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SXSW 2008: Hot Freaks Party and Dr. Dog photos

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Music, pics, sxsw 2008 | 4 Comments »

As promised in my day three recap, here are the photos for the Hot Freaks day show at the Mohawk.  This set also has pics from day four's Dr. Dog show.  Sorry for the delay, but trying to manage photos ...

SXSW 2008: Day Four Recap (finale)

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | 4 Comments »

This is the final day of SXSW music and I am both sad and ready to see it go.  This year's event flew by so fast it will take some time to process all the new music that I have ...

SXSW 2008: Day Three Recap (serendipity)

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | No Comments »

We got up early this morning, not to catch a day show but to snag the complementary breakfast.  Nothing like a steamer tray of eggs, sausages, bacon and biscuits to start the day off right.  After a brief post-breakfast nap ...

SXSW 2008 – Day Two Recap

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | No Comments »

Today was the day for the much anticipated NPR day show lineup: The Shout Out Louds, Jens Lekman, AA Bondy, Yeasayer, Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend.  The show was at the Parish located in the heart of 6th Street in ...

SXSW 2008: Connection issues…

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | 2 Comments »

We are staying at an Embassy Suites and the internet connection is dog slow.  Uploading the photos was a chore of unbelievable torture.  Even after having the Flickr uploader resize to 1600px the 27 remaining photos took almost an hour.  ...

SXSW 2008: Day One Recap

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | No Comments »

Well, here we are again sitting at the hotel room after a long first day of SXSW.  We arrived in Austin in record time and looped around the convention center trying to find parking.  Thanks to Dani's hidden parking tip ...

SXSW 2008: Day One (in prep)

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Music, sxsw 2008 | No Comments »

For the third year in a row I am kicking off the SXSW 2008 daily recaps. At the moment of writing this paragraph its not really a recap yet since we are still in Dallas getting ready for our jaunt ...

SXSW 2008 is almost here!

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | 6 Comments »

This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...