Nina Paley, creator and animator of the remarkable film Sita Sings the Blues has made all of the .fla source files for the project available via Archive.org. Plus, she’s encouraging the public to do other cool stuff with the assets. …
Remember the “Little Superstar”?
Youtube Video
As it turns out, he’s a real actual person and not a short robot with awesome dance moves! His name is Thavakalai and he has a Myspace page.
Myspace Page
He likes cricket (big …
One of the first things I blogged when we switched over to WordPress was an interview with Sita Sings the Blues director Nina Paley. I still haven’t seen it (no doubt because of the retarded copyright issues that have held …
Today’s Whaddafuck award goes to the Indian Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist group that plans to develop and sell a soft-drink made from bovine wee-wee. I’m trying to be fairly open-minded about this, because god knows I’ve eaten some …
Indian artist SH Raza was rather surprised and dismayed when he went to present an exhibition of his own works…only to realize a bunch of the pieces were fakes!
BBC Article
Weirder yet, apparently some of them weren’t even copies …
Mommies in India have apparently decided that the anime Crayon Shin-chan is detrimental to their little precious’ behavior, so the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has banned it from TV.
ANN Article
Now, I wouldn’t want my kids to watch …
While Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling is ensconced in some evil lair, reclining naked on piles of cash wrenched from the pockets of millions of impressionable children (or, rather, the parents of millions of impressionable children), Warner Brothers is rubbing …
Next in my continuing educational series about Things That Want to Eat You (see my earlier post about Komodo dragons), I present: tigers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7487583.stm
An incredibly lucky and dogged Indian (Does that count as Asia? What the hell, they’re connected) …
Animator Nina Paley’s humorous re-telling of the Ramayana Sita Sings the Blues made its’ debut at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend, and Wired recently featured an interview with Paley.
Here’s the trailer:
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