SXSW is a 3-part festival, with Interactive going the first 5 days, Music the last 5, and Film stretched through the full festival.
In regular life, you just don’t get this kind of variety in a 10-day stretch. I love that when I come to South By Southwest (SXSW), I’m not here for work and with a platinum pass, I am entirely free to sample any offerings that catch my eye. With so many overlapping sessions, I couldn’t make them all, and some didn’t really lend themselves to interesting photos, but what rich pickings!
Here’s a taste of what made my short list this week, mainly from the Interactive part of the festival. I’ll talk about Film and Music a bit later.
~Robot Petting Zoo (Don’t Feed the Animals!)
~Books Are The New Vinyl
~Debunking the Disruption Innovation Myth
~When Your Devices Decide to Touch You Back
~Story Structure Secrets
~Is The Internet Disappointed In Us?
~The Invisible Salary: Why Money Doesn’t Matter
~Wearable Technologies 3 & Will Wearables Bring New Purpose to Fashion?
~Made in Brooklyn: A Craft Foods Revolution
~Failure As A Creative Catalyst
~Dramatic Reading by Programmers of Bug Reports (with Puppets)
~Jedi Mind Tricks For Entrepreneurs
~Can Sports Help End A Culture of Violence
~You Can’t Sit With Us: Craft Beer Subculture
~Minimal Viable Pub: How to Open A Pub on $5K
~Cuddly Drones
~The Future Is Short-Form: Storytelling For Today
~Making Art While Entertaining the Internet
~How To Rob A Bank: The Vulnerablilities of New Money
~ and finally one unofficial 6th Street session that almost pulled me in – less for the title than the first instruction: “Reconsider”
March 22nd, 2015 at 1:31 am
Love the titles! I especially laughed at ‘How to twerk, step 1’! And of course, the robot petting zoo for the animal lover in us all. 🙂
April 2nd, 2015 at 12:42 am
SXSW is wonderfully horrible all at the same time! Looking forward to reading more of your Austin escapes.
April 2nd, 2015 at 12:43 am
Make that Austin escapades…
April 2nd, 2015 at 8:20 pm
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April 5th, 2015 at 11:37 pm
Thanks for the challenge, Eileen On! I commit to starting on this long weekend, and look forward to checking out other bloggers involved.