Things are getting heavy now. The street noise is ratcheting up, it’s getting harder to walk a straight line sober. The audio pieces I promised are not really happening, although I’ve picked up a lot of sounds. It is just going to wait until next week and it will be one long piece, because the […]
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DAY 6: New Friends and Old Habits
If I were not able to take this whole event day-by-day and then from there hour by hour, I would be pissed off all of the time. This is definitely a downfall of this festival: scheduling. There is simply too much happening here in a seemingly careless order. On top of it all, add the […]
The official end of INTERACTIVE; the official opening of MUSIC marked the day. In general, appearances are deceiving; there will continue to be meet ups, trade show, panels, even a keynote from Bruce Springsteen remain on the Interactive calendar. And there has been music here and there all week. To ring out the Conference, Stubb’s […]
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DAY 4: Buffering Al Gore
Starting the day at a decent hour, I managed to pull off yesterday’s blog and make it to a non-profit meet up within the heart of Trade Show. I found myself self-conscious explaining that my organization is on hiatus; the Board didn’t work out. People were hasty to move on to a better networking opportunity […]
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DAY 3: STORIES AND PIZZA
Routines are forming, parking spots emerging, bearings rolling, names calling, dropping, stopping people in their tracks: today Al Gore is going to interview Sean Parker, founder of Napster. How is that possible? I just thought SXSW was basically a music festival. But actually, it’s all things happening. No festival manages to juxtapose corporate with indie […]