Every Story Contains the World.
And now it’s over, I’ve procrastinated on my final blog, the audio piece is postponed until sometime this week and it might just be rolled in to a single video project. Its all iPhone 4S capture. Yeah, so today is Monday and yesterday closed out the festival softly. Saturday night was truly a bacchanal of …
Continue reading “DAYS 9 & 10: Softball Reigns Out and E. Badu Carries Through”
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 …
Continue reading “DAY 7: Springsteen Schools Us and The Music Gets Louder”
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 …
Continue reading “DAY 5: Jack Black Ruins a Life and Buddha Dig Social Networking”
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 …
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 …
There are many facets to South by Southwest Festival. The “convergence” is the mission and the miracle of it all. From all over the world, people crowd Austin Convention Center from all sorts of disciplines and levels of interest: gamers and tech-heads see the newest computers, graphics systems, gaming concepts, phones, and what all; entrepreneurs …
Continue reading “Day 2: Rain, Dance Floors and Distractions”
Upon receipt of the festival guides, after curving through the maze of registrants looking for their badge, and having perused three volumes of programming (Interactive, Film, and Music) detailed in paperback books akin to college course catalogues – however with a whole lot of advertisements from major corporate sponsors – my head began to spin …
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