Platform Animation Festival

Portland, Oregon’s Platform Animation Festival is coming up next month, and I’ll be screening over 40 minutes of the Sita Sings the Blues work-in-progress.
Friday, June 29, 2:00pm
NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
You can buy tickets here. Q & A to follow, of course. Hope to see you there!

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Opera Jawa

Here’s a beautiful and fascinating new film for Ramayana afficianados: Opera Jawa by Indonesian director Garin Nugroho. It’s currently doing festival rounds and specialty screenings (like the one I attended last night at the Asia Society) but hopefully will gain wider distribution. As a freaky surreal art-house spectacle it’s not really destined for mainstream … [...]

Art for Animals

With all the excitement of getting food poisoning and then overhauling my blog, I forgot to mention the upcoming Art Auction for Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. It’s this Saturday, May 19th, 7pm at the Jivamukti Yoga School: 841 Broadway, 2nd floor, between 13th & 14th Streets, just south of Union Square. I’ve donated framed archival … [...]

What a day!

Today I learned why WordPress creates a whole new domain for installing itself. My wee little lesson involved wiping out everything on my web site for a few hours. Now I’m older, wiser, and willing to accept my new homepage has a “.blog” prefix. I hope you, dear reader, can accept that as well.

In … [...]

Today is the First Day of the Rest of my Blog

Today I switched blogging software: from Blogger to WordPress. My archives – the “old” blog – are moving but we don’t have a directory for them yet; please be patient. Meanwhile, you can still see all the other fine features of ninapaley.com by using the same trusty links on the right. [...]