#Out And About During The SXSW Film Festival(2016)

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Statistics from LC IG account: Year 2017

Post #2. I am going to share some data and observations and ask questions.

Liz has 501 posts in 365 days in 2017. She posts almost daily and is an open book.

Travel: There was less family travel in 2017 because of the birth of Ford.

Jan: Liz not at Sundance with AH and TC** Feb: Liz not at Berlin film festival with AH and TC** Mar 12-25 – Austin/Dallas Apr 9-12 – Moscow for Free Fire press May 1-2 – NYC for MetGala; May 13 – Dallas; May 27 – Dallas June 5-8 – NYC; June 21-23 – San Antonio July 1-3 – Armie in NYC and Liz in Denver/Vail (TC white cap selfie)**; July 13 – London; July 15 – Tulsa; July 24-25 – Liz in NYC and AH and TC in LA** Aug 3-13 – Crema/Rome/Sicily with family and friends; August 22-24 – San Antonio/Dallas Sept 2-3 – Dallas/NOLA; September 12-14 – NYC; September 27-30 – Dallas Oct 1 – Dallas; October 11 – Dallas; October 29 – Dallas Nov 17 – NYC; November 23-29 – Dallas/Denver Dec 10-11 – San Antonio; December 22-29 – Denver; December 29-31 – Cayman Islands

1.       Ford was born on Jan 18 and the first quarter of the year was spent with a new baby. AH had shoulder surgery and then went off to Sundance and then Berlin. I noted in Feb 2017, TC went to a pre-Oscars party with LC and AH. In March 2017, Liz mentioned she and Armie own a home in San Antonio. In Jan and Feb, TC liked 2 LC posts but in March he liked 8. TC often “likes” pics of Harper/Ford. Took note AH and LC are good friends with Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello. AH and LC are also good friends with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent. Luca visited Armie in June at his home.

11/30/20 Update: I don’t want to just breeze by the first few months of 2017 as I believe the chemistry was building. First you have Sundance and Berlin. We all saw the way the boys interacted at these promo events. LC was at neither of them. Then in March, AH is doing press for Free Fire at SXSW 2017 on March 13 while TC is doing press for Hot Summer Nights at SXSW 2017 in Austin on March 13. So they crossed paths there. TC starts filming Beautiful Boy in Los Angeles and San Francisco between end of March and thru May. Part of this time is actually living with AH and LC at their home but I have not details on the timeline of that. So AH keeps TC very close by. We hear from TC that filming was so intense at one point he had to receive medical care and I have no doubt AH was there to comfort him. 

2.       July is where things got interesting. Armie was in NYC by himself from July 1-3. This coincides with the picture of Tim in his apartment hallway on Armie’s IG account and also with Timmy posting the white cap selfie. Liz was in Denver/Vail at the time. It is only my humble opinion, because of my review of Liz’s IG posts from 2015-2016, something of substance went down with the boys on that trip. Further, LC went to NYC on July 24-25 by herself and AH and TC were left alone in LA. I think TC posted a pic of Armie’s backyard and wrote “Dreamy LA” on the 24th. What’s really interesting is that LC posted this random picture on July 27 referencing The Man from UNCLE and it says “smooches with a spy”. Flagged this as out of place and maybe sending a message. TC liked a lot of Liz’s posts during July.

3.       I sensed distance between AH and LC from August through the end of the year. They went on a trip to Crema/Rome/Sicily from Aug 3-13 with the kids and a few friends. It did not feel romantic or have the same vibe of her other past vacation posts. My humble opinion is they were working on hitting the reset button on this trip. AH did not post about her birthday in Aug that I can see. I got a gut feeling he was in the doghouse.

4.       In Sept 2017, you have promotion of CMBYN at TIFF and LC made no mention of it unlike all the other times in the past two years that she went overboard talking about the HUSBAND and his outfits and the premiers. Their body language again was different, noticeable at the Ralph Lauren event.

5.       In Oct 2017, you have promotion of CMBYN at the NYFF55 and also at the London Film Festival. Again, no mention of AH or the premieres.

6.       CMBYN press junket and general awards shows kicked into high gear in Nov in the US. AH + LC + TC spent a lot of time together. I posted a few pics. We know TC was at Ashton’s b-day party by the ocean on the 22nd and everyone noticed how AH looked at TC. TC liked a lot of LCs posts during Nov and only one in Dec.

 7.       LCs birthday post to TC in Dec freaked me out but even more TC’s reply back to her. See photo. I think because I feel in my gut that AH and TC passed a few bases in July his reply was odd or strategic/calculated (a sham). Everyone will have their own opinion on this.

 8.       We all saw the interviews and press with AH and TC during Q4 of 2017. Think Andrew Freund, Ellen DeGeneres, GQ Men of the Year party at Chateau Marmont, Neil Patrick Harris, etc. not to mention London, NYC and Toronto. Plus, TC has never taken down the white cap selfie on IG. My gut says LC picked up on this relationship after July 2017 and I am not sure how it was addressed. Were there deals made? 

Now on to 2018 where things get more intense esp in Rome. Again, I appreciate other viewpoints and feedback. Sorry for typos or grammatical errors. 

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‘Iron Sky’ The greatest song ever created by our generation that you’ve never heard of.. till now.

Paolo Nutini’s song Iron Sky, in my opinion is the best song ever written from our time. I would put this up their in the ranks off Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit, Iron Sky is up their amongst the greatest songs off all time

Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky Live studio recording at iconic Abbey Road, London

Iron Sky is a powerful, momentous, soulful, epic ballad detailing the fears of our harsh reality we live in, and the longing for love and freedom. This live performance of the song recorded at the established Abbey Road Studios in London. Made famous by The Beatles back in 1969 , you know the picture I’m talking about, with the zebra crossing. The Beatles recorded at and also named their eleventh studio album Abbey Road. Till this day the album artwork is the most iconic album cover in history. First released back in 2014 on the album Caustic Love by Paolo Nutini. Iron Sky is a masterpiece. The level of artistic genius this song possesses is on par with Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Over the years this song has gone under the radar due to Paolo Nutini’s hiatus from music. But over the years in times of crisis, The track resurfaces when we need to hear inspirational message of the song the most. Currently, Iron Sky is back on a psych due to the Corona virus pandemic and forced Lockdown.

Iron Sky speak to people around the world in quarantine. The global crisis COVID-19 has caused has brought about the songs revival once again, helping us cope with 2020 a little bit better. Iron Sky has become powerful force of hope and freedom from oppression over the years. The song has leant itself to the people’s voice of Iran, living under a cruel dictatorship regime. Iron Sky was rereleased following the Paris terrorist shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices, a French satire newspaper that printed a controversial comic strip poking fun out of the Islamic religion. The song also recharted during the fight for Scottish Independence. Iron Sky, is the song humanity didn’t know we needed. Mostly down to the tracks features of a stirring impassioned and inspiring speech by Charlie Chaplin, The iconic slapstick film star just as important to British Culture as Winston Churchill. Iron Sky is just amazing and the performance delivered by Paolo Nutini is emotional.

He received high praise from multi platinum selling artist Adele. Film Director Daniel Wolfe, also known as Plan B, the famous East London rapper who swapped music for the film industry made a powerful cinematic short film (linked above in the post) The song is a tail of epic proportions. Accompanied by guitar, piano and keyboard. Paolo Nutini takes you on a journey with his raspy tone, a voice no other musican alive today could match. Paolo Nutini was often referred to as Amy Winehouse’s male counter part. Until her unfortunate untimely death. Amy Winehouse was the only other British recording artist of the time that could rival Paolo Nutini voice. The track received high praise when it first charted. Iron Sky won Best Track 2014 at the Q Award, best music video 2015 at SXSW Film Festival. The track was also sampled by the amazing male artist Bon Iver (original artist of the notoriously covered song ‘skinny love) on the track “33 God” in 2016. Charlie Chaplin’s family approved the use of his most iconic speech from the 40’s Hollywood Movie, The Great Dictator. taking a poke at humanity, religion, freedom aimed at Hitler and The Rise of the Nazi party prior to WW2. Unbeknown to Chaplin at the time, the fictional events depicted in the film would actually mirror real life years later in Germany.

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How I Letterboxd #6: Sean Boelman.

Talking 2020 movie trends, the year’s best documentaries, and Elijah Wood’s death-stare with peach emoji lobbyist Sean Boelman.

“Honestly, there’s not much I like to do other than watch movies or go to theme parks, and one of those things wasn’t an option for months.”

In a year like no other for the movie business, it’s still possible to see hundreds of new films if you have the right connections. For professional critics, the downside of missing the in-person festival buzz and tent-pole previews is somewhat offset by the upside of being able to pace out your screenings in the comfort of your own home.

Wondering who might possibly hold the title of “the Letterboxd member who has watched the most new releases so far this year”, we poked around in the server room and found Sean Boelman, who has logged well over 400 films from 2020 in his diary. So far this year, Sean (20) has covered the Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Florida and Fantasia Film Festivals; he also reviews films via screeners sent through from PR firms. Sean hails from Orlando, Florida, and is the founder of movie review platform disappointment media, which he created to promote a wider range of voices in film criticism.

Park So-dam and peach in ‘Parasite’ (2019), directed by Bong Joon-ho.

How long ago did you join Letterboxd? I joined Letterboxd back in 2015. I attended a film class that summer and the teaching assistant had an account and encouraged all of us to create our own. I’ve been using the app religiously ever since.

You’re our youngest ‘How I Letterboxd’ participant to date. How would you describe your experience on Letterboxd as a teenager? When I was in high school, I was one of the earliest adopters of the app, so I told all of my friends about it and suggested that they use it too. By the time I got to college, it was already in the mainstream within the film community, so I was just the guy with the most extensive account. I love how Letterboxd is a community for film fans to talk about films we love, and with the exception of a few trolls every once in a while, it’s really conducive to good discussions.

Which features have you found the most useful? I’m definitely an obsessive logger. The diary feature is without a doubt my favorite part of the app. I started logging in June 2015 and have logged every feature-length film (and some shorts) I’ve watched since. I made the decision not to retroactively mark everything I’ve seen in my life as watched, because that would be too monumental a task. I also find Letterboxd particularly useful during a festival. It’s interesting to see the buzz about what movies people do and don’t like so that I can adjust my schedule accordingly.

And what’s a feature you wish Letterboxd had? I really loved when you guys changed the stars to flames for Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It would be awesome if you started doing that more regularly for releases that get a sizeable following. Like, give Parasite peaches.

Ivana Baquero and Doug Jones in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro.

What film kicked off your passion for cinema, and specifically, which films or community of film fans motivated you to watch as many films as you can find for the current year? I’ve loved cinema for as long as I can remember, but the film that I credit with really birthing my love for film as art is Pan’s Labyrinth. When I saw that in theaters at the—probably too young—age of six, I felt like [Guillermo] del Toro transported me into Ofelia’s world, and I then realized what magical capabilities the medium of film has.

As for why I’m motivated to watch so many new releases, I have a bit of an issue with saying no, haha. As a film critic, I’m inundated with requests to review movies, from major studio releases to B-movies most people have never heard of. I’ve done my fair share of adding titles to TMDb. I end up reviewing anywhere from ten to twenty new releases a week, depending on the season.

You’re a film critic, but you only post short summaries on Letterboxd instead of your full reviews. Why share only brief thoughts? Much of this boils down to the fact that when I watch something, it’s still under embargo for full reviews, so I can only log it in my Letterboxd diary and leave a little blurb. I also find that there isn’t as much room for humor in my full reviews, so I like using this platform to get my jokes out.

So, as of writing, you’ve ranked 457 films from 2020. What percentage of your total films seen are from these new ‘Roaring Twenties’? Out of the films I’ve logged on Letterboxd, it seems like about ten percent are listed on Letterboxd as movies from 2020. The actual percentage would be quite a bit lower than that, though, since my Letterboxd doesn’t include anything I watched prior to June 2015.

Before Covid-19 shutdowns, how many of these films did you have the opportunity to see in theaters? Which were your most memorable theatrical experiences of the year? In 2020, I was able to see 29 films in theaters, either paid or in a theatrical press screening, before they shut down. I’ve also gotten to see some since the shutdown in drive-ins or from the Florida Film Festival holding socially distanced, in-person screenings. But I definitely went through a bit of theater withdrawal. I missed the smell of popcorn dearly.

For my favorite theatrical experiences in 2020, seeing The Invisible Man on opening night with a packed crowd was definitely a hoot. I was sad at first to have missed the press screening, but like most great horror movies, it was awesome to see it with an audience and hear them gasp in surprise in the action sequences. Another one was getting to see Weathering with You in 4DX. Normally you wouldn’t think of that as a big, spectacle-driven 4DX movie, but it was super-immersive in all of the Sunshine Girl scenes.

And I have some awesome memories from SXSW 2019. At the world premiere of Us, I was pushed into Elisabeth Moss. I once got a death stare from Elijah Wood who seemed to think I was going to approach him. Don’t get me wrong, I love his work—but I wasn’t going to because of etiquette. I watched Long Shot with one of the world’s leading geneticists and then got to see Boyz II Men perform live. And I laughed hysterically when Robert Patrick said in a Q&A that even he didn’t understand the movie he was in. It’s a fun time. I definitely encourage any cinephiles to attend an in-person festival when things get back to normal.

You have more than seventy films in your 2020 list with five or four and a half stars. Would you describe yourself as a generous rater? I was definitely a lot more generous when I started my Letterboxd than I am now. I’m sure if I rewatched some of those films I logged in 2015 and 2016, they’d get a lower rating today. But I really don’t mind it. I don’t see my purpose as a critic as to tear apart the filmmaker’s art—I want to appreciate it. Maybe I’m a little liberal with my five-star rating, but what can I say? Gosh, I love movies. And for me, a five-star rating doesn’t mean perfect, it means great. I don’t think there’s such thing as a perfect film. A five-star [rating] from me means that it connected with me in an extraordinary way. I reserve the ‘like’ for films that set themselves apart from the rest of the five stars by some virtue. If I give it a five and a like, now that’s something you should definitely not miss.

Tunde Adebimpe in ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ (2020), directed by Amy Seimetz.

Your best film of 2020 so far is Amy Seimetz’s She Dies Tomorrow—it’s also your number three of all time. What resonated so strongly with you about the film? Are you surprised about its divisive reaction? I absolutely adore She Dies Tomorrow. I’ve really admired Amy Seimetz’s work as an actress for a long time, and her work behind the camera on this blew me away. I haven’t seen Sun Don’t Shine yet, but it’s on the top of my list. It connected with me because it really captured some of the anxieties I’ve been going through recently. She obviously didn’t set out to make the definitive Covid film, but that’s what it ended up being. And of course, how could you not love that film’s extraordinary use of color. It looks magnificent. But I’m not at all surprised at how divisive it is. It has a very segmented and unorthodox narrative, and not everyone is a fan of that type of structure. I understand why it hasn’t worked as well for some people.

What are the other most overlooked films of 2020 so far? In terms of overlooked 2020 films, I think the big one is the Russell Simmons exposé On the Record. I think that Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s The Hunting Ground is one of the most harrowing documentaries I have ever seen in my life, and On the Record combines a lot of that relevance while also offering a really compelling look at the life of a powerful woman in the music industry. It’s great, and only about one thousand members have logged it on Letterboxd. Watch it on HBO Max!

There are a lot of great movies released in 2020 that are widely available and [fewer than] 5,000 people having logged them on Letterboxd. A White, White Day is a great little revenge thriller from Iceland. But what makes it stand out from the genre is that it’s a lot more understated and character-driven than most. It has similar vibes to You Were Never Really Here, but perhaps even quieter. Maria von Hausswolff’s cinematography is absolutely breathtaking, and Ingvar Sigurðsson gives one of my favorite performances of the year. It’s just a gorgeous film.

Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic revenge thriller ‘A White, White Day’(2019).

The Painted Bird is a bit harder to recommend because it is by no means fun, but it’s one of those that you have to watch once and will never want to see again. I described it as “auteur shock cinema”. It’s a three-hour-long Holocaust drama that’s bleak and filled with torture, but it’s powerful, heartbreaking and harrowing. It also features great performances all around, especially from child actor Peta Kotlár.

I think Michael Winterbottom is one of the best directors working right now and I’ve always loved what he did with the Coogan-Brydon combo in his The Trip series, and this year’s entry, The Trip to Greece, is probably the best one yet. Over the course of the decade the series has spanned, Coogan and Brydon have changed a lot, and this series—in which they play themselves—has adapted to reflect that. This one’s a lot more heartfelt, but still features plenty of great impressions and tantalizing food shots. This really is one of my favorite film series of all time, so you should check all four out! Some other overlooked films I can think of are Jasper Mall, Aviva and Sword of God.

Which 2020 films would you say are the most overrated? Any absolute must-avoids? This is going to be a really hot take, but there was a trifecta of homebound horror flicks that came out in July—Relic, The Rental and Amulet—and I didn’t care for any of them. I think all the directors are talented and show a lot of potential, especially Natalie Erika James, but I wasn’t a fan of any of the films. As for ones to avoid, I try not to call out bad movies unless there’s a reason to [do so], and there are only two of those this year: Coffee & Kareem and Elvis from Outer Space. Coffee & Kareem is just offensive, and Elvis from Outer Space tries to be so-bad-it’s-funny and falls flat.

Jahi Di’Allo Winston in ‘Charm City Kings’ (2020), directed by Ángel Manuel Soto.

What films that you’ve been fortunate to preview via screeners or film festivals are you certain will be a big deal once they’re available on general release? Ugh, there are some I wish I could talk about but I’m still under embargo! So I’ll have to talk mostly about festival ones. Alice Gu’s The Donut King is wonderful. It was supposed to debut at SXSW, but obviously that got cancelled. On one hand, it is a food doc about donuts—who doesn’t love donuts?—but it’s also a moving story about the immigrant experience. It scored distribution from Greenwich and should be released soon. Charm City Kings is great, and HBO Max picked that up to be released sometime this year. That’s a really awesome coming-of-age movie with a story by Barry Jenkins. And I saw a work-in-progress cut of this indie called Millennium Bugs made by an up-and-comer named Alejandro Montoya Marín. He was part of the Robert Rodriguez show Rebel Without a Crew. It’s a great little movie about Y2K and the Latinx experience that will be debuting online at Dances with Films and is looking for a distributor after that.

Fill in the blank: “2020 is a great year for ____ in film”. What patterns have you noticed? I really think that 2020 is a great year for documentaries. We thought 2018 was a great year with Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, RBG and Three Identical Strangers, among others, but this year is shaping up to be even better. Boys State, The Donut King, On the Record, Rebuilding Paradise, Dark City Beneath the Beat, A Secret Love and Disclosure are all excellent, and that’s just scratching the surface.

I think what makes these documentaries stand out is their ability to make the viewer feel connected to their story. I love documentaries that take a story you might not have otherwise heard of and tell it in a way that feels intensely personal. By taking these stories like the problems inherent in American democracy, the immigrant experience, the California wildfires, the #MeToo movement, and issues with trans representation on screen and telling them in a way that people can relate to them even if they can’t personally identify with their subjects, these documentary filmmakers are making the world a more compassionate place.

What films are you most looking forward to that are scheduled to release in 2020? Any awards season predictions you feel strongly about? In terms of mainstream releases, I’m most excited for No Time to Die, unless it gets pushed to 2021 like some have rumored. I’m a huge Cary Joji Fukunaga fan, so I’m excited to see what he does with the franchise. For indies, I’m really looking forward to seeing Promising Young Woman, The Green Knight, Save Yourselves!, Nomadland and Another Round.

For awards seasons predictions, there are a few I’m pretty confident about based on what I’ve seen. Boys State is an early frontrunner for Best Documentary. I think Eliza Hittman will get some love for Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Dev Patel is a pretty good bet for a Best Actor nod for The Personal History of David Copperfield, even though the movie itself probably won’t get much more love. And there’s an upcoming Netflix movie that has a screenplay nomination in the bag, and maybe a couple other categories too, but shhhh, I’m under embargo on that one so I can’t say more.

Dev Patel in ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (2019), directed by Armando Iannucci.

You keep thorough distributor rankings as well as year and franchise lists—how would you sum up the way each of these recently formed companies inspires you? Obviously A24 and NEON have amassed a pretty big cult following, and for good reason. There’s a particular identity their films have, despite the differences in genre, and I enjoy ranking them because of that. For the streamers, their films are a little more diverse, but I use my lists as a way for people to discover some of my favorite films they can watch at the click of a button. And for Blumhouse, it’s just because I absolutely adore the work Jason Blum does in supporting filmmakers’ voices. I’m usually pretty cool-headed around celebrities because interacting with high-profile people is a part of our job as critics, but I admittedly froze when I met him at SXSW since I’m such a big fan of his. I’ve always said that once I score an interview with him, I can “retire” as a critic, haha.

You’re of Guatemalan descent. Which films do you best relate with your Latino heritage? Of course, Pan’s Labyrinth is a big deal for me given the fact that it was a formative film in my life. [Alejandro] Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain is one of my favorite Latino classics. El Mariachi is great because Robert Rodriguez is the epitome of Latino DIY filmmaking and has always been such an inspiring figure. I got to interview him last year for Alita: Battle Angel, and it was an awesome experience. And in terms of more recent films, I think the Netflix doc Mucho Mucho Amor really captures the importance of community amongst Latinos.

What films are highest on your list of shame? I will say that I’ve seen more classics than I have logged on Letterboxd, but there are still a few embarrassing gaps on my list. I love the work I’ve seen from Akira Kurosawa, Brian De Palma, Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman, and I really want to finish up their filmographies. Probably the most shameful omission I have is the fact that I’ve never seen a film by Ingmar Bergman. I’ve been lightening my workload for my site a bit, so I’m hoping to catch up on some of those soon.

Who are three Letterboxd members you recommend we follow? My friend Camden Ferrell who co-founded disappointment media with me. He’s also very passionate about film and does a lot of reviews for the site. Another one of our contributors is Sarah, who came on to the team during Sundance this year. She’s great and basically started the Portrait of a Lady on Fire fandom. I also want to give a shout-out to Jon Berk who was actually the critic to challenge me to start a blog back in 2016 when he was doing the Doug Loves Movies challenge, and now I’ve gotten to where I significantly outpace him, haha.

Sean’s site accepts story pitches from, and offers constructive feedback to, aspiring writers from under-represented and minority groups. Email Sean to find out more. Check out these 2020 rankings from Letterboxd members who have watched more than 100 releases this year: Orlan Harris, Austin Burke, Jerome, Joey Magidson, Kevin Yang, Jack, Jordan Raup, Matt Neglia, Weather Boy, Julian D, Johann Rucker, Mikey Brzezinkski, Ewan Graf, Denis Eremeev, Aaron King.

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Instead of doing replies, here’s this massive hc post that nobody needed or wanted lmao ayyy

Seoul Hanoi'd

  Genre: The Wikipedia page describes them as an indie rock alt-rock group, with the genres listed under the main box being indie rock, alternative rock, and some forrays into indietronica. 

  The group is described as genre-bending, as they will stick mainly with an indie rock vibe/folk punk (think violent femmes with that term), but they’ll pull elements from a wide range of genres. Seoul Hanoi’d is made up of singers and musicians whose wheelhouses include jazz, country/bluegrass/Americana, folk rock, indie rock, glam rock, garage rock revival, pop rock, classical, traditional Eastern, and R&B, so it isn’t unusual for a song to feature a cleverly placed jazzy bass throughout (like Ladies’ Code, Galaxy) or a mandolin. 

Background: Seoul Hanoi’d was founded in 2010 when a “joke in a conversation” between American-Cambodian singer, song-writer, and musician Franny Sor Robinson and Scottish drummer Max Jin-ho Cho came to life. The group currently consists of ethnic Korean, Vietnamese, Bhutanese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Malaysian, Indonesian, Mongolian, Kazakh, Chinese, Nepalese, and Thai diaspora who rotate out for live shows as their schedules permit. All members of Seoul Hanoi’d have either their own solo music careers, or are primarily involved in acting, or have a primary band they are active in. There are four founding members and eight other members, totaling twelve. In addition to the twelve official members of Seoul Hanoi’d, other guest musicians have played with them when none of the twelve in the official lineup could fill a role. 

  The "core” members are almost all at every performance. Of the core members, Franny is absent the most because of her wildly busy schedule. She has a hand in composing almost every original song, arranging most of the covers, writing a huge chunk of their lyrics, and is the common thread between most of the other musicians, so she is considered the leader of the group.

  The band has won Grammy Awards, and since many of the band members are British they’ve won awards in Britain too, and because of the two Canadian members they’ve been nominated for awards in Canada. The band is labeled British-American-Canadian on the Wikipedia page. Though, one member is from Australia, and one from New Zealand. They joke that since Canada, the US, and UK all have at least two members, they get to be on the Wikipedia page.They have been given numerous honors from various Asian cultural organizations in The United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Canada.

  Because of Seoul Hanoi’d’s unique structure, any touring is done in small legs and there’s usually a live lineup switcheroo from leg to leg. The band has a massive online following -- even when they don’t do live shows for a while they pump out content on their YouTube channel including covers, performances of their original content, charity livestreams, Learn [Language] with [Member], and occasional vlogs where the members teach you about their culture(s) by showing the viewer around a cultural festival or a traditional wedding or something.

  Founding members: Franny Sor Robinson (Cambodian-American), Vanessa Pham (Vietnamese-American folk indie singer-songwriter and guitarist), Max Jin-ho Cho (Korean-Scottish singer-songwriter, drummer, and pianist), Mary Xiong (Hmong-American indie rock singer and musician)

  Other members: Pangfoua Zangkai (Hmong-Canadian actress, singer,  and guitarist), Lawrence Hardjono (Indonesian-Australian bassist, lyricist, singer), Roslan Ali (Malaysian-New Zealand glam/indie rock singer, director, musician, song-writer, and author), Souksakhone “Holly” Rasavong (Laotian-Canadian pianist/keyboardist, composer, producer, drummer), Aisulu Niyazova-Li (Kazakh-Chinese-English actress, singer, and musician), Jodie Batbayar (Mongolian-English musician, singer, violinist, activist, and producer), Andrew “Andy” Chaiyaporn (Thai-American drummer, guitarist, singer, and violinist), Hannah Sadutsang (Nepalese-Bhutanese-English musician, lyricist)

  Main singer on album recordings: Franny Sor Robinson, songs v personal to the other singers are sometimes recorded by them, the main male vocalist is Roslan Ali

  Main singer live: Generally Franny Robinson for Europe shows, but of the core members she’s absent most and in her absence Aisulu Niyazova-Li, Vanessa Pham, or Mary Xiong typically will take lead

  Core live members: Franny Robinson (singer, main lyricist), Max Cho (drummer),Vanessa Pham (backing vocals, lead guitar), Pangfoua Zangkai (rhythm guitar, harmony lines), Roslan Ali (main male vocalist, lyricist, assorted instruments, directs most music videos), Lawrence Hardjono (bassist), Holly Rasavong (piano, keyboard), Andy Chaiyaporn (violinist, stringed instrument god)

  Most common live substitutes: 

  Franny Robinson (singer) may be replaced with Aisulu Niyazova-Li, Vanessa Pham, or Mary Xiong 

Max Cho (drummer) may be replaced with Andy Chaiyaporn who is usually in charge of string instruments or Holly Rasavong

Andy Chaiyaporn (string god) can be replaced with Jodie Batbayar

Vanessa Pham (lead guitar, backing vocals) can be replaced with Mary Xiong, Aisulu Niyazova-Li, or Jodie Batbayar

Pangfoua Zangkai (rhythm guitar, some harmonies) can be replaced with Hannah Sadutsang or Mary Xiong

 Roslan Ali (male singer, various instruments) can be replaced with Andy Chaiyaporn, or Lawrence Hardjono will sing and play bass

Lawrence Hardjono (bassist) can be replaced with Mary Xiong, Aisulu Niyazova-Li, Jodie Batbayar, or Hannah Sadutsang

Holly Rasavong (piano, keyboard) can be replaced by Hannah Sadutsang, Jodie Batbayar, or Aisulu Niyazova-Li

  Connections:

  Franny was friends with all of the members individually before most of them knew each other, Franny is the common thread. 

  Vanessa Pham is an American solo artist that Franny went to NYU with

Max Jin-ho Cho is a Scottish drummer, pianist, and singer that Franny met during a song-writing session with a mutual friend who is in Max’s main band, a Scottish rock band called Glasgow Gravedigger Society

Mary Xiong is the frontwoman of an American glam rock band called Borrowing Sally’s Mascara that Franny met when they performed at the same music festival that Daniel Maitland’s main band was (an alternative female-fronted  rock band called Venus and The Flytraps; he’s the other half of the bluegrass/indie country/americana duo Dara & Danny that Franny does) and Franny was there to support him, and a mutual friend introduced them to Mary

Pangfoua Zangkai is a Canadian actress that Franny met in 2008 when they were actually co-starring in an indie comedy movie directed by a mutual friend. The film was about two first-generation American women nearing the end of their final year of university, and deals with the pressure children of immigrant parents often deal with regarding their families hopes and dreams, and the feelings of not feeling American “enough” and not feeling Hmong or Cambodian “enough” through a comedic lens. The film won several awards from different organizations in the West meant to promote Asian/Southeast Asian culture and art, and has become pretty important to many people in Southeast Asian diaspora groups. Pangfoua is primarily an actress, but can sing and play guitar.

Lawrence Hardjono is an Australian singer and musician who is mostly known for his solo career primarily across Australia, New Zealand, and in his parents’ native Indonesia. Franny met him when they were both speakers at a Southeast Asian cultural event in Australia

Roslan Ali is a New Zealand rock singer, musician, and author that had been friends with Lawrence Hardjono for a while. He fronts an all Asian-New Zealander and Maori band called Kiwaisa Pacific

Holly Rasavong is a Canadian musician and producer that has produced several of Venus and The Flytraps’ albums, so she’s someone else that Franny met through her connection to Daniel Maitland.

Aisulu Niyazova-Li is one of the youngest members of Seoul Hanoi’d, at twenty-nine. She is an English actress, singer, and musician that Franny met when Aisulu reached out to Franny via her publicist about coming to speak at her (Aisulu’s) university. Aisulu was the president of the Asian Student Union at the time. Franny thought Aisulu was pretty damn great and kept in touch with her, even hooking her up with an audition for a record label. She has a solo R&B singing career under the name Niya Li.

Jodie Batbayar is an English singer, violinist, and activist most known for her violin skill. She can play classical style and fiddle style. She met Franny when the two of them were speaking at an event about Asian women’s empowerment

 Andrew “Andy” Chaiyaporn is an American drummer, guitarist, singer, and violinist. He typically plays violin in an American indie folk band called Maggie Creek, named after a stream in his native Nevada. He met Franny through a Facebook group for Southeast Asian-American creatives.

Hannah Sadutsang is English musician and lyricist most famous for writing the lyrics for many popular songs in the UK. Hannah is actually the youngest and most recent official member of Seoul Hanoi’d. She’s a former student of Franny Robinson’s at Pride University.

  Inspiration playlist: Link 

  Seoul Hanoi’d experiments with both live instruments and some elements of electronic music, but it’s always meant to accompany live instrumentation. 

  They have an entire album that’s explicitly political, aptly named The Political One, and a couple other songs subtly so. 

Awards, iconic performances, etc:

  Seoul Hanoi’d has won Grammys

Main songwriter, Franny Sor Robinson, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019 at the age of thirty-nine

Their Glastonbury 2016 performance, fronted by Franny Sor Robinson, has been heralded as one of the best live shows of the Festival in the last decade

Seoul Hanoi’d has performed at SXSW almost every year since 2013 

They have been invited to perform in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Mongolia, Bhutan, Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, and Indonesia by important figures either in entertainment or government to thank them for promoting and educating about their various cultures abroad

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Out and about sxsw!

South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

In July 1986, the organizers of the New York City music festival New Music Seminar contacted Roland Swenson, a staffer at the alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle, to talk about organizing an extension of that festival into Austin. They thereafter announced they were going to hold a "New Music Seminar Southwest". The plans did not materialize, however, so Swenson decided to instead co-organize a local music festival, with the help of two other people at the Chronicle: editor and co-founder Louis Black, and publisher Nick Barbaro. Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest. (While Southwest by South is an actual point on a compass, South by Southwest is not.

The event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it a regional event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came, and according to Black "it was national almost immediately." Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro and Swenson remained the festival's key organizers as of 2010.

SXSW is the highest revenue-producing event outside of athletic and other events associated with The University of Texas at Austin for the Austin economy, with an estimated economic impact of $190.3 million in 2012 increasing to $218 million in 2013, $315 million in 2014, $317 million in 2015, and $325 million in 2016. (In comparison, Super Bowl LI brought a $347 million economic impact to the Houston economy and the 2017 Final Four brought a $324 million economic impact to the economy of Phoenix, Arizona.)

Additionally, demand for hotel rooms in the Austin area continued to outstrip supply, pushing average nightly room rates up to an all-time high of $350 in 2016, a 60 percent increase over the average room rate seen during 2011's edition of SXSW. The average SXSW registrant also stayed in Austin longer in 2016, spending an average of 5.2 nights, up from 4.9 nights in 2015

A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog, is a form of blog for which the medium is video.

New York artist Nelson Sullivan was known for recording videos around New York City and South Carolina, in a vlog-like style back in the 1980s.

On January 2, 2000, Adam Kontras posted a video alongside a blog entry aimed at informing his friends and family of his cross-country move to Los Angeles in pursuit of show business, marking the first post on what would later become the longest-running video blog in history. In November of that year, Adrian Miles posted a video of changing text on a still image, coining the term vog to refer to his video blog. Filmmaker and musician Luuk Bouwman started in 2002 the now-defunct Tropisms.org site as a video diary of his post-college travels, one of the first sites to be called a vlog or videolog. In 2004, Steve Garfield launched his own video blog and declared that year "the year of the video blog".

[savetopnow]

2018-03-24 10 MUSIC now

MUSIC

Brooklyn Vegan

tours announced: Essaie Pas, Ringo, Leon Bridges, Sword/Atomic Bitchwax, more

Adam Torres brought his unique brand of songwriting to SXSW (pics)

Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' in theaters now (stream Alexandre Desplat's score)

Four Tet released new music under alias, wraps up National Sawdust run tonight (pics, video)

Father John Misty, Oh Sees & more playing Kurt Vonnegut festival in Indiana

Consquence of Sound

Bill Hader is a Shitty Actor Trying to Outpace Death in the Hilarious, Surprisingly Existential Barry

Film Review: Game Over, Man! Treads Over Too Much Well-Worn Comic Territory

Sinead O’Connor, under the name Magda Davitt, announces first US shows in four years

CHVRCHES delicately cover Beyoncé’s “XO”: Watch

Q-Tip set to portray Miles Davis in new theater production My Funny Valentine

Fact Magazine

Go behind the scenes of Air producer JB Dunckel’s stunning studio

Toni Braxton – Confessions

Delroy Edwards announces new album Rio Grande

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement releases new album Red Ants Genesis

Fractal Fantasy’s new synth turns its CGI universe into a browser instrument

Fluxblog

The Moon Right Behind Me

Make Me Feel Right

I Loved And I Lost

Very Nice Very Nice

To Be Lucky Once

Idolator

Christina Aguilera Reveals “Infatuation” Was Inspired By A Gay Lover, Talks “Fighter” During ‘Untucked’

Pentatonix Unveil A Vibrant Reimagining Of Charlie Puth’s “Attention”

Shawn Mendes’ “Lost In Japan” Is An Atmospheric Smash

Sia Reunites With David Guetta On Their Tropical-Tinged “Flames”

Ryan Tedder Talks Working With Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes & More

Listen to This

Shadow of Whales -- Fall Back [Alternative indie-pop] (2014)

Datasuck - You're my Comp Sci Class Crush [synthwave]

Double Date -- If You Love Me (Really Love Me) [Barbershop] (2016). Double Date is a barbershop quartet consisting of two married couples.

The Teeth - Oh, Bessie! [Indie Rock] [2006]

King Woman - Doubt EP [Doom] 2014

Popjustice

NONONO’s new one is v excellent and here’s the video

New Music Friday: all hail Let’s Eat Grandma’s miniature pop symphony

Paloma Faith’s branded content is better than your branded content

Saluting the artwork for PRETTYMUCH’s Healthy

Louisa Johnson interview: “We went, ‘oh, fuck it, let’s just get drunk’”

Reddit Music

Give me some good reasons why Coldplay sucks.

Is John Williams - Duel of the Fates the most powerful song song ever written for a movie?

Pantera - Cemetery Gates [Discussion]

Was there an artist who was a massive letdown after one or two songs?

*NEW* Dance Gavin Dance Album Announced - “Artificial Selection” available Summer 2018

Rolling Stone

Russell Simmons Faces New $10 Million Lawsuit Alleging Rape

Taylor Swift Pledges Support for Gun Reform, March For Our Lives

Hear Thirty Seconds to Mars' New Song With A$AP Rocky, 'One Track Mind'

See Chvrches Perform Intimate Cover of Beyonce's 'XO'

Hear Shawn Mendes Flex R&B Skills With New Song 'Lost in Japan'

Slipped Disc

One lone British singer in Glyndebourne’s finalists

Death of a harpsichord king

Johann’s last notes are coming out on record

One of those endearing maestros who use the podium as their personal gym

The night Pogorelich paralysed Carnegie Hall

Spotify Blog

Spotify Launches Integration with New and Existing Cadillac Models

Spotify Launches ‘Louder Together’ with First Multi-Artist Spotify Single Collaboration from Independent Stars Sasha Sloan, Nina Nesbitt and Charlotte Lawrence

Spotify Launches Self-Serve Advertising Platform in the UK and Canada

Spotify Announces Launch of Line-In

John Hancock and Spotify Give Runners Everywhere Access to Custom Playlists and Tips from Some of the World’s Fastest Marathoners

We Are the Music Makers

How can I go about having a recognizable music style as a cartoon film composer?

Is a Maschine MK3 or MPC Live worth buying?

I fell in love with Harmonic Minor, now all my songs sound like the pursuit of El Dorado.

Can I give a Launchpad S to a friend

Help with tonicization, modulation and pivot chords

[shortyawards]

Raymond Braun is presenting at the 11th Annual Shorty Awards!

Raymond Braun is an award-winning TV host and media personality (Catfish: Trolls, MTV News, CNN, RuPaul's Drag Race, I Am Jazz, Decoded, Clean Slate, and more), journalist, writer, and LGBTQ advocate. He was named "one of the preeminent queer activists of his generation" by OUT, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Global All Star, and the #1 most influential young LGBTQ leader in the world by the Financial Times Pride Power Rankings.

Raymond is the Executive Producer and Host of the forthcoming feature length documentary, State of Pride, which made its world premiere as the Opening Night Documentary at SXSW Film Festival. The film – directed by Academy Award winners Jeff Friedman and Rob Epstein, and produced in conjunction with leading digital studio Portal A – explores the significance, controversy, and meaning of Pride for young people 50 years after the Stonewall Riots.

Raymond has traveled the world to report on political and social movements. His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, NBC News, ABC, MSNBC, MTV, VH1, Logo, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Entrepreneur, and many more. As Logo’s inaugural Political Correspondent, Raymond helped establish the LGBTQ television network as a key player in conversations about LGBTQ equality in politics through a combination of innovative social media reporting and TV coverage. His coverage has included anti-LGBTQ legislation, the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court marriage equality decision, swing state politics, the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, and both the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. As a reporter on the 2016 campaign trail, Raymond moderated a social media influencers Town Hall with Hillary Clinton and interviewed Chelsea Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Robby Mook, Cecile Richards, and many more on the trail. Raymond also traveled to Orlando the day after the tragedy at Pulse nightclub to provide heartfelt, on-the-ground reporting centered on LGBTQ stories. Raymond’s award-winning political coverage for Logo has also been shared and broadcast by VH1 and MTV News.

Raymond hosted GLAAD’s groundbreaking Southern Stories tour through the conservative “Bible Belt,” an eye-opening social media series that tackled homophobia, transphobia, and racism in some of the most hostile environments for the LGBTQ community. Raymond also partnered with Instagram to curate and launch the first ever LGBT video series on the platform, #VisibleMe, which was featured on the “Explore” homepage of Instagram and trended at #1 on BuzzFeed upon launch.

Raymond started his career as an intern at Google, advancing over his five year tenure to lead YouTube's social media campaigns and programs team before leaving to start his own media and consulting company, RWB Media. During his tenure at YouTube and Google, Raymond originated YouTube's first ever LGBTQ marketing campaign, #ProudToLove, which won several awards and served as inspiration for Google’s broader diversity and inclusion marketing. Under Raymond’s leadership, YouTube became the most followed brand on social media and one of the top five best perceived brands by the LGBTQ community (YouGov Brand Index). Known for reinventing YouTube’s social strategy with bold, creative, and experimental new ideas, Raymond spearheaded more than five #1 organic trending topics globally.

In addition to politics, Raymond’s love of pop culture and entertainment is evident in his correspondent work for several red carpet events and premieres, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Emmys. He has been the official red carpet correspondent for the GLAAD Media Awards (NYC and LA) for three years. Raymond has interviewed everyone from Eddie Redmayne, Chrissy Teigen, Alicia Vikander, and Judith Light to Demi Lovato, Ruby Rose, America Ferrera, and Kylie Minogue.

Raymond was one of 50 media personalities and social influencers to be invited by President Barack Obama to the White House's "Digital Innovators Summit" to discuss and advise Obama's outgoing administration on how to leverage social media. Raymond is regularly interviewed and quoted on LGBTQ issues, Pride, social justice, politics, social media, diversity and inclusion, and technology. He has delivered keynote speeches and interviews at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, Forbes CMO Summit, Stanford Business School (where he co-taught a class), Social Media Week LA and NYC, New York Advertising Awards, Create and Cultivate, and New York Advertising Awards.

Raymond graduated early cum laude from Stanford University with a M.A. in Media Studies (Journalism focus) and a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society. He received the J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Distinction, awarded to the top .01% of each year’s graduating senior class at Stanford.

We’re thrilled to have Raymond join us at the 11th Annual Shorty Awards! Tune in to watch the show LIVE starting at 6:30pm ET on May 5, 2019 on YouTube and Twitter.

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SxSW 2018 Diary - Day 2

Who doesn’t want to hold a baby goat? Day 2 is off to a good start at Viceland’s space, a mixture of marketing genius and prime real estate. It makes me wonder if the people responsible for promoting HBO’s investigative news show attended the same 2016 SxSW talk that I did, We Need More Mischief and Whimsy, because they have nailed it.

In the back of the Viceland bus a DJ is spinning “She’s a Bad Mama Jama” while another DJ mixes it up in the yard–it’s only 10 am. I shoplift one of the free prescription pill bottles filled with Mommy’s Little Helpers (i.e., mints) and make my way to the first session of the day; it’s sunny and a lovely 90 degrees.

Throughout the week I find myself drawn to the stories of strong women leaders. First up is Gayle King’s interview with Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of the online dating site Bumble. I was vaguely aware of Herd’s backstory–she had been a Vice President at Tinder until she left in 2014 over claims of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment, when making such waves was not as supported as it is now in the #MeToo era. Like Esther Perel, she believes relationships are the most important facet of our lives. 

Buy a bigger table. In a male-dominated workspace, women (and minorities) may feel there is only one seat at the table for a token representative, which can lead to female friendly-fire incidents. 

Wolfe Herd said Bumble’s success was not motivated by revenge; she believes that hate spreads hate and love spreads love. Herd, who will celebrate her 30th birthday next year, declined to respond to questions about a $450 million buyout offer from Match.com.

Next on my schedule is Christiane Amanpour, who is promoting her new television series, Sex & Love Around the World; this is one of the speakers I have been most excited to see. Amanpour in December 2017 was named the interim replacement for PBS’s charlie Rose after sexual harassment allegations against him surfaced. Like Wolfe-Herd, Amanpour talked about being the only woman at the table, having a female boss who was not encouraging, and sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as the importance of having supportive male figures/mentors.

The more parity, the healthier the nation. Amanpour notes this worldwide reckoning on gender equality has been a long time coming. “How many times have I been asked what it is like to be a female war correspondent,” she asks with exasperation. She alights briefly on a range of other topics including Macron (the new “It” guy), North Korea, the Crimea, and fake news. In terms of what she has learned in 35 years at CNN, “There is real currency in starting at the bottom and moving up to follow your dream.”

Let’s talk about lunch, which is one of the toughest nuts at SxSW to crack. The 30 minutes in between sessions is not enough time to get to the food truck lot and back or to sit down for a meal in a restaurant. It’s a 20-minute time investment (10-minute line, 10-minute wait for food) for the few food trucks abutting the Austin Convention Center, which is doable if the next session is unpopular, if you have a friend saving you a spot in line, or if you leave a talk during the Q&A. It’s hard to concentrate on the speakers when you are trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from.

Today the 2 pm keynote is in the same room as the 12:30 talk I attend so I don’t want to leave for lunch and give up my seat. My friend scores a bathroom pass, which allows her to skip the line to get back in, so she leaves and returns with cauliflower tacos for us to share from The Peached Tortilla, named one of the top 101 food trucks in the US a few years ago. It is legit; I eat the same lunch–this time without sharing–two more days in a row.

For the Keynote, Ta-Nehisi Coates is being interviewed by his Atlantic Editor-in-chief; his book, Between the World and Me, won the National Book Award in 2015, he is the author of Marvel’s The Black Panther comic book, and will be writing the new Captain America movie. He attributes the success of the Black Panther movie in part to a need by black people to see their experience presented.

Coates talks about being criticized by other black figures, such as Cornell West, for not being an activist. Like Wolfe Herd, he asks, “Do you have to bring someone down to make room for you? Is there only room for one black intellectual in the public space?”

I always want to write angry, with heart. As a writer he tries to interpret a situation objectively, vice persuading others toward a particular course of action, even if he is sympathetic to a particular cause.

He has decided being on social media is not good for him and has permanently abandoned Twitter.

To cope with my FOMO about missing the Westworld Sweetwater set tour, I go to the Westworld Show Runners panel featuring the actors playing Maeve, Delores, Bernard, and Jimmy and the show’s creators. The cast comes across as a family, and attributes their success to it: “This group of individuals wants everyone to succeed and to kick ass; we all take care of each other.”

When asked about how it felt, amid a very macho show setting, that two of the strongest characters are female, Thandie Newton responds with an eye roll: “It feels normal, it feels right.”

When the cast is asked about experiences they draw on to play their characters, Newton cites the women in the DROC that she has worked with as an activist, women who have died (figuratively) over and over again from abuses.

Like the previous speaker, the show’s creators say they do not spend a lot of time on social media.

Did I say the sneak peek at the Westworld Season 2 trailer was the highlight of this session? No, because the highlight was a surprise appearance by Elon Musk!!! It turns out Westworld’s creator’s helped celebrate the Falcon’s recent launch with a promotional trailer depicting a Tesla orbiting space while David Bowie’s Space Oddity plays in the background. So yeah, we watched that, and Musk also talked briefly about what inspired him.

That evening I watch “Chef Flynn,” a documentary about a child prodigy chef. At 15, Flynn appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, and in 2018, at age 19, he opened his first restaurant in New York City. His story is interesting in part for the social commentary about how he was parented and how he is disrupting the food industry’s traditional path to chef stardom. Chef Flynn was on hand, along with the director, to answer questions afterwards as part of the SxSW film festival.

This seems like a good time to plug the Alamo Theater chain for its avocado toast and other vegetarian-friendly menu options, creative ads, and beverage service.

[suzannebyrne]

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young going strong 3 years after she was branded a 'home-wrecker'

Neil Young and Daryl Hannah on the red carpet during the SXSW film debut of her directorial debut film Paradox on March 15, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Jim Bennett/WireImage)

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young unveiled their collaboration — the Netflix movie Paradox — at the South by Southwest festival this week. Of course, they’ve been collaborating in the romance department for over three years now.

On Thursday, Hannah, 57, and Young, 72, debuted their project, which she directed and he starred in, at the Paramount Theatre in Austin. There was no couple photo on the carpet, which we can only assume was a strategic move, but they stood side by side on stage at the venue discussing the film, which he also contributed the music for.

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young at the Paradox premiere at 2018 SXSW on March 15, 2018. (Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW)

During an interview with Yahoo Entertainment at the festival, they openly discussed their romance with Young saying, “We’re very lucky to have found each other. I’m eternally thankful for the opportunity to share my life with her.” He added, “She feels the same.”

The pair of eco-crusaders was joined at SXSW by his son Ben Young, one of Neil’s closest confidantes and tour buddy (see more on their relationship here), so Hannah and Young’s romance must have the approval of at least one family member. When they first got together in 2014 — amid his split from his wife of 36 years and musical collaborator, Pegi — they didn’t seem to have many fans, including Young’s Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young bandmate David Crosby, who publicly branded Hannah a “poisonous predator.” (He later apologized, adding that he thought his comments were off the record.)

Neil Young’s son Ben joined him on the red carpet for the Paradox premiere. The men have a close relationship and Ben, who can’t speak, always accompanies his father on any tours.“I tell Ben everything, and he listens,” Young told the New York Times. (Photo: Jim Bennett/WireImage)

Here, we look at the tricky beginnings of their relationship — it’s not easy being tabloid fodder — and how they have managed to stick together approaching four years later.

August 2013: Hannah, whose dating history included several musicians (including Jackson Browne, Wallflowers keyboardist Rami Jaffee, and, if the gossip is true, Mick Jagger) and one very famous non-musician (John F. Kennedy Jr.), and Young, who was married to Pegi, take a six and a-half-hour road trip, with several others, in his bioelectric 1959 Lincoln. It was related to work they were doing with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and an environmentalist documentary for Greenpeace about the Alberta Tar Sands. (This story was done at the time and described them as “friends.”)

April 2014: Young and Hannah take part in a protest in Washington, D.C. during which they march together with the Cowboy and Indian Alliance and protest the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Cowboy and Indian Alliance — including rock icon Neil Young and actress and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, second from right — march in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, April 26, 2014. (Photo: Pete Marovich/Boomberg)

July 2014: After 36 years of marriage, Neil filed divorce papers to end his second marriage to Pegi Young, who inspired the music icon’s song “Unknown Legend.” They have two children: Ben, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy who’s unable to speak (the pair opened a school for him when they couldn’t find one they liked), and Amber, an artist. Young also has a son, Zeke, from his relationship with the Oscar-nominated actress Carrie Snodgress, who also has CP. No mention was made of Hannah in the filing.

September 2014: Young’s one-time musical partner, David Crosby, confirmed a romance in an interview with the Idaho Statesman — and makes it clear he doesn’t approve. “I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now,” Crosby said. “And that’s karma. He’s gonna get hurt. But I understand why it happened. I’m just sad about it. I’m always sad when I see love tossed in the gutter.”

Hannah and Young were spotted holding hands and kissing while out in the Los Angeles area.

People magazine reported that Young and Hannah had “been dating for months.” A source said, “They’ve taken no effort to even hide it. He recorded a new album a few weeks ago, and she was on Skype the entire time, giving him feedback on every take. He even told people in the studio she was his ‘girlfriend.’” It wasn’t a secret. “They’ve appeared at many, many protest rallies together over the past year,” the insider said. “The fans have known about this for months.”

The tabloids, of course, branded Hannah a “home-wrecker.”

May 2015: David Crosby apologizes — sorta. After admitting that he thought his quotes were off the record, he said on the Howard Stern Show that he was “completely out of line. I have screwed up massively… Where do I get off criticizing her? She’s making Neil happy. I love Neil and I want him happy.” He went on to say, “I was worried that he was going to be taken advantage of. But the truth is that’s not my place to judge.

June 2015: While haters hated, Hannah and Young continued to spend time together, including a romantic trip to Italy in June, which made headlines.

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young go for a romantic walk in Rome on June 27, 2015. (Photo: Agostino Fabio/GC Images)

June 2016: Variety reported that Hannah has sold “her eco-conscious hippie-chic hideaway in the mountains above Malibu” to Young “in an off-market deal for $3.6 million.”

July 2016: In an interview with Rolling Stone, Young said he let Pegi have their home Broken Arrow Ranch in Redwood City, Calif., that he bought in 1970. She resides there with Ben because “all his support systems are there.” Young shared that he’s living in L.A. with Hannah and that she recently threw him a 70th birthday party. He also said that Hannah helped him focus on his health with an organic diet and exercise (Pilates and walking). His new life inspired Earth, a live album featuring environmentally conscious songs.

November 2016: In an interview with Rolling Stone, Pegi had her say. She talked about how Young’s relationship with Hannah around the time of their split made her family tabloid fodder. “It was tough on all of us, for my kids and me,” Pegi said. “Everybody knew what was going on in my family. So we were as ready as we could be for all that. But it was just kind of awful to have it be all over, everywhere.” She also made it clear she wasn’t the one who wanted a divorce. “We were having a rough patch. But I never would’ve thought in a million years we would be getting divorced. So, yeah, there was a bit of a shock value there.” She added that she and her ex have “little contact these days,” but when they ran into each other at an event for their special needs school, it was fine. “Take the high road, that’s my approach,” she said.

February 2017: Pegi told Billboard that she was gratified by Crosby’s comments defending her.

October 2017: Hannah came forward to say she was sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein. She claimed she felt the immediate repercussions of her refusal the next day. (Weinstein denied the allegations.)

March 2018: Hannah and Young brought their passion project (and her directorial debut) Paradox  to SXSW and clearly enjoyed their time together in the spotlight — despite not posing together on the red carpet. Yahoo Entertainment spoke with the pair there about working together.

“I never read the script,’” said Young, who stars in it. “She told me about the story, and so I wanted to see it develop.” He said it was no problem working together (“as artists, we support each other and understand”), and he touched on their high-profile coupling being tabloid fodder. Basically, he didn’t care.

“We didn’t pay any attention to that,” Young said. “It doesn’t matter. We don’t give a s***. We don’t care because they don’t know what they’re talking about. And if they do know what they’re talking about, we still don’t care, but we’re happy for them. It doesn’t matter. What matters is us, not the press.” Though he admitted he was surprised by the reaction of his friends, including Crosby. “When we got together, even some of my good friends were negative about it, and I could never understand it,” he said. “Daryl [is] a wonderful human being, and I’m very lucky to know her. That’s all I was thinking.”

He added, “I’m very lucky. We’re very lucky to have found each other. I’m eternally thankful for the opportunity to share my life with her, and she feels the same.”

So there, haters. So there.

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Hyperallergic: A Wireless Vibration Suit Helps the Deaf “Feel” Music

Deaf actor Russell Harvard with Music: Not Impossible at SXSW 2016

The staccato vibrations from the drumbeat hit me in the wrists. Then the bass rattled my spine as the rock song moved beyond my ears, transforming into a full-body experience — one that could revolutionize concert-going for the deaf and hard of hearing.

I was wearing a prototype of a “wireless ecosystem,” including a technology-stuffed cargo vest and ankle and wrist bands, in a demonstration by the Music: Not Impossible (MNI) project during the Sound Scene festival at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in early July. Developed by Not Impossible Labs to help the deaf “hear” music, the suit translates sounds into a cascade of vibrations, with different instruments registering in different zones across the ankles, wrists, back, or ribcage. After three years of development, a dozen prototype suits have been created and tested at concerts and other events, including the first stop of Lady Gaga’s Dive Bar Tour in Nashville last year and the South by Southwest festival in Austin.

The author wearing a vibration suit

“For the deaf, it’s mind-blowing,” MNI technology director Daniel Belquer told me. “We understand that a live concert isn’t just entertainment. There’s a big social component, and they feel left out.”

In the demonstration, Belquer first used sound with the vibration suits to show how they complement each other. When we were told to pretend to dive into a pool, I heard a splash and felt ripples across my chest. During a meditative segment, subtle soothing vibrations spread across my body to the sound of chimes and lapping waves. While the suits may heighten concert experiences for the hearing, the real goal is to use only vibrations in order to feel rather than hear music. After playing one rock song with the sound, Belquer devised a test. He played only the vibrations of a song through the suits and asked our group to identify the song, providing one hint, that the song was by a 1980s stadium-rock band. The vibrations, with heavy bass and drumbeats, stumped everyone in my group, but it took a woman in a previous demonstration less than 10 seconds to nail the song as “Back in Black” by AC/DC. “That’s a record,” Belquer said about her quick response.

Daniel Belquer leading the demonstration at the Hirshhorn

The vibration suits were developed with input from deaf people, including deaf singer Mandy Harvey, who received a standing ovation for her performance on America’s Got Talent, in which she took off her shoes so she could feel the vibrations of her voice and guitar through the floor. After trying the vibration suit, Harvey said it was “cool and beautiful” to feel different musical vibrations that weren’t all muddled together.

Deaf people sometimes stand close to speakers or squeeze a balloon to feel vibrations during a concert. I tried using a balloon after having worn the vibration suit, but the mild thumps from the music felt roughly the same for all instruments, and it would be awkward carry a balloon around during a concert. Belquer said the drumbeats had been moved to the wristbands because concert goers often throw their arms in the air during heavy drumbeats.

Launched in 2009, Not Impossible Labs has focused on innovations in health, mobility, and communication. Its first project, Eyewriter, which is included in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, is an inexpensive open-source device that lets paralyzed people communicate by simply moving their eyes. It was developed to help Los Angeles graffiti artist Tony “TEMPT ONE” Quan create art again after he was paralyzed by ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), and it was named one of Time magazine’s top 50 inventions in 2010. The lab also developed the first 3D-printed prosthetic arm to help amputees in war-torn South Sudan.

Katie Couric, Mick Ebeling (founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs), Mandy Harvey (deaf singer), Daniel Belquer (Not Impossible’s Director of Technology), and an ASL translator at the Labs in Venice Beach, CA (2015)

Besides helping the deaf, there are other potential applications for the vibration suits, including heightening musical experiences for those who can hear and augmenting virtual-reality video games. The suits don’t have a trademarked name yet, but Belquer said the company is seeking funding from investors and company sponsorships, with plans to sell a complete suit for $350 to $500 when the trials are completed. Deaf writer-director Chase Burton also is creating a tactile “soundtrack” using the suits for an upcoming short film titled “Mather.”

After 15 minutes in the suit, I felt slightly dizzy, like I was experiencing a mild case of carsickness without the nausea. The suit’s vibrations are powerful, transferring the ethereal beauty of music from one sense to another via direct sensations that pulsate through your body. I can only imagine what it would be like for a deaf person to feel music with this technology for the first time, but I hope to see many of them suited up and partying on the dance floor soon.

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  The 31st annual SXSW (South by Southwest) was one for the books.  Since its peak in 2014 the festival has scaled back and it looks good on them.  Some big names came this year too but we won’t mention any (though you may find a photo or two).  Our focus is on the new, upcoming artists that made this SXSW fantastic!  Over 1700 artists descended on Austin March 10-19 in hopes of becoming the new buzz act of the festival.

Fans seeking to discover new music were met by manageable lines and unique experiences.  Those seeking to see a huge touring artist in more intimate venues were meet long lines or venues at capacity as expected.  This is fine when a venue has one stage but does not work as well when superstar is performing outside and there is no way to get in to support the indie artist performing to an empty room inside the same venue.

SXSW official showcases are where it is really at.  The venues are relatively close together so it’s easy to hit several in the same night.  The showcases maybe be in venues that normally would not be on the top live music venues for Austin but that doesn’t take away from the experience.  You can walk into most showcases with a badge or Music Wristband.  If you don’t have official credentials you can normally join in for under $10. If parking yourself in one place is more your style, that works too.  Official showcases are curated so that you can have a great time at a single venue all night.  Our favorite showcase was the official nerdcore showcase.

The shift to a scaled back SXSW this year was most noticeable with some of the biggest parties shrinking their footprint.  Spotify’s party went from a huge parking lot and large format stage in 2016 to an invite only house. The Fader also reduced their footprint to a much more intimate event going from a few thousand capacity down to about an invite only event that capped at around 400 people.  Illroots had stated that the Illmore would not return in 2017. It was no surprise when it didn’t appear. Lastly, Hype Machine’s Hype Hotel didn’t even show-up in any capacity.

There were still plenty of day parties to attend.  A few that we checked out were Flood Magazine’s Flood Fest, The Best Lil’ Big Fest, Culture Collide parties on Rainey, Quantum Collective’s SW Invasion, Do 512 and Covert Curiosity’s Strange Brew, KGSR Live Morning Broadcasts at the W, Independence Brewing and Lagunitas Brewing Joint Session/Bugout parties and the Wild Honey Pie’s Beehive event.  All these parties had phenomenal artists and short lines if you arrived early enough.

SXSW converged all the conferences this year (Film, Interactive, and Music) by allowing badge holders to attend all three.  Capital One is led the way during Interactive week with its nightly concerts at the Capital One House at Antone’s. They did an awesome job curating lineups and providing up and coming bands the opportunity to play on the same bill as superstars. In the best way to honor Austin, a local band appeared on stage each night. The grand finale was an all Austin lineup featuring A Giant Dog, Matt Vasquez (Delta Spirit) and Black Joe Louis!  In past years Samsung has pulled out all the stops by bringing the biggest names in the industry.  This year we thought they were going to skip the festival altogether but at the last minute they announced rap legend would be playing in a very small venue. Dell brought some great music to its Dell Experience stage.

Below find some of the artists that stood out to us this year, the buzz acts that SXSW is all about!

Alice Jemima – wooed the crowd with multi-layered heavenly pop jems Buggsy – melted the mic with rapid fire grime rhymes Calliope Musicals – spread love and hope with giant props, confetti, lasers and phenomenal folk rock Diet Cig – provided nonstop high energy moves and outstanding rock music Gabriel Royal – sweet baroque pop melodies and beautiful vocals enthralled the crowd IDLES – melted faces with unabashed British punk rock JAIN – wowed crowds with breathtaking French pop Joywave  – tore down the Capital One House with unique and catchy electro-pop Matt Maeson – performed amazing alternative rock perfection MC Frontalot – dropped the nerdiest of nerd bars in his one of a kind style New Politics – swung from the rafters providing a powerful rock spectacular Quiet Company – won over new fans with pure Austin rock n roll QUIX – had the crowd jumping to his New Zealand trap EDM bangers Rainbow Kitten Surprise – surprised the hell out of us with catchy indie rock tunes and exceptional dance moves San Fermin – brought the party with quintessential baroque pop The Accidentals – played the most effervescent folk rock sets a hotel lobby has ever seen TINNAROSE – provided harmonies and melodies so beautiful they brought a tear to the eye Tunde Olaniran – preformed astonishingly fresh hip hop and brought their all-inclusive message of love and acceptance Weaves – destroyed the stage with eclectic and wild indie rock Yoke Lore – blew the roof off a rooftop performing electro-banjo-indie-pop fire

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DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk

Monthly First Thursday Gallery Walk is Back on Thursday, February 2 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM 

Join us during DUMBO’s monthly First Thursday Gallery Walk at NYFA Gallery for two special performances in conjunction with the exhibition Borderless: In Residence. Beginning at 7:00 PM, eteam (Fellows in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ‘16) will perform an illustrated lecture about the art of concealment, the politics of hiding, the power of absence, and more. Vocalist, writer, and artist Joseph Keckler (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work ‘12) will perform two short music and text-based works in the gallery space immediately following. One is a new piece about New Year’s Eves, midnights, and the 2012 apocalypse that didn’t occur. Stay afterwards to view the exhibition Borderless: In Residence during NYFA’s extended hours. 

DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk February Walk: Thursday, February 2, 2017 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Performances: 7:00 PM and 7:30 PM Exhibition Dates: November 3, 2016 - March 10, 2017  Location: NYFA Gallery, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Cost: Free and open to the public

For a full list of participating galleries in the DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk, please visit the event website.

Bios:

Since 2001, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) has trafficked in transience. At the intersection of relational aesthetics, the Internet and land art, eteam coordinates collective happenings and conceptual transactions between the earthly plane and the realms of the interweb, often reconstructed in hypnotic video work, radio plays, or more recently novellas and novels. Their projects have been featured at venues and festivals including MoMA PS1, New York; mumok, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; transmediale, Berlin; and Biennale of Moving Images, Geneva; among many others. They have received grants from Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, Creative Capital, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and were residents at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo, and The MacDowell Colony. 

Joseph Keckler is a vocalist, writer, and artist whose work often combines autobiography, humor, and classical themes. Awards include: a Creative Capital Award in Performing Arts, a 2012 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, a Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art grant, and a Village Voice Award for “Best Downtown Performance Artist.” He has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Times Square Arts, and University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. Recent performance venues include: BAM, SXSW, Dixon Place, Miami Art Basel, and Centre Pompidou. His work has been featured on WNYC’s Soundcheck and BBC America. Last year he made his off-broadway debut at Lincoln Center in Dave Malloy’s Preludes. Joseph occasionally writes about contemporary art for VICE and other publications. He is currently finishing an album and developing “Let Me Die,” a performance piece involving operatic death scenes. A collection of his writing is forthcoming from Turtle Point Press.

Borderless: In Residence

Borderless: In Residence features artists who have participated in NYFA’s national and international residency programs through partnerships with Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of Arts in London, Basil Alkazzi Artist-in-Residence, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, the Jamaican Center for Arts and Learning, Times Square Alliance, the Sheldon Museum, Flux Factory, and the Node Center for Curatorial Studies.

Exhibiting artists include: Golnar Adili (NYFA in Residence at Clemente Soto Velez) Sonya Blesofsky (NYFA in Residence at Clemente Soto Velez) Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen (International Composers Exchange Program) Faith Holland (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Residence) Elana Katz (Roger Smith Residence) Joseph Keckler (NYFA in Residence at Clemente Soto Velez) Kimia Kline (Basil Alkazzi Artist-in-Residence) Hadi Nasiri (Sharing Perspectives Residency) Roxa Smith (Basil Alkazzi Artist-in-Residence) Chin Chih Yang (Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence)

Find out more about NYFA’s Curatorial Services for organizations by clicking here. Sign up for NYFA’s bi-weekly newsletter by clicking here to keep up to date with grant and program deadlines, professional development workshops, and exhibition openings.

Images, from top: eteam (Fellows in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ‘16), Waypoint, Follow, Orbit, Focus, Track, Pan, 2016; eteam (Fellows in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ‘16; Finalists in Video/Film ‘12), Photo Credit: eteam; detail Joseph Keckler (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work ‘12), Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Artist; Installation shot of Borderless: In Residence, Photo Credit: Jacque Donaldson.

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Austin is the state capital of Texas and is known as the live-music capital of the world. Best known scenes held here annually include the ACL Fest and the SXSW which feature live music played by a variety of artists ranging from blues to country, soul, hip hop to rock & roll. 

There are plenty of things to do and places to visit, so it’s best if you prepare your personal bucket list ahead of time to make the most out of it. Or check out the Austin Insider Guide for 2016/2017. 

Austin weather averages between 90 to 100 most summer days and goes down to 60 - 70 after October. In winter, the temperature typically never goes lower than 40 °F. So your best “Keep Austin Weird” shirt and a pair of jeans will never go out of fashion, and will always be in season All-Year-Round. 

Why “Keep Austin Weird”, you say? Smithsonian & TIME may have previously shared their views on this, although it all boils down to SLATE’s words of its definitive history: 

“About 15 years ago, an independent bookseller in Texas went to battle against the specter of mega-bookstore invasion. His weapon of choice was something a purveyor of books knew best: a word. And the word was weird.KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD was coined by the librarian Red Wassenich while on the phone with a local radio station. But the phrase was adopted when Steve Bercu, owner of the Austin, Texas, bookstore Book People, needed a slogan to rally objection to a planned Borders store a few blocks away. Bercu convinced John Kunz, the owner of nearby Waterloo Records, to join the keep-it-local cause. They printed 5,000 bumper stickers urging citizens to KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD and flanked the message with their business logos. The stickers flew off the shelves. And the Borders bookstore was never built in downtown Austin.” 

And if you have checked the Austin’s Insider Guide; The Austin Bucket List; and AustinTexas.org and still undecided to “what where and when”, then check out this mini favorite to do list from an Austin local to inspire some ideas depending on your #mood/ #trip:

#History:

*Visit the Texas State Capitol building. Parking is free on weekends

Bullock Texas Museum

#Experiences:

*Watch a movie at Alamo Drafthouse. This is like ArcLight but you can actually order real food in your seats.

*Watch show or movie at the Paramount. Check the website for any acts coming to town

Shop at the Domain. This place reminds me of Bonifacio Global City. High-end Shops, restaurants and bars. Rock Rose street is a new hip spot. For a good hang-out place you can try Punch bowl Social. They have group activities like bowling, pool, darts etc.

*Watch a show at Stubbs, Moody Theatre-ACL Live. Austin is known for being the Live Music Capital of the World so there are a lot of bands playing around town.

Watch a show at Esther’s Follies (Haven’t actually seen the show but everyone recommends it)

*6th street. This is the equivalent of Bourbon street in New Orleans. Full of Bars and Pubs. It’s worth a stroll through during weekend nights to catch the madness. You’ll catch mostly college kids.

*Rainey Street. This is more where the young professionals hang out on weekend nights. It’s got nice bars and restaurants.

Take a hop on hop off bus tour of the city. You don’t have to do this if you have your own car.

*Walk along South Congress (SOCO District) then grab a bite at the many awesome restaurants along this route - Home Slice (Pizza), HopDoddy’s, Amy’s (Icecream). Visit novelty stores like Lucy in the Sky. Spot all the famous Murals.

South Lamar is another trendy stretch for restaurants. Favorites: Shake Shack, Alamo Drafthouse, Ramen Tatsuya, SnoozeAM(breakfast), UCHIKO etc.

Two step Cowboy Dancing at Broken Spoke

#ScenicViews

Catch the sunset at the following spots:

On a boat cruise - http://www.capitalcruises.com/bat-watching/  This is my favorite way to view the bats. The cruise takes off near the Hyatt hotel and you are given a brief tour of the Austin skyline before getting near the Congress Bridge in prime position to catch the Austin Bats fly out at sunset.

Under the congress bridge. People gather under the congress bridge before sundown to wait for the bat’s to emerge. - Parking might be an issue so come early

On a kayak, paddle board. You can rent a kayak or paddle board and make your way under the bridge at sunset.

On the congress bridge (beware of bat droppings). For a different and more up close angle with the bats you can join the other curious tourists on the Congress Bridge and wait for the bats to fly out. Just beware that they’ll be flying up from right below you.

#SeasonalActivities

*Outdoor Movies at the Long Center. This happens only in Summer but people gather there at sundown to catch free movies and try the food trucks (Summer-July-August)

*Austin City Limits Music Festival (August). Huge Music Scene. Zilker Park will have 6 main stages with various bands booked for 2 weekends. Our own Coachella/Lollapalooza

*South By South West Film, Music and Interactive Festival (March)

*Musical at the Park. This is free and there’s usually one featured musical every summer season.

Rodeo Austin. There’s a mini-carnival next to the actual Rodeo so you can take your kids there or enjoy carnival food and rides before the show.

*Trail of Lights. Every Christmas Zilker Park is decked out in lights synced to Christmas Carols.

So why don’t you check it out and keep it weird and stay in an Austiner’s pad from AirBnb, here… take a $20 off from me: www.airbnb.com/c/cjv4 

ENJOY!!!! 

*Video Credits to the Austin, Texas Youtube channel 

*favorite to do list ~ contributed by @gracielou105, Austin Texas