Because I’m in France:
Merci, Daphne!
Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
A segment on Sita Sings the Blues on NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, starting around 13:30.
The King and I has some great musical numbers, but overall it’s a pretty dang offensive and stupid movie. Luckily, it’s given a new life by Fagottron:
Fagottron is the same remix artist who gave us the stunning “Alice”:
UPDATE: can anyone arrange this as a show tune? I originally heard it in my head as a show tune, but I’m musically illiterate. See the growing links list of awesome covers here.
Feel free to remix, re-record, or otherwise re-make this song so I can animate to it.Full interview on Thirteen.org.
See me babble away on my current favorite subject, copyright and what’s wrong with it, over at questioncopyright.org. Here’s a sample:
Yes, the video is squished horizontally, because it was in DV format but uploaded on square pixels (I can’t wait until everyone just uses solid-state progressive-scan cameras). Also the audio is way compressed – it thoundth like I’m lithping. But the ideas come through.
This interview was conducted by Karl Fogel on November 6, 2008, at the Software Freedom Law Center in New York.