#DETSW2019 , Detroit Startup Week 2019, was phenomenal; a community that I was honored to be part of. Not only a great collection of professional and enthusiastic DOERS, the event had the coolest background in the world: Motown, 2019 stylee...
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And, if you, or anyone you know, will be in San Francisco on June 28th, there is this: Tech in the Tenderloin. A great bunch of kids will be there. And, it will be the world premiere of Bubiko Foodtour, the flagship character of my AR startup. Oh yes, Novaby, a fantastic 3D model making company will be there, as well as Niantic, who made Pokemon Go and the just-released Harry Potter AR game! #whenharrymetbubi
Phil Kanaby at Altimetrik, as part of Detroit Startup Week 2019. The word on the street is that Altimetrik is soon going to be hosting a talk about augmented reality, a talk that will likely touch upon theoretical AR/AV mashups! (AR= augmented reality, AV =autonomous vehicles)
The next post will be going up within the next couple of days. Besides the excitement of Detroit Startup Week, I will share a photo or two from my FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE!
I'm telling myself that this is a self-portraiture/conceptual art/writing exercise. I do not stand nextto celebrities very often; almost never am I photographed with them. SXSW was incredibly brilliant (Cliche police! Arrest that man!), but it was also "very interesting" financially. If this post brings people to my blog and I can sell some books or connect with some funds for my AR startup and/or VR movies (here and here), then I guess this is OK. And if any galleries poke around this blog, that might be good.
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I am listening to this. I discovered them because of Orions Belte. I knew nothing about OB before they walked onto the stage. The thrill of unexpectedly discovering a great live performance is extremely rare, at least for me. This is a very nice recording of Joe Frazier, but very different from what I experienced that night in Austin.... imagine being dragged to a karaoke night and discovering
PS. FWIW: One afternoon at SXSW, I found myself in a nearly empty room with a business partner of Roger McNamee, who wrote a book about Facebook.
I gave McNamee's business partner one of the small goofy pieces of paper I was passing out during SXSW, said "Low tech, high art" and walked away. So there ya go.
Carlos Trujillo
We met on the train, talked, went to his show that was part of a Columbian music showcase. Lucky, lucky. (His version of a Paul McCartney/Kraftwerk song!) More photos of Pablo and more on this SXSW music blog post.
Guy Kawasaki, hosting an event at the Mercedes Media Lounge. Complete surprise: the decision to attend SXSW was extremely last minute and the first day we had a basic schedule, but discovered many events by chance, like this one. Guy was also releasing a book, Wise Guy. I thanked him for his work on his APE book, APE meaning Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, which I highly recommend to all independent writers.
Not only was SXSW life-changing, almost across from the Convention Center was the O. Henry Museum! O. Henry is one of my favorite writers. One example: A Municipal Report. Another favorite is about a painter who creates portraits that can reveal the soul of the sitter; he sees people in their "true light". I cannot find the name of the story at the moment.That goofy paper again, this time held by David Mims. David bought a one way ticket: Detroit to Austin. Respect.
Spontaneity/unpredictability/destiny/Southby synchronicity.. whatever you want to call it... The first night, we're exhausted. But still I am passing out the goofy pieces of paper. I see a guy using a phone on a stick; probably talking to a friend or it's a business call or something. I wait until he's done, then slip him the goofy piece of paper. EXCEPT that he is still talking to someone. I am embarrassed, pull away. Instead he waves me into the camera and asks me to say hi. Suddenly I am talking to two people in Korea-- two students who are studying VR filmmaking! I make VR films! We talk about screen writing, and I mention my experiences with Robert McKee... and one of the students holds up the book on his desk: Story, by Robert McKee. I say wow, everyone else says the Korean equivalent of wow. The man next to me, Chui Shin is involved with a Korean VR festival.He gives me some bread as he is talking to the students and says "wow" a lot. He says I'm an angel; I say no but the students say yes. Anyway, I head toward the bathroom but come back one minute later... with an angel.
So, then, five minutes after the VR/angel incident...who comes by but Leonard Maltin, whom I do not know. But he's in a great mood and there is a friendly little crowd and we end up getting our photos taken with him. Only later did I learn who he is.
So... for quite a few years, I have wanted to write about the cover of the Soldier album, by Iggy Pop. It is a gem, a stick of dynamite made of stencils and spray paint. He's wearing wild eyeliner and a tee shirt. Every time I searched for information related to that studio shot, the trail led to a video of Dogfood on Youtube. I write about photography; and that cover, shot in 1979, is spectacular on many levels: technique, the times and everything else. I wanted to research and do a blog post about it. I'd research this topic every few years.
So... we're standing on the corner on a beautiful Sunday morning, our plan being to go to the Samsung exhibition again. Mari Goround stops and points to a sign. It is a talk about "screens"(video here), with a collection of VR projects upstairs. The venue is the beautiful hotel right in front of us. We go in. It starts in five minutes. Open bar. We mingle. The speakers are all experts and I am excited that we have discovered this. It starts. One of the speakers, right off the bat, says his name and that he did the art direction for the Soldier album by Iggy Pop. His name is Alex McDowell. A very big deal in Hollywood (Minority Report, Fight Club +++) he is now BUILDING WORLDS. But yeah...Soldier.
Quiet and small in public, a huge force in my life: Sayuri Okayama
Stephen Black with Barry Black, Chief Scientist at Black Ranger Software. We connected immediately, even before we discovered we share the same last name. Barry told me that he'd traced the history of the Blacks, and got as far back as Belgium. I looked at a basic genealogy map once, and saw that there are/were Blacks on both sides of the Irish Sea. Regardless of my past, I am very thankful for the present, and excited about the future.
If you are interested in cosplay, you may like these photos from a Hong Kong event. camera: iPhone 6s.
A charming woman whose name and character I did not get. If you happen to know her, or any of teh other cosplayers, kindly share this link with them. or just add the name of the character in the comments section. Thank you!
This photo gallery will soon be supplemented by posts about SXSW music experiences, food experience and tech experiences like AR, VR and gaming. Bubiko has some posts about SXSW on Instagram.
