And crazy busy. Chicago and Urbana and Ebertfest were great, amazing, beyond my ability to emotionally comprehend, I’ve never had a week like that before. Then to top it off, Sita won Best Narrative Feature at the Indian Film festival of Los Angeles, and moved to #1 on Critical Consensus. That’s just nuts.
Anyway, it …
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Formerly America\’s Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist, now independently animating a feature film, \”Sita Sings
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I left my hometown of Urbana, IL, almost 21 years ago, with dreams of becoming a new age crystal-wielding hippie. I was 20 years old. Now I’m 40 (almost 41!) and will be returning with a feature film, for a film festival that didn’t exist when I was growing up. But first: the University …
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If you know of an apartment in Lower Manhattan, Inner Brooklyn or Inner Queens, please let me know. I’m childfree and have a cat; I am also quiet, nonsmoking, nondrinking, TV-free, vegetarian, clean, and can pay up to $1,500 a month.? I prefer top floor apartments (no noise upstairs, more sunlight, views – and …
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Remember the days before digital copying? Every copy introduced small errors; a copy was always a degraded, inferior version of its parent. But entropy has a beauty of its own, as in this beautiful film By Alexander Stewart (it’s not embeddable, so you have to follow this link):
Errata is an animation made by photocopying …
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Or so says the Critical Consensus (for now – Sita has a teensy review sample size).
UPDATE: April 12 says we’re number TWO.
UPDATE UPDATE: April 28 says we’re NUMBER ONE. Unbelievable.
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Content is an unlimited resource. People can now make perfect copies of digital content for free. That’s why they expect content to be free?―?because it is in fact free. That is GOOD.
Think of “content”?―?culture?―?as water. Where water flows, life flourishes.
Containers?―?objects like books, DVDs, hard drives, apparel, action figures, and prints?―?are not free. They …
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How many independent animators get a Bangok high fashion line named after their film? None, unless they let people share:
“First of the treats for fans of the brand this year is the presentation of its Spring/Summer 2009 collection. Titled “Sita Sings the Blues” after the stunning animation film by US cartoonist/artist Nina Paley, the …
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We’re almost done authoring the Sita Sings the Blues DVD packaging and getting an order fulfillment service to ship it. Meanwhile, here’s something to do: sign up here with just your email address, and we’ll send you an mail with ordering information as soon as it’s ready.
Because the “content” is free – you can …
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