Saturday night, Virgie and I went up to Gruene Hall in New Braunfels to listen to one of my all-time favorite bands, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. The Mother Truckers opened the show and were excellent! Great high energy country/roots-rock/Americana music. Their guitar player in particular was outstanding - lightning quick solos, with precision, taste, and cool licks.
The Peacemakers put on a fantastic show also. Every time I’ve seen them, I’m amazed at how much energy they put into the performance, how much they appreciate their fans, and how much fun they have playing their songs.
Roger was wearing that hat again. I really need to find where I can acquire one. Someone in the crowd brought this hilarious viking inspired hat out and Roger added it on to his gigantic sombrero. 
Photo by Anton.
Anton took some cool photos that you can check out in his Flickr stream.
If you ever have an opportunity to see the Peacemakers - don’t pass it up. It’ll be one of the best shows you’ve ever seen!
This is a video I made for Matt featuring his autocross run in his Honda Civic hatchback. It is a taste test of some stuff I’m going to do for the full SASCA promo video.
Matt’s Autocross Run - Click here for another funny movie.
There is so much aggression, pain, hate, anger, killing and not-niceness in the world right now. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If everyone in the world could just spend a few short days under my tutelage, the world would experience a level of united purpose and cooperation never before seen … united in effort to eliminate me.
Just a thought.
I’ve grown to hate this expression because invariably it is uttered about someone who has created something rather than spend their spare time watching TV, drinking beer, goofing off on the job, staring off into space, playing video games, etc., etc., etc.
Now, not to say that any of those activities is a waste of time (except maybe watching TV), but since when is being creative considered an inappropriate waste of time in comparison?
What does this say about us that creating things is an activity better left unseen? Why is it better to see or buy the results of this on television or off the shelf at Wal-mart?
Just wondering. By the way, I’m working on some stuff right now that will probably elicit a few “…too much time on my hands” comments, but I don’t care.
I’m just back from another fantastic trip to Big Bend and many other places in between. I’ll write about the trip this weekend, but for now, here are the photos from the trip.
Thursday: The Drive Out
- The Alamo movie set location, Brackettville. Hwy 674, 7 miles N. of Brackettville.
- Judge Roy Bean Museum
- Check into the hotel
- Dinner at Starlight
Friday
- Big Bend Ranch State Park
- Look around Lajitas
- Trail ride with Big Bend Stables, 4:30-8:00 PM
- Pick up Jeep @ Far Flung Outdoor Center
- Have dinner at the La Kiva steak house
Saturday
- Drive river road, see the Mariscal mine
- Swim suits for the hot springs - if time
- Dinner and music at the Starlight
Sunday
- Window Trail?
Monday
- Lost Mine Trail?
Monday or Tuesday: The Ride Home
- Ft. Davis site seeing
- Marfa Lights (if we stay Monday night)
- Alpine
- Caverns of Sonora
Anton and I planned on stopping by the Dorkbot tent, but the line and crowd were too intimidating, so we left, checked into our hotel, then came back for later events.
The
frog design SXSW Opening Party was pretty cool.
Malford Milligan’s band put on a great blues show and the Interactive crowd proved all kinds of stereotypes about computer oriented people true. We stayed for an hour or so, then headed out a few blocks away to the final party of the night.
The BuzzFeed / Ze Frank After Party at the Molotov Lounge was a good time. Open bar - we had a lot of great conversations with people who will never remember having them with us. Also, we ran into Anton’s long, lost brother: this guy
The second session was one on how your vlog can save the world. This one was more interesting. The panelists were knowledgeable and passionate about the topic and had good information. When we talked with them after the panel and again later at the ze Frank opening night party, we found them to be really cool people also.
- Media with no boundaries
- swajana.com
- momentshowing.net
- ryanedit.blogspot.com
- www.freevlog.org
- ryanishungry.com
- poor video quality driven by download and video start speed
The Interactive side anyway. I’m going with Anton.
Looking forward to hearing Will Wright talk about Spore and lots of cool web tech.
