February saw the second Barcamp Scotland to be held, and I was there to find out all the new sites, tools, services and tech that was on offer in Scotland’s capital. Here are some of the highlights…
More of the big bags, as we look deep into the Interactive bag; the challenges and attitudes about the film The Matador, and music from not influenced by the UK Sixties Mop Tops at all, The Black Hollies
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Today’s Guests
The Matador (at the SXSW Film Guide)
CC Chapman, Christian Payne, Phil Campbell, et al open the Interactive Big Bag with me
The Black Hollies (on MySpace)
A grab bag today, literally, as myself and a few friends dive into the delights of one of the conference big bags; alongside the illuminating documentary One Minute to Nine, and music from Sean Hayes
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Discussing the Zuckerberg keynote is one of the topics that I take of with Ian Scahfer, while the virtual world’s impact on real people is th focus of the Second Skin documentary. Finally, some live music from Australian upcoming musician Ash Grunwald.
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A truly magical mix of technology and art today, from the undead stalking prom night, to getting web pages on a mobile phone, through to the Harry Potter fandom experience. It’s all heere, just alohamora on your MP3 player!
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Things are never what they seem - and thats very true for today’s show. Shuttle is an absolutely engrossing movie, but does require you to know very little about it when you see it (and that makes the interview tricky); the AMEE project is uncovering the truth of our environment, or at least getting a mass of data; and the discovery of new music - today its Trash Fashion - is always a joy.
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And so into the interv iws - although one part preview/one interesting story with Brad Graham from SXSW Baby sits alongside the challenging film Sex Positive, based around the beginnings of the safe sex movement in New York, and the youthful exuberance of the one of the top independent bands from the UK, Koopa!
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The final preview of the SXSW Podcast is with Brent Grulke. SXSW Music is the core festival, or at least the oldest, and is regarded as one of the top music festivals in the world - ask any band if they would play here and they’d bite your leg off. Brent Grulke has been involved for many many years, and now is the Musical Director of the festival. What keeps him excited and involved, which bands would want to play, and how do you choose the best of the best to play the showcases?
Continuing our previews of the trinity that makes up SXSW, today is the turn of SXSW Film Head Honcho, Matt Dentler. Where do the films come from, what does Matt and the team get up to for the rest of the year, how cool is the Alamo, and what would Matt run in a Film Festival for people who have never seen a film? All that and more is in today’s show.
