on the road to SXSW

Back in San Francisco

We arrived back in San Francisco, will post more in the next few days after sorting through the 40...

Mar 31st

Zion National Park

We went to Zion National Park yesterday, and spent the night there. Playing Drone Zone and watched...

Mar 27th

Lake Powell

Mar 26th

Monument Valley and Page, Arizona

Last night we arrived in Page, AZ, on the shores of Lake Powell. We arrived here for sunset...

Mar 26th

Four Corners of the US. Where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and...

Mar 25th

Farmington, NM

There is something cool about seeing towns you never even knew existed. Last night we ended up in a...

Mar 25th

On the way to Farmington, NM.

Mar 25th

After leaving Santa Fe, we went north on some small roads to...

Mar 25th

“Back on historic Route 66, spending the night in Santa Fe,...”

Mar 24th

Sudan, Texas. Some ruined houses around, including this one...

Mar 24th

Successfully made it out of Texas with only one brush with...

Mar 23rd

Highway 84 west about 45 miles out of Lubbock, TX.

Mar 23rd

Lubbock, TX

We departed Austin this morning, drove most of the day until we made it to Lubbock, TX. Not much...

Mar 23rd

“One final night of SXSW Music. We depart Austin tomorrow.”

Mar 22nd

Saturday Night Picks

Rusty’s picks for this evening at SXSW: 8pm Nosaj Thing at Speakeasy (Congress between 4th...

Mar 21st

Great panel on music licensing

I’m in the “Is Collective Licensing for P2P File Sharing a Future Source of Income for...

Mar 21st

The Scene on Sixth Street. The city closes much of Sixth to...

Mar 21st

Tori Amos preforming Thursday night, March 19th, at the...

Mar 20th

Ulrich Schnauss performing at Elysium

Ulrich Schnauss brought out two guitarists for his “Laptop” performance, which really...

Mar 20th

Most of crew that put on the Bay Area Takeover even at...

Mar 20th

Electro-rockers “The Frail” plays to a packed...

Mar 20th

The Union Trade performs at The Bay Area Takeover during...

Mar 20th

“Two Sheds” perform at the Bay Area Takeover at...

Mar 20th

By 1 PM, the place was packed!  This is just the front area;...

Mar 19th

SomaFM Schwag. We gave away 250 buttons and about 300...

Mar 19th

Bay area takeover just started.

Mar 19th

“It’s unbelievable how many people are ditching work to...”

Mar 19th

Ian McCulloch on vocals, Echo and the Bunnymen at...

Mar 19th

Ulrich Schnauss, The Egg

Ulrich Schnauss did a great set tonight. He had a couple guitarists join him for a few of the...

Mar 19th

Juliette Lewis performs at Emo’s, opening for Echo and...

Mar 19th

SXSW Choices tonight

Rusty’s picks for tonight: 8:00 PM  Ulrich Schnauss at Elysium 9:00 PM  We Are Standard at...

Mar 19th

A sign you don’t see too many places…

Mar 18th

Photo from todays panel, “Rewriting the DMCA”....

Mar 18th

SXSW Sessions: Bruce Sterling hands out copies of his book...

Mar 17th

SXSW Sessions:  Bruce Sterling simultaneously reminisces...

Mar 17th

Merin chatting with Bruce Sterling (and Bruce’s...

Mar 17th

RIP: a Remix Manifesto

I was really looking forward to seeing Brett Gaylor’s new film, but ended up being very...

Mar 16th

SXSW Sessions: Robert Rodriguez (director of Sin City,...

Mar 16th

Rip: A Remix Manifesto

Going to see the premiere of “Rip: A Remix Manifesto”, a documentary on copyright and...

Mar 16th

"New Think for Old Publishers" Panel

There have been a lot of panels discussing the future of “Old Media”. It’s a topic...

Mar 16th

The Nokia entrepreneur lounge, on the rooftop of Fogo de...

Mar 16th

The sun has finally come out in Austin.

Mar 16th

A fun panel - the writer/director and cast of “I love you,...

Mar 15th

There are 3 parts to SXSW:  Interactive (web/internet stuff); Film (both very indie...

Mar 14th

Friday SXSW Interactive Panels

Went to see Dan Willis from Sapient talk about “Everything You Know About Web Design Is...

Mar 14th

SXSW Registration

We checked in to the hotel, dumped our bags, and then headed over to the convention center to pick...

Mar 13th

“We have arrived in Austin. Yay!”

Mar 13th

Remembering the Alamo

Went to see the Alamo after lunch along the river walk.  Didn’t realize it was right in the...

Mar 13th

River walk. San Antonio, TX. We stopped for a late lunch....

Mar 12th

“Hello Del Rio, Texas. 20+ Spanish FM stations. Two English....”

Mar 12th

Earlier today, on the road outside Marathon, TX. The road is...

Mar 12th

“This is an amazing trip. We literally never know what is...”

Mar 12th

Langtry. Near the Mexico border. A town dating back to the...

Mar 12th

Langtry. Near the Mexico border. A town dating back to the...

Mar 12th

Langtry. Near the Mexico border. A town dating back to the...

Mar 12th

Its 9:05pm in Marfa, TX

After a long day driving on only breakfast and snacks, and we’re starved. Five minutes...

Mar 11th

Carlsbad Caverns

Pros: The biggest cave you’ll ever see. Feels like the center of the earth. Lots of phallic...

Mar 11th

The cemetery in Hope, NM.  Insert dumb quote about...

Mar 11th

Departing Alamogordo

Departing Alamogordo, New Mexico. Didn’t drive too long yesterday. After daylight savings time...

Mar 10th

“Here in Alamogordo, NM, didn’t make it to Roswell...”

Mar 10th

This place is strange

Granted we didn’t drive up and down every street, but Alamogordo has the feel of a town with...

Mar 10th

White Sands National Monument. White gypsum dunes. White...

Mar 10th

White Sands National Monument

It was a nice drive - first along the Rio Grande river, than across a wide rolling plain with cows...

Mar 10th

White Sands National Monument.  Photo by Merin.

Mar 10th

Rusty stands in the middle of a dune in the White Sands...

Mar 10th

Cruising Downtown Albuquerque

They still go cruising on historic Route 66 on Sunday nights in Albuquerque NM. Best sighting: Chevy...

Mar 9th

Gallup to Albuquerque via Sky City

Boot Liquor was the definite music of choice from the way out of Gallup. The pickup next to us had...

Mar 9th

Leaving Gallup

Departed Gallup this morning, after spending the night in the funky, retro El Rancho hotel. We got a...

Mar 8th

“Gallup, NM. Secret agent streaming on my iPhone here at the...”

Mar 8th

Painted Desert. A landscape made for Drone Zone. (Rusty on...

Mar 8th

Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Gallup

A few miles out of the grand canyon park and the landscape turns from pine trees to full on desert,...

Mar 8th

“SomaFM iphone streaming coverage on 40 out from Flagstaff...”

Mar 8th

“This Canyon is Really Big!”

Mar 7th

The Grand Canyon at sunset.

Mar 7th

Rusty at the Grand Canyon, a bit before sunset.

Mar 7th

At the Grand Canyon

We made it to Grand Canyon for sunset. It will be fun to see how different the canyon looks...

Mar 7th

An old restaurant just east of Amboy on old Route 66.

Mar 7th

Old Route 66

Today we drove old route 66 through old towns. We didn’t have time to adequately explore all...

Mar 7th

Beautiful sky off highway 99 north of Bakersfield.

Mar 7th

Nice old sign of a motel long past its heyday.  Needles, CA...

Mar 7th

Barstow at Night

One of our (lame) guidebooks said there was no where to eat in Barstow. Not true! Granted there were...

Mar 6th

At Bakersfield, we started to head east. The hills there are...

Mar 6th

San Francisco to Barstow

We really had good luck on our first day. It could have been a boring drive (that we’ve done...

Mar 5th

Off to SXSW

We’re heading off on a slightly long road trip to SXSW.  We’re starting off from San...

Mar 5th