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Comments on MetaFilter post * arms wide, then up, then down *Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:36:10 -0800Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:36:10 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60* arms wide, then up, then down *
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/speech-of-satan-to-his-legions-with-gestures/">A series of diagrams from A System of Elocution, with Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation (1846) by Andrew Comstock. To illustrate the proper gestures to adopt when public speaking Comstock has a figure enact out a section from Milton's Paradise Lost, in which Satan, expelled from Heaven and finding himself in Hell, delivers a speech to awaken his legions. </a>post:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:15:18 -0800curious nupublicdomainpublicdomainreviewparadiselostsignlanguagegestureelocutionBy: benito.strauss
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<a href="http://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/93526438021/muspeccoll-reading-lessons-in-the-nineteenth">Something similar</a>, in .gif form.
The whole book is available <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t16m4hw6d;view=1up;seq=9">here</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927292Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:36:10 -0800benito.straussBy: The Whelk
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....and heeeey macarena.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927330Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:42:25 -0800The WhelkBy: droplet
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One of the bits of the old HBO series Rome that I found myself strangely fascinated by (as an old forensics hand from high school), was the gesturing that David Bamber as Cicero would do in speeches he made in the Senate. He would move his hands and arms and position them just so off the side of his face, pause, and then speak. I wish I could find a clip of it as an example.
The Sanders gif reminds me of the Debbie Reynolds line early on in <em>Singin' in the Rain</em> about silent film acting being "a lot of dumb show". I never moved my hands or body much during forensics competitions.
And that's why I don't have my Best Actress Oscar today.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927334Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:52:40 -0800dropletBy: CrowGoat
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Watch the ex-players during desk or stand up shots during sports shows. Most of them go through the same repetitive motions:
-Hands together, fingertips touching.
-Reach out and form a kind of "hold the hips" movement.
-Move hands back together to touch fingertips.
-Variety: sometimes form a steeple with hands or rub hands together.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
One of the caveats I learned for television (I was a TV weatherman) was to never just let hands stay by your side...and absolutely forbidden was to put a hand in the pocket!comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927336Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:00:18 -0800CrowGoatBy: Alvy Ampersand
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Do The Satan! ♫Do-doot-doot-doo-doot-to-doot-doot-do♫comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927339Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:03:51 -0800Alvy AmpersandBy: cazoo
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Jazz hands!comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927347Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:29:09 -0800cazooBy: The Whelk
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and always be twirling, twirling towards freedom!comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927349Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:36:34 -0800The WhelkBy: The Zeroth Law
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<em>One of the bits of the old HBO series Rome...</em>
It was absolutely full of tiny pieces of ancient Roman culture that were dropped in without any special emphasis being placed on them, which only added to the feeling of authenticity.
I also observed the different gestures used in oratory by different characters, (Lucius Vorenus's first speech to the people of the Aventine on his candidacy for magistrate is a great example, as his accompanying gestures were deliberately stiff, ungainly and formal)
Roman gestures <a href="https://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/romangestures.html">used in oratory</a> apparently have a well-documented history. I'm informed that Gregory S. Aldrete's <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41539813?sid=21105279913111&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=2129">Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome</a> is a very solid foundation to start from. Many historians appear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i6k64BpHx0">to be curious</a> about the exact ways in which they were performed, since carvings and depictions of oratory are at a premium.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927358Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:08:10 -0800The Zeroth LawBy: feckless fecal fear mongering
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This is fantastic, looking forward to digging in.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueH3ihTN4OI">Here's the newsreader from Rome</a> doing I guess a less formal version? <a href="http://youtu.be/sNBJENYB3ts?t=3m40s">Here's a Senator</a> (but not Cicero), and here's <a href="http://youtu.be/WHHf7xVeuY0">Lucius Vorenus</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927365Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:26:14 -0800feckless fecal fear mongeringBy: Jon Mitchell
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Temba, his arms wide, then up, then downcomment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927369Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:36:03 -0800Jon MitchellBy: Hairy Lobster
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Came here for the STNG reference, was not disappointed.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927372Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:50:27 -0800Hairy LobsterBy: justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow
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With that many broad gestures of the whole arm he's in danger of taking flight.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927473Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:26:19 -0800justsomebodythatyouusedtoknowBy: bukvich
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<a href="https://thetruthandlight.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/joel-osteen-the-prints-of-satan/">Joel Osteen gesticulates like Satan.</a>
<a href="http://endtimeshofar.blogspot.com/2012/08/jay-z-diamond-hand-sign-satanic-or-not.html">Is Jay Z pushing Satanism?</a>
(The newsreader in <em>Rome</em> was my favorite character.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927483Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:46:47 -0800bukvichBy: ArgentCorvid
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Is "hand making a fist with thumb held to the outside of the hand, punctuating. every. word. by sharply moving it downward" in there?comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.146817-5927519Sat, 07 Feb 2015 07:52:29 -0800ArgentCorvid
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