Tag: Sita Sings the Blues
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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…