Obligatory Follow-up
It’s Spring Break 2008 for me, dear bunnies, and it’s nice to have some time off to recalibrate the tools.
SXSW was good, but from what the more experienced people were saying it seems to be too packed and crowded to be as good as in years past — like Hawaii. I enjoyed the speakers and the general geek-playground atmosphere. The main bummer was the phenomenon of subject-matter overlap in panels being held at the same time, followed or preceded by hours of panels I wasn’t interested in. Lucky for me I was not there On Business and had only myself to please. The truly best part was seeing friends there, and getting closer to new ones. They were all so great, it made me feel like we could have been dropped into an empty airplane hangar and still have had all kinds of Awesome rigged up in no time.
I had a wonderful, lovely, fun birthday. And I got a new bunny.
Didn’t I leave tired and inspired? Yeah. Now I’m even more interested in the differences between a person and their persona, the private and public, the online and offline expression of sentiment… fiction, non-fiction and the fictions made by individuals to create personal relationship or convergence. These ideas need to be teased out with a Sharpie® and butcher paper. The general notion is similar to the fun I had making books about my friends, using googlisms. The ooh-weird! fun part was the inclusion of random statements that were true, or resembled them in real life. The humor and surprise were in the wild, far-out statements.
To make a long story short (i need to learn that trick), I came back from an interactive conference with a burning desire to physically make more books. Oops. The whole time I felt like I was about to be photographed and stuck into a LOLmaker (SXSW - yer doin it wrong!). Oh well, I did it my way.
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