Crazy Characters at SXSW - Day 3
Posted by: Varick Rosete on Thursday March 15, 2007
It is now Monday, I believe. Three days of SXSW have gone by and I am still attempting to draw every speaker whose workshop I attend.
My morning started out with Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui with Jeremy Keith and Derek Featherstone. I think this was a great introduction for those who aren’t in-the-know already of Ajax and Accessibility. Jeremy just has such an ease with talking, and Derek wasn’t that bad either. I had drawn Jeremy before and wanted to take a different direction this time, hence the Baby Jeremy-type drawing (similar to how I did Khoi’s on Day 1). Derek came across pretty easily, too.
Next was The Future of the Online Magazine with Sean Mills of The Onion, Laurel Touby of mediabistro.com, Joan Walsh of Salon.com and Ricky Van Veen of CollegeHumor.com, with moderation by Rufus Griscom of Nerve Media. Awesome way to start the day. Sean made the panel hilarious as he bantered with his fellow panelists and several questioneers with from-the-hip cutdowns that would make yo’ momma cry. So good. So good that I wanted to get down these sketches quickly so I could just watch the show. I actually tried to venture to a different drawing style, too, opting for more of a no-head-division-to-neck style. These remind me of the way Bruce usually draws. This is one of my favorite sets, so far, and one of my favorite panels. I highly recommend downloading the podcast as soon as it gets up.
My second session was The Growth and Evolution of Microformats with Tantek Celik, Frances Berriman, Michael Kaply and Glenn Jones. This session was so packed that I couldn’t really see a thing from where I was…so we’ll just have to mark this one off the list. Sorry guys.
Bullet Tooth Web Design was next. I got in there early because I knew it was going to be a crowded house to watch Jason Santa Maria and Andy Clarke talk about planning your website is just like pulling off a robbery. Great visuals. Great presentation. Even greater questions! With this set, I wanted to draw like Happy Tree Friends meet the Muppets. It’s always fun to try something different. This one makes me laugh everytime.
My last session of the day was Virtual Teaming: Collaborating Across Time and Space with Cruce Saunders and Linda Norman of Ariesnet, Inc. They offered up some great resources to maintain communication within virtual teams. On a side note, I met these guys from Innertee for the first time and, apparently, those guys had just met each other physically for the first time at SXSW, as well. Crazy. ANYway, I think I ended up with a great sketch of these two to end another awesome day of drawing at SXSW. Party-time!
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