Went to SXSW, met teh interwebs
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 9:02AM Silly me, I thought SXSW was a film and music festival. I went there to talk about DV Rebel filmmaking, but I didn't meet more than a handful of traditional filmmakers. I did, however, meet the internet.
I loves me my podcasts, so it was way cool to meet folks like Veronica Belmont and Joanne Colan, Kent Nichols of Ask a Ninja and Erik Beck of Indie Mogul. I gave a shout out to my Montreal homies Rudy Jahchan and Casey McKinnon of Galacticast who have been putting The Guide to great use on their show, on and off camera. And it is always good to chill with Alex Lindsay of This Week in Everything.
I did feel a bit out of place though (Stu to Joanne Colan over ice cream: "So, what do you do?"). But web celebs are mellow and seem to have a bemused respect for traditional media, if only for its reliance on this strange thing called "money." They welcomed me into their weird world with Twitter and free booze (one is often used to locate the other).
Scott Kirsner, the most excellent moderator of the panel, posted notes on his blog. I too got great feeback from attendees and want to thank all who overcame hangovers and daylight savings time to be there. Now it's back to reality for me, and back to my iPhone podcasting tab for all my new friends.
Reader Comments (6)
Do you just subscribe to twitters in your regular rss reader? Or, is there a better way that I'm not hip to?
Disclaimer: I'm only in it for the free booze :P
Stu was eating a Katz's deli ice cream sundae, I was simply pointing fingers at it and oohing and aahing, strictly adhering to my no ice cream at 2am rule (1:45am and 2:30am are fine...) while sipping tea. I confess to imdb'ing you since then Stu so, the whole who are you thing was absolutely mutual :)
You met Veronica Belmont? Wow. Between this and you having worked at ILM there are now officially two reasons to envy you! :-)
The funny thing is I was there for the internet and all I wanted to do was go to film events. tragically I was mid flight during your panel otherwise I'd of been there for sure. I was however impressed by the internet'z ability to throw parties that went till 5 am though.
still...your panel and the indy mogul guys were all I wanted to see and I missed both. sigh...till next time.
What shadowmaker said :)
Also, I was following some of the SXSW coverage and was highly amused by the importance that Twitter seemed to have for....everything.
I can't say I know a single person that actually uses it outside of a very small internet crazy circle.
But then again, the same people probably also never heard of AE, Shake and whatnot. :)
I guess I should have twittered this now instead of commenting?
Ahh, I'm bummed I didn't get to meet you - I was in the interwebs crowd :P