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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">just to share a nicely done, and inexpensive, "animation" that helps share traditional knowledge:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2gvsL4tsQ</span></p>
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<p><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">If you're also interested in the content, originally in Tagalog by Joey Ayala, below is a rough "translation" (can't get all the spirits right, but helps understanding), courtesy of Dr. Machel Malay: </span></p>
<p><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">in the song, the singer talks to the sea turtle, saying, 'sea turtle, the old one, you carry your home around with you, don't you have anywhere to put it, in the land you grew up in? With the slapping of the waves, and the currents of centuries, you still continue to crawl in the mud. And yet in the deep ocean you glimpse your freedom, bobbing and diving into the deeps. O sea turtle the old one, could you please teach me the way to make the heavy [load] lighter?'.... then he compares the sea turtle's situation to his own, asking 'sea turtle the old one, could we actually be kin? For even though I have a home, I have no place to put it. The land I once knew is full of fences, made even stronger by land titles and documents. O sea turtle the old one, I do not understand, the land I came from is now a property'...</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">And I also do much-much appreciate the original thread where this one branched out of. Good to hear from Richard, Dr. Hardman, and Uncle Rolland.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jimmy</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> now at DLSU-Manila</span></p>
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<p>On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:07:01 -0700, Julian Lang wrote:</p>
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<div>There are several types of animation. And there is a wide range of digital animation tools. So there are many questions to be answered initially. How do you folks want the animated story to look like exactly? Animated still images, cell animation, stop-frame? What I've discovered about animation as a Native language person and as an animator is that animation is incredibly labor intensive. And it can easily be pricey, If you asked to animate all of the stories, it can easily cost you 60K. Perhaps 1 at a time?</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><hr size="1" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></strong> Claire Bowern <br /><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></strong> ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br /><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></strong> Friday, September 16, 2011 7:04 AM<br /><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></strong> Re: [ILAT] Bears<br /></span><br />Hi Tammy,<br />Bardi people at One Arm Point have had success with children's stories for the local school by having the children dress up and play the parts of the characters. The older ones get involved as narrators and scene design and the younger ones play the characters. They've acted out the stories at school assemblies and videoed, and photos are taken which are then made into books. It's certainly not the same as animation but everyone got really into it, and it was lovely for the elders to see the stories come alive with the kids. They were so pleased to see it.<br />Claire<br /><br />On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:<br /><br />> Mitakuyapi (My relatives),<br />> <br />> We have discussed this topic in our office and we have mixed feelings about it. <br />> <br />> In the drawer of my desk we have ten stories our Treasured Elders made. Each story teaches a different value (show respect, help others, etc.) and they feature a Turtle and a Dragonfly. These are meant to be animated. Who knows, though, how long those stories are going to sit in my desk drawer. Once I talked with an animation company and do to a few minutes it was $60,000.00. <br />> <br />> We have always felt that anything in the language is beneficial. Perhaps it will create the spark in someone to become passionate about their language. <br />> <br />> Tammy DeCoteau<br />> AAIA Native Language Program<br />> <br /><br />Claire<br /><br /><br /></div>
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