New T-Shirt From Joe Martin and Andrea Barberi!

[Sandy Fleming]

To be fair, Val, I don't think the star is very clear, even though it was
otiginally four-pointed and I photoshopped it to make it eight-pointed like
an asterisk! Adjusting the contrast doesn't help so I'll have to search for
some more Hubble photographs!

Of course, just the sign "deaf" isn't much to have on a teeshirt, though
sometimes I feel like getting DEAF tattooed across my forehead so that I
don't have to keep telling people! I have a little "slashed ear" badge but
nobody ever notices it!

What I'm really aiming for is putting some sentences into this "gothic" SW
and getting them printed down teeshirts, because teeshirt discussion is
quite popular, and I envisage people at the Deaf Club asking, "What's all
this then?" and I explain that it's written sign language and tell them what
it says and show them how some of it works... and who knows, maybe getting
someone interested in it!

You can explain to a signer that it's possible to write sign language, but
usually it just doesn't "click". I believe people could come to recognise
the standard symbols and yet always think about it as something they don't
do. Then one day they might see it in a different situation or a different
form, and somehow it can "click" even though it never did before.

I wonder what other "dark" graphics could be used for SW symbols... a little
galaxy for "rub"... the planet Saturn for "brush"... and so forth!

But now I'm thinking out loud...!

Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]On Behalf Of
> Valerie Sutton
> Sent: 08 September 2003 21:33
> To: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Subject: Re: New T-Shirt From Joe Martin and Andrea Barberi!
>
>
> SignWriting List
> September 8, 2003
>
> Ok. I am sorry, Sandy. I stand corrected. I would never have seen that
> light as a Contact Touch symbol, but Wayne did, and that is what is
> important!
>
> I think it is great that you are combining art with SignWriting...
>
> I will look up the term "Gothic Art" later to learn what it is...
>
> And Sandy, don't change a thing...we all see things differently...Val
> ;-)
>
> --------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 01:27 PM, Wayne Smith wrote:
>
> > Valerie -
> >      I think Sandy WAS using SignWriting symbols.  The star in the
> > background was the contact symbol.  I found it a wonderful and
> > creative mix
> > of SW and Gothic art.
> >        - Wayne in Maine
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG>
> > To: <SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: New T-Shirt From Joe Martin and Andrea Barberi!
> >
> >
> >> SignWriting List
> >> September 8, 2003
> >>
> >> Dear SW List, and Sandy!
> >> Thank you for sharing your teeshirt design, Sandy...I was referring
> >> specifically to T-Shirts that have SignWriting symbols on them....do
> >> you have a SignWriting T-Shirt design?
> >>
> >> What is a goth festival? ;-)
> >>
> >> Val ;-)
> >>
> >> --------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Sandy Fleming wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Everbody!
> >>>
> >>> Hmmm... how differently we all think!
> >>>
> >>> I was designing a teeshirt to get printed and came up with this:
> >>> http://sandyfleming.org/bsl/teeshirts/teeshirts.htm
> >>>
> >>> Mind you, it is to wear at a goth festival!
> >>>
> >>> (the BSL sign for "deaf" is two fingers touching the ear - only, for
> >>> artistic reasons, I thought it better not to show the ear!)
> >>>
> >>> Sandy
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]On Behalf Of
> >>>> Valerie Sutton
> >>>> Sent: 08 September 2003 19:09
> >>>> To: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> >>>> Subject: New T-Shirt From Joe Martin and Andrea Barberi!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> SignWriting List
> >>>> September 8, 2003
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear SignWriting List, and Joe and Andrea!
> >>>> Last week I went to my Post Office, and there was an exciting
> >>>> package
> >>>> from Joe Martin and Andrea Barberi....SignWriting T-Shirts
> >>>> (grin).....THANK YOU, Joe and Andrea, for the great gift!
> >>>>
> >>>> SignWriting T-Shirts will soon be available for purchase. I hope to
> >>>> offer them on our SignWriting web site. You will be able to order by
> >>>> email, web, fax, postal mail or phone...Plus I hope that someday
> >>>> other
> >>>> retailers will be interested in stocking them and selling them...so
> >>>> if
> >>>> anyone knows of other stores that would like to carry SignWriting
> >>>> T-Shirts, please tell us... Here is the design....I am guessing the
> >>>> mystery person modeling the shirt is Joe? (smile)...   Val ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>