Tag: Nina Paley
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This Land Is Mine
I’ve been avoiding talking about Gaza not because I don’t care, it’s not even compassion fatigue, it’s more same shit, different genocide. I’ve been against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs for decades, but it does seem rather intractable, since as this wonderful video from Nina Paley points out, the land has been killed…
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Copying is not theft – wonderful cartoon
How I love Nina Paley – she of Sita Sings the Blues, who has created this animation and song and open-sourced the soundtrack production – leading to this wonderful big-band-style jazz song about copying arranged by Nik Phelps and sung by Connie Champagne. 1 minute of fun and education, can’t say fairer than that *nod*…
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…