Rosa Lee Show (2004-2008) DVD.