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Re: SXSW RIP

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Post by waterlesscloud »

hindsightbias wrote: post #29

Austinites figured this out 10 years ago. Really, what is it about a "Music Festival" where a band gets 30 minutes of stage time (if they're lucky)?

It was never about a long, entertaining performance. In Ye Olden Dayes, it was about seeing as many up and coming bands as possible in a few days time. Exposing bands to audiences and audiences to bands.

I don't know if that's even needed now in the age of youtube.

If it is of any value still, it needs to be as well-curated as it was back when. It doesn't seem to be any more.

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Post by waterlesscloud »

smtddr wrote: post #38
beedogs wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the hell? That's what it started out as. Music is still by far the biggest draw to SXSW.

fwiw, I was thinking the same thing. I never heard of sxsw outside of tech.

A decade or two ago, if you were a band playing the bar circuit, SXSW was something you aspired to. It was a big deal for a long while.

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Post by TylerE »

ghshephard wrote: post #23

This comment caught my attention: "I won't be coming back. I'd have had better luck by just looking at the schedule and punching names into YouTube, then waiting for those bands to come to SF." I wonder what the odds are we'll see within 10 years Occulus like VR environments that can capture the concert experience, reducing somewhat the need to track down bands in crazy canceling venues like this if all you are inter…

Won't happen. No amount of VR wizardry will ever replace massive arrays of 12" woofers driven by vacuum tubes.

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Post by [deleted] »

TylerE wrote: post #43
ghshephard wrote: post #23

This comment caught my attention: "I won't be coming back. I'd have had better luck by just looking at the schedule and punching names into YouTube, then waiting for those bands to come to SF." I wonder what the odds are we'll see within 10 years Occulus like VR environments that can capture the concert experience, reducing somewhat the need to track down bands in crazy canceling venues like this if all you are inter…

Won't happen. No amount of VR wizardry will ever replace massive arrays of 12" woofers driven by vacuum tubes.

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Post by frou_dh »

stefan_kendall3 wrote: post #44
Windwaker wrote: post #2

I can't read this site for more than 10 seconds before my eyes start to bleed.

Same. It really hurts my eyes.

If it's any consolation, I'd like to present you both with these trophies, and perhaps jwz could throw in a voucher for a free pizza.

http://mlkshk.com/p/JE0A

Re: SXSW RIP

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Post by nness »

newfund wrote: post #19

FWIW- My thoughts are similar on SXSW interactive. I have been going for several years, always finding that there was some amount of serendipity to putting so many nerds and vc-types in a very small space (see PG's essay on SV: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html ). This year I found it too chaotic. It's a nightmare to get in anywhere or know what's going on, even if you are "VIP." I had the good fortune to…

Having not yet had the opportunity to attend, what's the corporate schtick you're noticing?

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Post by wes-exp »

imjk wrote: post #14

Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.

On Apple devices, Safari's reader mode can fix that.

Re: SXSW RIP

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Post by qdog »

imjk wrote: post #14

Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.

You don't normally use on black? Get off my damn lawn, kid.
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