{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Nina Paley - Illustrator and Animator - Shorts to Sita Sings the Blues","description":"Nina Paley&amp;nbsp;started out as a comic strip artist, including for&amp;nbsp;Fluff&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly&amp;nbsp;Nina's Adventures.In 1998, she began making independent animated festival&amp;nbsp;films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short,&amp;nbsp;The Stork.In 2002,&amp;nbsp;Nina&amp;nbsp;followed her then-husband to&amp;nbsp;Trivandrum, India, where she read her first&amp;nbsp;Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film,&amp;nbsp;Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend&amp;nbsp;Annette Hanshaw.","author_name":"Spoiler Alert Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/spoileralertradio.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/1594769\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/3272706"}