I was feeling a little down these days... then I found this videoclip,"Just Imagine," through StumbleUpon. Ilana Yahav is an artist who uses sand on a glass table to create images. She also created other videoclips at her website. These videoclips look cool, but I haven't seen them all. I'm quite impressed. Oh yeah, I feel a little better now. :)

Tonight, I "stumbled upon" this cool website. One can create a storyboard using the templates for background scenes, characters, and text boxes. One can upload his/her own pictures into the storyboard. It goes up to 10 chapters and 80 pages. Wow... that's a lot. Go and check it out. I'm going to have fun with this one. Once I'm done creating a story, I'll see a way for me to share it with you. :) If you want to share, please do.

I was on Stumble Upon over the weekend, and I found this web video called "Dance, Monkeys, Dance." It looked really cool, but it had audio. Unfortunately, it was not captioned. So I contacted James Short of harkle.com to see if there is a way to get this captioned. James then emailed Ernie Cline, the person who created the dancing monkeys, and Ernie was willing to provide the transcript to get it captioned. Within two days, it's captioned. Yippie! See what one can do by email! :)

James put it on two websites: www.harkle.com and http://dotsub.com/films/dancemonkeys. It's a feature film on harkle.com; on dotSUB.com, it will be translated into foreign languages.

After viewing "Dance, Monkeys, Dance" with captions, I now understand it's a slam poem about "monkeys," i.e. humans. I love how the writer used the perspective of the monkey and a sense of humor in the poem and combined the photos with the poem.

So if you find something interesting online and it's not captioned, contact James Short at jshort@harkle.com. :) (FYI: He will contact the producer of the online media for permission, and try to get it captioned.)

I don't know if you all know about Rocketboom.com. It's a public service announcement about current events and/or satire about everyday life. This is one of my favorite programs, and I look forward to seeing this video every day when I get a chance.

Check to see what Michael Smolens of dotSUB.com says about captioning their videos. :) dotSUB.com is one of several online companies out there that captions media for the deaf. They also provide captions in other languages for the deaf and for the people who don't speak English.

Isn't this awesome!!! Please support this, and let them know how much you appreciate their efforts to do this.

UPDATE: Thanks to Todos la vie for asking the question. Once you get to dotSUB.com website, click on Latest, and then you'll see "Michael at Rocketboom Session during Podcamp NYC." Click on that.

As for Rocketboom latest episodes, go to Latest, and then you'll see a list of different episodes, which are chronologically dated. Enjoy!

Here's a cool website that has captioned videos. Check it out! Rocketboom!

To get captions:

1) Click on Translate
2) Click on the video you want to see
3) Click on Watch
4) Drop Down Menu - Click on English 100%
5) Enjoy!