SXSW OVERLOAD: WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN… [FIELD REPORT]
It’s Grumpy Cat’s world, we just live in it. (Photo: Anna Hanks) We Promise That We Aren’t Making This Stuff Up: A Field Report on SXSW Interactive and Film from an Embedded...
Category: Texas
The Time Wayne Coyne and I Called Latvia, Woke Up My Friend, and Gave the Latvian Tabloids Some Copy!
When I heard the Flaming Lips were playing a SXSW show at Auditorium Shores, I couldn’t help think about the last time that the Flaming Lips played a large show in Austin.
Back in 2010, I was working on a column about people with disabilities at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I ran across Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips in the festival’s media area. He was waiting for an interview with MTV, I was trying to stay in the shade so I didn’t melt.
Scenes From the SPIN Party, SXSW 2012
While we’re thinking about the upcoming SXSW, it’s hard not to think about last year’s party. Here’s a couple of picture from last year’s event! Santigold Evil Eyes, after her band’s set!
The Buck Stops In Whitehouse, Texas…
Earlier this month there was an unusual “deer attacks man” encounter in the East Texas hamlet of Whitehouse,Texas. The incident described below is not a Saturday Night Live skit nor a report from one of the...
NAZI GOLD Played Red 7 on a Monday Night in Austin, Texas
For those of you who only go to shows in Austin during SXSW, this is a glimpse of what the “Austin music scene” is like on a Monday in November.
Old Enough to Play the Austin City Limits Music Festival…But Not Always Old Enough To Vote
Of all the artists playing the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival, Abby Torres, 16 and Carla Pantoja 16, may be the only performers who managed to squeeze in a marching band competition that October weekend.
Torres and Pantoja are members of the Lanier High School band who also study music via Anthropos Arts, an Austin-based non-profit providing music lessons to dedicated young performers from at risk backgrounds. The project’s supporters include musician Esperanza Spalding, who popped by the Anthropos booth at ACL to pose for pictures after her Friday afternoon show.
SXSW Eco Coverage: “Green is Good”
The second year of the SXSW Eco conference gathered people from all over the world to discuss the myriad ecological and energy problems facing our world. Panels spanned topics as diverse as sustainable food, green design and ecologically responsible fishery management.
Despite the disparate nature of these topics, one idea that emerged at panel after panel was the concept that certain things cost us far more than what we actually pay for them, otherwise known as Externalized Costs. [Read more…]
The City of Austin has a Free Microchip and Tag Offer For Your Pets
There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to teach your furry family members how to clearly enunciate their own street address and phone number. Even if you do manage to teach your doggie your digits,...
Time Travel Weekend Party
In many ways this past weekend in Austin has felt like a stop on the time travel train. I’m convinced that sometime in the future, time travel is a functional thing, much the way...
Live life now — don’t waste it taking pictures
You’ve heard the one about how a picture says a thousand words? This week’s $1 billion acquisition of the mobile phone picture-sharing service Instagram by social media giant Facebook says even more. It tells...
