Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Deaf Ninja, Austin Andrews

Austin tells us a repeated habit throughout is to daydream all over the place and imagine things and allow them to expand, eh, it happens, what are you gonna do? He'll show. His younger brother also hard of hearing wore the old fashioned hearing aids the shape of a box strapped to his chest with earplugs jabbed in the side and going up separately to his ears. He, Austin, teased his brother about how stupid his brother looks with his ridiculous box hearing aid and his brother got so mad at Austin that the brother ripped out his ear plugs and used them as weapons to wail on Austin whirling windmill style. We see Austin's mind open up to the idea of Deaf ninja. Austin leans in ... N.I.N.J.A. eh? Why, he can see the storyboard, the whole film, and describe it.

Austin is a very good story teller. You can see an actor at heart. His facial expression gauged carefully, avoiding the unpleased miffed frustrated visage so common. Austin brings cinematographic elements into his speech quite graphically. You see the raindrop stop in midair, the action taking place outside the raindrop as if reflected the parallaxes of the ninja as subject with the camera swinging into position, the blur of warriors, the weapons attached to the body, the ninja's fighting stances in series, you see the camera go sideways as the hero runs across a circle of attackers attaching their faces as if running the inside walls of a barrel. We see ninja land like a cat and return to ninja posture of stoic equanimity. The arrested raindrop is returned to again, that is, we return from the reflection of the raindrop, the camera swings around, the single drop continues its fall in front of us. It is the Matrix.

Little brother, "What are you on about? This thing isn't useful. I can't hear anything." See. How very odd. Hmmm?

I had a devil of a time finding this video, going through pages of results and trying dozens of searches. Finally [deaf austin] brought it right smack to the top. Austin reminds me of Jeff and his gang. They are all this expressive and friendly and approachable. Their styles are alike. The very sparse fingerspelling is clear as a ringing bell.

2 comments:

Methadras said...

I came here looking for throwing star action, smoke disappearances, coming out of the shadows ninja style, and I'm really really disappointed.

Chip Ahoy said...

You didn't see the the darkness, the seeing all through a slot, the rain, the furtive figures attacking, and yes the star weapons stashed on the body as weapons discharged with deadly accuracy slashing their faces?

Somebody is trolling the h-e-double chopsticks out of my old Flickr account, favoriting hundreds of photos as if collecting a whole book. When I look at that things she is favoriting I go, really, I made an ice cream cake? Man, I sure did make a lot of things when I see somebody go back and pick over them like this.