I just got back from Austin, TX where I attended South by Southwest 2010. I have been wanting to attend SXSW ever since I learned about the festival years ago. Austin and SXSW is like an amalgamation of all the things I love: Films, Internet, Food, Music, Culture, Travel… The list goes on. One of my favorite websites, aintitcool.com, is based out of Austin, and it’s partly because of that site that one of my items on my list of things to do before I die was see a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse. So if I could pick one film festival to ever go to, this is it. I attended the Film and Interactive parts of the festival, however, Austin is the “live music capital of the world” so you don’t really need to attend the music part to experience it. I’ll post my thoughts on Interactive, Films and Food shortly.
This video was literally what was going through my head as I watched this film. Only there is much much more to the similarities than this: