 
Hi ASL Community!
My friend, Brian Trager, and I were talking about
the Steve Jobs video tribute that Apple posted
on their front page on Friday, Oct 5th.
It was well done, but one thing was missing: captions.
Many on Facebook and other social media platforms
voiced disappointment over the lack of captioned
access to the video tribute, which made us think
of the campaign, #captionTHIS.
I like the #captionTHIS campaign; it promotes
the vital need to caption content.
But why stop at captions?  Why not also interpret this
into our language, ASL?  Brian asked if I'd post an
interpreted version of the Jobs video tribute,
so I thought I'd give it a go.
First, a bit of background info:
For years, Mr. Jobs was well-known for issuing
electrifying announcements to throngs of
conference-goers, sending them into fits of euphoria.
This video tribute is a compilation
of some of those announcements.
It begins with a lone cello playing,
mellow but vibrant...
 
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love:
'I skate to where the puck is going to be,
not where it has been.'
And we've always tried to do that at Apple.
This is iMac; the whole thing is translucent,
you can see into it, it's so cool! [ applause ]
This amazing little device holds a thousand songs…
and it goes right in my pocket. [ applause ]
An iPod, a phone… and an Internet communicator...
[ applause ]  … are you getting it?
[ phone rings, woman answers]
Good morning, how can I help you?
[ Steve ] Yes, I'd like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please.
No, just kidding.  Wrong number, thank you.
[ audience laughs, applauds ]
[ solo cello continues to play ]
It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough.
It's technology married with liberal arts,
married with the humanities,
that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.
[ solo cello ends ]
 
