I’m in Austin for the next few days at SXSW Interactive. The wifi and cell networks here are absolutely terrible, but I’ll try to keep in touch whenever I can find a proper pipe.
Some highlights so far (you can see all the Austin photos on my Flickr):
Austin Airport
My hotel.
First session of the day.
....or did it?
…and how could I not visit THE MUSEUM OF THE WEIRD?
restraint.org is a loose collection of writing, links, ravings, photos, news, fiction, and bad poetry by Jairus Khan. This website has been here (off and on) for ten years or so, and was around in various other forms for three or four years before that.
I spend most of my off-hours working (in Ottawa, Canada) to promote underground arts and media, and trying to keep independent music from being smothered by an anachronism popularly known as ‘the industry’. I DJ weekly, promote concerts/festivals regularly, make beep-beep noises in an industrial-metal band, and release CC-licensed albums for my industrial-slash-experimental-electronic project Ad·ver·sary, which sounds something like robots fucking to My Bloody Valentine.
When I’m not working with, promoting, listening to, or writing music, I design very angry websites, flyers, book jackets, and the sort for various arts projects. I supplement my music/design income (roughly enough to buy a pocketful of buttons a month) by developing counter-hacking courses and moonlighting as a web coordinator for the man.
I also bake very tasty cookies.
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if the plans we want work out for next year you’ll have to take me to see local ‘culture’ like the museum of the weird; deal?
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PS missing you…
hahaha, the museum of weird sounds like a blast, and i’m kindly asking you to bring back the “damn good food” sign so i can put it in my kitchen. :)