Sunday, April 24, 2005
the perils of fame on a weekend
UPDATE: Best way to get the movies right now is to download 'em from SepiaMutiny.com They're all available as bit torrents.Sita Sings the Blues enjoyed a lot of new attention last week when Turbanhead.com posted a lovely write-up and link to "Hanuman Finds Sita." This was followed by links in BoingBoing.com and the very cool SepiaMutiny.com. The resulting hits and downloads shut down my site for a while, and when it came back, my host started charging me gobs extra for the additional bandwith, prompting me to move my "Sita" files here. But today, that site stopped working, and I probably won't know why, or get it fixed, until Monday or Tuesday. All the files except "Hanuman" are still here, if you want to see them in the mean time - I'm being charged extra anyway. Which reminds me, some kind souls have emailed to ask if they can send paypal donations. Yes!
ANOTHER UPDATE: this WAS a paypal button, but it kept going to a "paypal technical difficulties" page. So if you want to donate, go to paypal.com and send $ to my account, nee-nah at nee-nah-pay-lee dot com (de-phoneticise it, of course).
I've been thoroughly enjoying the responses to "Sita" I've seen online, even the pissy one posted here. The SepiaMutiny comments include this gem from "simp," which sums up the whole project better than I could: "A beautifully nuanced act of heartfelt cultural cannibalism and witty postmodern regurgutation." Also, while self-indulgently tracking comments in various blogs, I came across some references to Sanjay Patel, whose beautiful work I'd never seen before. I'm a new fan!
Comments:
Sniff... the little old neighborhood blog doesn't get any credit. That lovely write-up was from me (though turbanhead did add some great screenshots)!
I guess this also means that we are responsible for your "excess bandwidth" bill.
Dang Andy, you're right! Turbanhead didn't post a link to dailyheights. So...I owe it all to you. Thanks! I'll send you the bill.
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