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Nina Paley

December 02, 2023

Nina Carolyn Paley[1] (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator, and free culture activist. She was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, after which she worked primarily in animation.[2] She is perhaps best known for creating the 2008 animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues, based on the Ramayana, with parallels to her personal life. In 2018, she completed her second animated feature, Seder-Masochism, a retelling of the Book of Exodus as patriarchy emerging from goddess worship.

Nina Paley
Paley in 2009
BornNina Carolyn Paley
(1968-05-03) May 3, 1968 (age 55)
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Area(s)Writer, cartoonist, animator
Notable works
https://blog.ninapaley.com

Paley distributes much of her work, including Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, and all the original work in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft license.

Since January 2021, Paley runs the podcast Heterodorx with Corinna Cohn.[3]

Early life edit

Paley was born in Urbana, Illinois,[4] the daughter of Jean (Passovoy) and Hiram Paley.[5] Her family was Jewish.[6][7] Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois and was mayor of Urbana for a term in the early 1970s.[8]

She attended local elementary and high schools, graduating from University High School in 1986.[9] She illustrated a "History of the North Pole" comic in collaboration with University High School history teacher Chris Butler, and attended the University of Illinois, studying art for two years before dropping out.[10] While in college, her comic "Joyride" ran in The Daily Illini newspaper.[9]

Nina's Adventures and other work edit

 
The Hots strip

In 1988, Paley moved to Santa Cruz, California, and began to write and draw the strip Nina's Adventures. In 1991, she illustrated The Santa Cruz Haggadah[11] and moved to San Francisco.

In 2002, she wrote and directed Fetch!, a humorous short cartoon feature based on a variety of optical illusions, which has enjoyed popularity ever since.[12][13]

Beginning in 2002, Paley focused her work on the controversial subject of population growth. The most notable entry she produced on this subject was The Stork, in which the natural environment is bombed to destruction by storks dropping bundled babies. The film is a compact expression of the conflict between the increasing human population and the ecosystem in which it must live. The 3½ minute film was a considerable success at festivals and resulted in an invitation to the Sundance Film Festival.[13]

During this period of this time, Paley also contributed several comic strips for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, of which she is a member and occasional spokesperson.[14] Her work for the group still remains on their official website.[15]

In 2012, Paley posted an animation to Vimeo titled This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history; it was named a Staff Pick.[16]

Between projects, Paley has worked as a freelance director at Duck Studios in Los Angeles.[17] She has also taught in the Design and Technology section of Parsons, part of The New School.[18]

Apocalypse Animated edit

 
An animation depicting the Tree of life in Revelation 22:14, part of the project Apocalypse Animated
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apocalypse Animated.

In February 2022, Paley completed her project Apocalypse Animated, creating nearly 300 animated loops for the Book of Revelation.[19][20] Paley also created lenticular cards of 10 selected animations.[21][22] Paley released Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixel) uncompressed Apple ProRes videos of almost 12 minutes of animation under a CC-BY-SA license and encouraged remixing of the material, proposing an audio reading of the Book of Revelation and mixing it with the animation.[23]

Feature films edit

As of 2018, Paley has created two animated feature films.

Sita Sings the Blues edit

Main article: Sita Sings the Blues

In 2002, Paley moved to Trivandrum, India, where her husband had taken a job. While she was visiting New York City on business concerning her third comic strip, The Hots, her husband terminated their marriage. Unable to return to either Trivandrum or San Francisco, she moved to Brooklyn, New York. Her personal crisis caused her to see more deeply into the Ramayana, the Indian epic, which she had encountered in India, and motivated her to produce a short animation which combines an episode from the Ramayana with a torch song recorded in 1929 by Annette Hanshaw, "Mean To Me".[24] Paley later added episodes and other material to the work, which is now called Sita Sings the Blues. Many of the episodes appeared in animation festivals. She expanded it into a feature-length treatment of the Ramayana focused on Rama's wife, Sita, using a variety of animation styles and techniques.

The finished work premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 11, 2008[25][26] and had its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25, 2008.[18] The film was screened at more than 150 film festivals globally[27] and was broadcast on PBS in New York City.[28] For her work on Sita Sings the Blues, Paley was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award[29] and garnered more than 35 international awards,[27] including the top award at Annecy in 2008.[30] The New York Times review of Sita described it as "ambitious and visually loaded" and the film was named a NYT Critic's Pick.[31]


Seder-Masochism edit

Main article: Seder-Masochism
 
The musical number "This Land Is Mine" from Seder-Masochism

In 2011 she began work on a project called Seder-Masochism,[7] an animated film about The Exodus, showing the rise of patriarchy and the fall of goddess worship. Early support was obtained for the project through a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.[32] In June 2018, after she had worked sporadically on the film for six years, Seder-Masochism premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France.[33][34][35] Reviewers compared Paley's style to Monty Python, and praised the film's irreverent humor.[36][37] In Poland, the film was screened at the ANIMATOR film festival where it was chosen by the audience as the festival's best feature-length animated film.[38]

Prior to the theatrical release of the film, Paley uploaded selected scenes for viewing on YouTube and Vimeo. The scene "This Land Is Mine" was first posted in 2012, and by 2014 had received 10 million views combined across the two platforms.[39]

Free culture activism edit

Because of obstacles in clearing the rights to Hanshaw's recordings for the Sita Sings the Blues, Paley took active part in the free culture movement.[28][40]

Since 2009 she is an artist-in-residence at the non-profit organization QuestionCopyright.org,[27] which includes running the projects "Minute Memes" and the "Sita Distribution Project".[41] "Minute Memes"[42] is a series of short ("one-minute") video "memes" made by Paley about copyright restrictions and artistic freedom. She wrote and performed the song "Copying Isn't Theft" meant to be freely remixed by other people,[43] with the animated clip issued as Minute Meme #1.[44] Subtitles for the song were created in 10 other languages and performances in Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, and Spanish were published.[45]

Subsequent animations in this series are "All Creative Work Is Derivative",[46] EFF Tribute[47] and "Credit is Due: The Attribution Song".[48] She also wrote "Understanding Free Content", an illustrated guide to the idea of free content.[49]

In 2010 she started a new comic strip Mimi & Eunice, highlighting intellectual property problems and paradoxes.[2]

She has published much of her work, including Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, and all original work in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft licence.[50] The website for Sita Sings the Blues includes a wiki where its fans contributed translated subtitles for the DVD of the film.[51]

Paley won a Public Knowledge IP3 award in 2010 "for her work in intellectual property".[52]

Views on gender edit

Paley describes herself as gender critical and writes often about the topic on her blog and social media.[53][54] A showing of Seder-Masochism in 2019 was protested by trans rights activists in Champaign, Illinois due to her online comments.[55] She was a signatory to an open letter published by The Sunday Times defending J. K. Rowling against criticism for transphobia.[56][57] In an interview with Feminist Current, she stated that when referencing transgender people, she does not necessarily use the pronouns that the person uses. She said, "If a man uses 'she' pronouns... I'm adamant that he is free to identify as he wants. But we're also all free to identify things how we perceive them."[58] Paley is a frequent contributor to a gender critical podcast, "Heterodorx".[59]

Personal life edit

Though of Jewish ancestry, Paley is an atheist as was her father.[27][60]

Paley identifies as childfree.[60]

In 2011, Paley began making art quilts. The first public exhibition of her quilts was held in June 2013 in central Illinois.[61]

Works edit

 
Still image from the feature film Sita Sings the Blues

Comics and comic strips edit

Filmography edit

Features

Shorts

  • Cancer (1998. Drawing directly on film. 2 minutes. Color. 35mm.)
  • Luv Is... (1998. Clay animation. 3.5 minutes. Beta SP / Super-8. Color.)
  • I (heart) My Cat (1998. Clay animation. 3 minutes. 16mm. Color.)
  • Pandorama (2000. Drawing directly on film. 3 minutes. color. 15perf/70mm - also known as "IMAX")
  • Fetch![63] (2001. 2-D computer animation. 4.5 minutes. 35mm. Color.)
  • Thank You for Not Breeding[64] (2002. Documentary. 36 minutes. Video. Color.)
  • The Stork[65] (2002. 2-D computer animation (Flash/Photoshop/Final Cut Pro). 3 minutes. Video. Color.)
  • Goddess of Fertility (2002. 2-D digital animation. 2 minutes. Clay animated on a glass. Color. 35mm.)
  • Fertco (2002. 2-D digital animation. 3 minutes. Color. Video.)
  • The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer[66] (2002. 2-D digital animation. 4.5 minutes. Color. Dialog. Video.)
  • On Children, a segment in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2015. 2-D digital animation. Color.)[67]
 
"Copying is not theft!" badge by Paley
'Copying is Not Theft' by Paley

Music videos

  • Connie Champagne - "Copying Is Not Theft" (2009) Animation, lyrics, and tune by Paley.[68][45][69]
  • Todd Michaelsen "All Creative Work Is Derivative" (2010) Using Michaelsen's "Sita's String Theory" and Paley's animations.[70][71]
  • Evanescent - "Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)" (2011) Animation, lyrics, and tune by Paley.[72][73]
  • Intuitive Gym - Her Story. Using Paley's animations.
  • Gala - "Parallel Lines" (2021) Animation by Paley.[74]
  • Milton Estes and His Musical Millers - "When the Fire Comes Down" (2022) Animation from Apocalypse Animated

Other works edit

  • Quilts
  • "Apocalypse Animated" and lenticular cards of its animations.[75]
  • "Agents of H.A.G." Comic Book
  • GENDER WARS Cards[76]
  • "Hundred Dollar Drawings", with instructions limited to two words or less.[77]
  • MysticSymbolic[78]

Media appearances and talks edit

  • The Tom and Doug Show - Paley has been a regular guest on the nationally syndicated Tom and Doug radio show, a weekly comedy music show on the Pacifica Radio Network.[79] She "showed" her film The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer on show 304, discussed her "Christmas Resistance movement" on show 336, discussed Tom and Doug's songs "Gangsta Knitter" and "Sooner or Later" on show 232, discussed Sita Sings the Blues on show 361, and Tom and Doug rewrote her song "Copying is Not Theft" and played it for her on show 377.[80]
  • Talk "Copyright is Brain Damage" at TEDxMaastricht[81]

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External links edit

 
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  • Nina Paley at IMDb
  • Zahorsky, Ingmar (November 30, 2006). . Amateur Illustrator. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007.

December 02, 2023
nina, paley, nina, carolyn, paley, born, 1968, american, cartoonist, animator, free, culture, activist, artist, often, writer, comic, strips, nina, adventures, fluff, after, which, worked, primarily, animation, perhaps, best, known, creating, 2008, animated, f. Nina Carolyn Paley 1 born May 3 1968 is an American cartoonist animator and free culture activist She was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips Nina s Adventures and Fluff after which she worked primarily in animation 2 She is perhaps best known for creating the 2008 animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues based on the Ramayana with parallels to her personal life In 2018 she completed her second animated feature Seder Masochism a retelling of the Book of Exodus as patriarchy emerging from goddess worship Nina PaleyPaley in 2009BornNina Carolyn Paley 1968 05 03 May 3 1968 age 55 Urbana Illinois U S Area s Writer cartoonist animatorNotable worksSita Sings the Blues Seder Masochismhttps blog ninapaley comPaley distributes much of her work including Nina s Adventures Fluff and all the original work in Sita Sings The Blues under a copyleft license Since January 2021 Paley runs the podcast Heterodorx with Corinna Cohn 3 Contents 1 Early life 2 Nina s Adventures and other work 2 1 Apocalypse Animated 3 Feature films 3 1 Sita Sings the Blues 3 2 Seder Masochism 4 Free culture activism 5 Views on gender 6 Personal life 7 Works 7 1 Comics and comic strips 7 2 Filmography 7 3 Other works 7 4 Media appearances and talks 8 References 9 External linksEarly life editPaley was born in Urbana Illinois 4 the daughter of Jean Passovoy and Hiram Paley 5 Her family was Jewish 6 7 Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois and was mayor of Urbana for a term in the early 1970s 8 She attended local elementary and high schools graduating from University High School in 1986 9 She illustrated a History of the North Pole comic in collaboration with University High School history teacher Chris Butler and attended the University of Illinois studying art for two years before dropping out 10 While in college her comic Joyride ran in The Daily Illini newspaper 9 Nina s Adventures and other work edit nbsp The Hots stripIn 1988 Paley moved to Santa Cruz California and began to write and draw the strip Nina s Adventures In 1991 she illustrated The Santa Cruz Haggadah 11 and moved to San Francisco In 2002 she wrote and directed Fetch a humorous short cartoon feature based on a variety of optical illusions which has enjoyed popularity ever since 12 13 Beginning in 2002 Paley focused her work on the controversial subject of population growth The most notable entry she produced on this subject was The Stork in which the natural environment is bombed to destruction by storks dropping bundled babies The film is a compact expression of the conflict between the increasing human population and the ecosystem in which it must live The 3 minute film was a considerable success at festivals and resulted in an invitation to the Sundance Film Festival 13 During this period of this time Paley also contributed several comic strips for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement of which she is a member and occasional spokesperson 14 Her work for the group still remains on their official website 15 In 2012 Paley posted an animation to Vimeo titled This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history it was named a Staff Pick 16 Between projects Paley has worked as a freelance director at Duck Studios in Los Angeles 17 She has also taught in the Design and Technology section of Parsons part of The New School 18 Apocalypse Animated edit nbsp An animation depicting the Tree of life in Revelation 22 14 part of the project Apocalypse Animated nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apocalypse Animated In February 2022 Paley completed her project Apocalypse Animated creating nearly 300 animated loops for the Book of Revelation 19 20 Paley also created lenticular cards of 10 selected animations 21 22 Paley released Ultra HD 3840 x 2160 pixel uncompressed Apple ProRes videos of almost 12 minutes of animation under a CC BY SA license and encouraged remixing of the material proposing an audio reading of the Book of Revelation and mixing it with the animation 23 Feature films editAs of 2018 Paley has created two animated feature films Sita Sings the Blues edit Main article Sita Sings the Blues In 2002 Paley moved to Trivandrum India where her husband had taken a job While she was visiting New York City on business concerning her third comic strip The Hots her husband terminated their marriage Unable to return to either Trivandrum or San Francisco she moved to Brooklyn New York Her personal crisis caused her to see more deeply into the Ramayana the Indian epic which she had encountered in India and motivated her to produce a short animation which combines an episode from the Ramayana with a torch song recorded in 1929 by Annette Hanshaw Mean To Me 24 Paley later added episodes and other material to the work which is now called Sita Sings the Blues Many of the episodes appeared in animation festivals She expanded it into a feature length treatment of the Ramayana focused on Rama s wife Sita using a variety of animation styles and techniques The finished work premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 11 2008 25 26 and had its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25 2008 18 The film was screened at more than 150 film festivals globally 27 and was broadcast on PBS in New York City 28 For her work on Sita Sings the Blues Paley was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award 29 and garnered more than 35 international awards 27 including the top award at Annecy in 2008 30 The New York Times review of Sita described it as ambitious and visually loaded and the film was named a NYT Critic s Pick 31 Seder Masochism edit Main article Seder Masochism nbsp The musical number This Land Is Mine from Seder MasochismIn 2011 she began work on a project called Seder Masochism 7 an animated film about The Exodus showing the rise of patriarchy and the fall of goddess worship Early support was obtained for the project through a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter 32 In June 2018 after she had worked sporadically on the film for six years Seder Masochism premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France 33 34 35 Reviewers compared Paley s style to Monty Python and praised the film s irreverent humor 36 37 In Poland the film was screened at the ANIMATOR film festival where it was chosen by the audience as the festival s best feature length animated film 38 Prior to the theatrical release of the film Paley uploaded selected scenes for viewing on YouTube and Vimeo The scene This Land Is Mine was first posted in 2012 and by 2014 had received 10 million views combined across the two platforms 39 Free culture activism editBecause of obstacles in clearing the rights to Hanshaw s recordings for the Sita Sings the Blues Paley took active part in the free culture movement 28 40 Since 2009 she is an artist in residence at the non profit organization QuestionCopyright org 27 which includes running the projects Minute Memes and the Sita Distribution Project 41 Minute Memes 42 is a series of short one minute video memes made by Paley about copyright restrictions and artistic freedom She wrote and performed the song Copying Isn t Theft meant to be freely remixed by other people 43 with the animated clip issued as Minute Meme 1 44 Subtitles for the song were created in 10 other languages and performances in Brazilian Portuguese French Italian and Spanish were published 45 Subsequent animations in this series are All Creative Work Is Derivative 46 EFF Tribute 47 and Credit is Due The Attribution Song 48 She also wrote Understanding Free Content an illustrated guide to the idea of free content 49 In 2010 she started a new comic strip Mimi amp Eunice highlighting intellectual property problems and paradoxes 2 She has published much of her work including Nina s Adventures Fluff and all original work in Sita Sings The Blues under a copyleft licence 50 The website for Sita Sings the Blues includes a wiki where its fans contributed translated subtitles for the DVD of the film 51 Paley won a Public Knowledge IP3 award in 2010 for her work in intellectual property 52 Views on gender editPaley describes herself as gender critical and writes often about the topic on her blog and social media 53 54 A showing of Seder Masochism in 2019 was protested by trans rights activists in Champaign Illinois due to her online comments 55 She was a signatory to an open letter published by The Sunday Times defending J K Rowling against criticism for transphobia 56 57 In an interview with Feminist Current she stated that when referencing transgender people she does not necessarily use the pronouns that the person uses She said If a man uses she pronouns I m adamant that he is free to identify as he wants But we re also all free to identify things how we perceive them 58 Paley is a frequent contributor to a gender critical podcast Heterodorx 59 Personal life editThough of Jewish ancestry Paley is an atheist as was her father 27 60 Paley identifies as childfree 60 In 2011 Paley began making art quilts The first public exhibition of her quilts was held in June 2013 in central Illinois 61 Works edit nbsp Still image from the feature film Sita Sings the BluesComics and comic strips edit Casey Jones for Grateful Dead Comix 1991 62 Nina s Adventures Fluff The Hots Mimi amp EuniceFilmography edit Features Sita Sings the Blues 82 min 2003 2008 2 D digital animation Color Seder Masochism 2018 Shorts Cancer 1998 Drawing directly on film 2 minutes Color 35mm Luv Is 1998 Clay animation 3 5 minutes Beta SP Super 8 Color I heart My Cat 1998 Clay animation 3 minutes 16mm Color Pandorama 2000 Drawing directly on film 3 minutes color 15perf 70mm also known as IMAX Fetch 63 2001 2 D computer animation 4 5 minutes 35mm Color Thank You for Not Breeding 64 2002 Documentary 36 minutes Video Color The Stork 65 2002 2 D computer animation Flash Photoshop Final Cut Pro 3 minutes Video Color Goddess of Fertility 2002 2 D digital animation 2 minutes Clay animated on a glass Color 35mm Fertco 2002 2 D digital animation 3 minutes Color Video The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer 66 2002 2 D digital animation 4 5 minutes Color Dialog Video On Children a segment in Kahlil Gibran s The Prophet 2015 2 D digital animation Color 67 nbsp Copying is not theft badge by Paley source source source source source source track Copying is Not Theft by PaleyMusic videos Connie Champagne Copying Is Not Theft 2009 Animation lyrics and tune by Paley 68 45 69 Todd Michaelsen All Creative Work Is Derivative 2010 Using Michaelsen s Sita s String Theory and Paley s animations 70 71 Evanescent Credit Is Due The Attribution Song 2011 Animation lyrics and tune by Paley 72 73 Intuitive Gym Her Story Using Paley s animations Gala Parallel Lines 2021 Animation by Paley 74 Milton Estes and His Musical Millers When the Fire Comes Down 2022 Animation from Apocalypse AnimatedOther works edit Quilts Apocalypse Animated and lenticular cards of its animations 75 Agents of H A G Comic Book GENDER WARS Cards 76 Hundred Dollar Drawings with instructions limited to two words or less 77 MysticSymbolic 78 Media appearances and talks edit The Tom and Doug Show Paley has been a regular guest on the nationally syndicated Tom and Doug radio show a weekly comedy music show on the Pacifica Radio Network 79 She showed her film The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer on show 304 discussed her Christmas Resistance movement on show 336 discussed Tom and Doug s songs Gangsta Knitter and Sooner or Later on show 232 discussed Sita Sings the Blues on show 361 and Tom and Doug rewrote her song Copying is Not Theft and played it for her on show 377 80 Talk Copyright is Brain Damage at TEDxMaastricht 81 References edit PechaKuchaNightCU March 29 2016 Nina Paley My Car Free Life 0 23 Archived from the original on December 14 2021 Retrieved August 29 2020 via YouTube a b Nina Paley Lambiek Comiclopedia October 11 2017 Retrieved August 6 2018 Heterodorx rss feed anchor fm Nina Paley www imdb com 2018 Retrieved August 6 2018 Obituaries Hiram Paley www heathandvaughn com January 2012 Archived from the original on August 7 2018 Retrieved August 6 2018 Paley Nina September 8 2011 Seder Masochism Phase I www kickstarter com Retrieved August 6 2018 a b Merli Melissa October 21 2012 Studio Visit Nina Paley The News Gazette Champaign IL Retrieved August 6 2018 Wade Patrick January 10 2012 Life Remembered Hiram Paley was a leading progressive for Urbana The News Gazette Champaign IL Retrieved August 6 2018 a b Merli Melissa May 18 2008 First movie a full time job for Uni High grad illustrator The News Gazette Champaign IL Retrieved August 2 2018 Alumnuts ninapaley com 24 October 2013 Roekard Karen G R 1991 The Santa Cruz Haggadah a Passover Haggadah coloring book and journal for the evolving consciousness illustrations by Nina Paley private ed Capitola CA Hineni Consciousness Press ISBN 9780962891380 OCLC 52729227 Fetch 2002 IMDb com 2018 Retrieved August 7 2018 a b An Animated Discussion Speaking of the Future with Nina Paley www speculist com October 16 2003 Retrieved August 7 2018 Nina Paley and Mike Treder bloggingheads tv The Nonzero Foundation September 11 2010 Retrieved August 13 2018 VHEMT related cartoons vhemt org Voluntary Human Extinction Movement Retrieved August 13 2018 Paley Nina October 1 2012 This Land is Mine vimeo com Retrieved August 13 2018 Tiny Inventions Takes to DUCK Studios Animation Insider September 29 2010 Archived from the original on October 25 2010 Retrieved August 13 2018 a b Discovery Sita Sings the Blues www tribecafilm com Tribeca Film Festival April 2008 Retrieved August 14 2018 Fogel Karl February 26 2022 It is done Nina Paley s Apocalypse Animated Question Copyright Retrieved April 15 2022 Apocalypse Animated apocalypseanimated com n d Retrieved July 8 2022 Category Apocalypse ninapaley com ApocalypseAnimated Lenticular Cards Crowdfunder Video Nina Paley on YouTube 31 January 2023 Have At It ninapaley com 25 February 2022 Featured artist Nina Paley Sita Sings the Blues www flashgoddess com October 2005 Retrieved August 14 2018 Sita Sings the Blues 2008 Release Info www imdb com October 2 2010 Retrieved August 14 2018 Ebert Roger 2009 Sita Sings the Blues Ebertfest media illinois edu Roger Ebert s Film Festival Retrieved August 14 2018 a b c d Merli Melissa August 10 2014 Paley s This Land Is Mine a viral hit The News Gazette Champaign Illinois Retrieved August 11 2018 a b Merli Melissa April 20 2009 Urbana native s film part of her push for free culture The News Gazette Champaign IL Retrieved August 11 2018 Moody Annemarie December 2 2008 Sita Sings Blues Creator Nominated For Indie Spirit Award Animation World Network Retrieved May 8 2018 Ramanathan Lavanya September 25 2008 An Ancient Tale Newly Animated The Washington Post Retrieved August 11 2018 Scott A O December 24 2009 Legendary Breakups Good Animated Women Done Wrong in India The New York Times Retrieved August 7 2018 Paley Nina September 8 2011 Seder Masochism Phase I www kickstarter com Retrieved August 18 2018 Amid Amidi April 23 2018 Annecy 2018 23 Animated Feature Films In Official Selection Cartoon Brew Retrieved August 19 2018 Seder Masochism 2018 Release Info www imdb com June 2018 Retrieved August 14 2018 Croll Ben June 10 2018 Annency Seder Masochism Director Nina Paley I Have No Idea How This Movie Will Go Into the World variety com Retrieved August 14 2018 Luis Martinez June 14 2018 El patriarcado desacralizado y otros milagros de la animacion radical en Annecy El Mundo in Spanish Retrieved August 19 2018 Matthieu Ruard June 2018 Annecy 2018 Wall Seder Masochism Courte Focale in French Retrieved August 15 2018 Here Are the Winners ANIMATOR festival July 12 2018 Retrieved August 15 2018 Roz Warren August 13 2014 How Nina Paley Made This Land Is Mine Viral The Schmooze Retrieved August 15 2018 Bell Melissa April 6 2012 Online leaders look to create offline experiences The Washington Post Retrieved August 11 2018 About QuestionCopyright org QuestionCopyright org 2011 Retrieved August 19 2018 Minute Memes QuestionCopyright org November 25 2008 Retrieved August 19 2018 Copying Isn t Theft Your Versions QuestionCopyright org April 3 2009 Retrieved August 19 2018 Paley Nina December 14 2009 Copying Is Not Theft Minute Meme 1 QuestionCopyright org Retrieved August 19 2018 a b Copying Is Not Theft Minute Meme 1 questioncopyright org 15 December 2009 Paley Nina February 9 2010 All Creative Work Is Derivative Minute Meme 2 QuestionCopyright org Retrieved August 19 2018 Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 20 years with new animation from Nina Paley QuestionCopyright org July 10 2010 Retrieved August 19 2018 Paley Nina June 27 2011 Credit is Due The Attribution Song QuestionCopyright org Retrieved August 19 2018 Paley Nina April 2 2009 Understanding Free Content QuestionCopyright org Retrieved August 19 2018 Paley Nina November 2010 Frequently Asked Questions www sitasingstheblues com Retrieved August 19 2018 The whole struggle with our broken copyright system turned me into a Free Culture activist I m actually going to release all my old Nina s Adventures and Fluff comics under a Share Alike copyleft license too See its lists of subtitles Archived May 30 2009 at the Wayback Machine and screenings Archived December 22 2015 at the Wayback Machine Brodsky Art August 3 2010 Public Knowledge Presents Seventh IP3 Awards to Samuelson Crawford Geist and Paley www publicknowledge org Archived from the original on April 3 2012 Retrieved August 19 2018 TERFy Archives ninapaley com March 21 2023 Baron Reuben July 30 2018 Cartoon Controversies 10 Times Fans Were Wrong And 10 Times Creators Were Wrong Comic Book Resources Retrieved February 22 2021 Dey Jim May 7 2019 Furor over gender issues puts Urbana artist s film in crosshairs The News Gazette Retrieved September 27 2020 Hellen Nicholas September 27 2020 Literati rally to JK Rowling s defence in row over Cormoran Strike book The Sunday Times Retrieved September 27 2020 O Connor Roisin September 28 2020 JK Rowling Ian McEwan and Graham Linehan among literary figures to support author amid transphobia row The Independent Archived from the original on June 21 2022 Retrieved September 28 2020 Acosta Katherine M May 8 2019 Interview Nina Paley on Seder Masochism censorship and her fight for a free culture Feminist Current Retrieved August 9 2021 Heterodorx RSS Feed heterodorx com n d Retrieved July 8 2022 a b Dolle Pauline April 3 2018 Moses make over by animator Nina Paley will have you grooving nycreligion info A Journey Through NYC Religions Retrieved August 11 2018 Merli Melissa June 13 2013 Urbana artist Paley putting quilt art on display The News Gazette Champaign Illinois Retrieved August 11 2018 Drivin That Train ninapaley com 1 June 2014 DuckStudiosLA June 12 2008 DUCK Studios Nina Paley Fetch Archived from the original on December 14 2021 Retrieved September 19 2018 via YouTube Thank You For Not Breeding a short film by Nina Paley Vimeo Retrieved September 19 2018 anthropik July 15 2006 The Stork Archived from the original on December 14 2021 Retrieved September 19 2018 via YouTube anthropik July 15 2006 The Wit amp Wisdom of Cancer Archived from the original on December 14 2021 Retrieved September 19 2018 via YouTube Murphy Mekado August 5 2015 Bill Plympton Lends His Animation Skills to Kahlil Gibran s The Prophet The New York Times Retrieved August 7 2018 Nina Paley at the Internet Archive Copying Is Not Theft Official Version Question Copyright on YouTube 1 Apr 2010 ninapaley All Creative Work Is Derivative Minute Meme 2 questioncopyright org 10 February 2010 Nina Paley at the Internet Archive Nina Paley at the Internet Archive ninapaley Credit is Due The Attribution Song questioncopyright org 27 June 2011 Parallel Lines ninapaley com 15 February 2021 Category Apocalypse ninapaley com GENDER WARS Cards heterodorx com Hundred Dollar Drawings now 150 ninapaley com Category MysticSymbolic ninapaley com Doug Tom and Radio Show www tomanddoug com Retrieved September 19 2018 AudioPort Org audioport org Retrieved September 19 2018 Copyright is Brain Damage Nina Paley TEDxMaastricht youtube com External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nina Paley nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Nina Paley Official website nbsp Nina Paley at IMDb Zahorsky Ingmar November 30 2006 Interview with Nina Paley Amateur Illustrator Archived from the original on February 8 2007 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nina Paley amp oldid 1183893187, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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