{"id":1396,"date":"2010-03-23T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:59:48","slug":"sxsw-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/sxsw-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week was South by Southwest here in Austin which is always hectic.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do too much, just hung out at various spots on the east side. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domystore.com\/austin\/\">Domy Books<\/a> for <em>20 Zines in 2 Days<\/em>, put on by my buddy Rand Renfrow of <a href=\"http:\/\/testeverythingzine.wordpress.com\/\">Test Everything<\/a> and the folks at Winners! Press. Unfortunately (for me) it was so crowded that I never got a chance to draw, but I did get to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katyart.com\/\">Katy Horan<\/a>&rsquo;s awesome art show there.<\/p>\n<p>I also went to <a href=\"http:\/\/okaymountain.com\/archive\/shows\">Okaymountain<\/a>. In the main room they had a totally dope show called <em>Temple of Booom<\/em>, a collaborative installation by the artist-run alternative space Cinders Gallery that will be open til April 17th. Then, in the project space, they had drawings by a group of dope-ass artists from Lawrence, KS who call themselves the Asteroid Head Art Club. They were all wearing maroon Asteroid Head jumpsuits with wigs and tiny little flags, here&#8217;s a pic of me posing with one of &#8217;em:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2010-03-23_image1.jpg\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobypicture.com\/user\/AsteroidHeadArt\/view\/6192091\">via<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bands at Okaymountain were the best that I heard all South By (not that I heard that many):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/silentdiane.bandcamp.com\/\">Silent Diane<\/a>, an electro\/new wave band from Austin who just put out a marbled blue 7&#8243;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewhitemice.bandcamp.com\/\">White Mice<\/a>, a noise band from Providence who wear crazy mice costumes emblazoned with Satanist slogans and play cymbals topped with saw blades<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chicavas.bandcamp.com\/\">Chica Vas<\/a>, a seventeen-piece all-woman, mostly percussion band from Austin, Brooklyn, and Osaka who got the whole room dancing on Saturday nite<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thesearepowers\">These Are Powers<\/a>, a kewl electronic band from Brooklyn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week was South by Southwest here in Austin which is always hectic. I didn&#8217;t do too much, just hung out at various spots on the east side. I went to Domy Books for 20 Zines in 2 Days, put on by my buddy Rand Renfrow of Test Everything and the folks at Winners! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[70,131,479,588,604,670,717],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recaps","tag-asteroid-head-art-club","tag-chica-vas","tag-okaymountain","tag-silent-diane","tag-south-by-southwest","tag-these-are-powers","tag-white-mice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}