Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
Music: “Woman” by John Lennon (1980) Everything else: Nina Paley Another chapter in my feature film “Seder-Masochism.” Donate here: questioncopyright.org/sedermasochism Exodus 32: 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall … Continue reading “The Golden Calf (Return of the Goddess)”
I’m gearing up to do the most interesting Seder-Masochism episode: the Golden Calf, wherein the stiff-necked people disobey Moses and revert to their pagan, goddess-worshipping ways. Lotta design work this month, because goddesses.
After a little over a year and a half, and many interruptions, we finally finished our embroidermated short, Chad Gadya. While we were working on it (actually I was working, Theo was procrastinating) this other embroidered short came out, but there are differences. Thanks to Theodore Gray’s stitchcoding in Mathematica, we weren’t restricted by (invariably crappy) off-the-shelf … Continue reading “Chad Gadya embroidermation finished at last!”
Which picture best depicts Copyright? Vote in comments. I’ll be asking this question tonight at this talk: Questioning Copyright: Sharing or Stealing? Date: 5/11/2015 Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:30 PM This event will be at Pizza M, 208 West Main Street, downtown Urbana. Delicious snacks from Pizza M will be provided. Description: Does … Continue reading “What Is Copyright?”
So I’m animating an ass for Seder-Masochism, so the Hebrews have something to carry their stuff out of Egypt so their arms are free to let them walk jauntily and leap around. I export a test and see this weird artifact on the upper foreleg. Flash is rendering the shape as it looks in vector editing mode. If … Continue reading “A Bug in My Ass”
Here is Exodus 3-7, too much to quote here. Featuring the Burning Bush, Moses, Hebrew slaves, strange gods (actually goddesses), Aharon, Pharaoh, a staff turning into a snake, and sing-along phonetic hieroglyphs. The introduction to this scene is “God Calls Moses to Mt. Horeb”. Music: Go Down Moses Arranged and performed by Louis Armstrong (with … Continue reading “Moses Goes Down”