Hugh MacLeod and Stowe Boyd may not appreciate the powers of the accordion, but Robert Scoble does! Scoble, who is one of my tech evangelist role models, respects the squeezebox and can still party with the best of ’em. The photo below certainly isn’t a good one of me, but I’ll share it anyway since it’s me and Scoble having a good time at the Mooseknuckles bar on Austin’s 6th street.
Scoble and me: Party! Whoo!
Inspired by the trainwreck of a Q&A session with Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and the self–destructing Sarah Lacy, Jay Goldman created a single-serving site called KickedOffTheNet.com that holds this single image:
Hugh “gapingvoid” MacLeod said on Twitter: “The accordian guy just turned up. Luckily I remembered to bring my shotgun.” Stowe Boyd concurs.
You can’t buy publicity like this, people!
Master Chief feels the accordion love!
A couple of photos of people who wanted to try on the accordion:
Photo by Yours Truly.
Photo by Yours Truly.
Photo by Yours Truly.
Here’s a group hug after David Crow’s core conversation session, Startup or Sellout: Should I Stay or Should I Go?:
Phot taken by “whatnot”.
Click the photo to see the original on its Flickr page.
That’s Jeremy Wright on the left, me in the middle and David on the right.
My thanks to Rannie and MJ, who rescued me from an hour-long registration line and fast-tracked me so that they could have me perform the opening and closing number for their panel discussion titled How to Rawk SxSW, a guide for first-timers that show them how to make the most of their South by Southwest experience. After all these years, the accordion still opens all kinds of doors.
Here are the panelists from How to Rawk SxSW:
Photo by Yours Truly.
Here’s a photo that one “armiller” took of me playing the opening number, You Shook Me All Night Long:
Photo by armiller. Click the photo to see the photo on its Flickr page.
And by popular demand (which means Rannie), here I am playing the closing number, Baby One More Time:
Photo by armiller. Click the photo to see the photo on its Flickr page.
Here’s MJ posing with the bottle of bourbon that the panelists drank during their session:
Photo by Yours Truly.