Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
If anyone needs to download Sita Sings the Blues or copy Mimi & Eunice or anything from any of my web sites, including this blog, do it now because they’re all going dark for 24 hours in protest of SOPA/PIPA and the lobbyists and bought politicians who wrote them and will write the next stupid … Continue reading “BLACKOUT”
Some people love Sita Sings the Blues enough to devote time and energy (and probably money!) to protesting it in public. My movie is now in the same league as the paintings of the late M. F. Hussein. I have arrived. Article: Troll Sena protests Sita Sings the Blues in San Jose Related: Aseem Chhabra … Continue reading “The Highest Praise”
Come see Sita Sings the Blues in Queens! Thursday July 21st 5pm to 8pm Starlite Pavillion 130-05 101st Avenue Richmond Hill, NY 11419 (map) Admission: $5 I will be there for a panel discussion afterwards, along with Aseem Chhabra (aka Shadow Puppet #1), Ravisharon Kaur, and Bina Mahabir. There’s an extra special reason you should … Continue reading “Sita at the Starlite, Thursday July 21st”
Economists talk about rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods, but Culture is neither rivalrous, nor non-rivalrous; it is anti-rivalrous. I. Rivalrous Rivalrous goods diminish in value the more they are used. For example, a bicycle: if I use it, it gets me from here to there, if you use it, it gets me nowhere. If I acquire … Continue reading “Culture is Anti-Rivalrous”
Sita Sing the Blues has a few Endorsed DVD distributors. In addition to QuestionCopyright.org and myself, there’s FilmKaravan, a distribution collective that handles “downstream” deals with VistaIndia and IndiePix. Their distributions are on amazon.com (I get a much smaller percentage from those than from my DVDs, but they reach a much wider market) and Netflix. … Continue reading “Turning down Netflix”