April 2, 2009

Best of SXSW, Part 2

Filed under: News, Team Popcuts out in the world — hannes @ 2:27 pm

Welcome back to our second installment of Best of SXSW, our roundup of cool people we met in Austin!

After Accelerator, we celebrated for a bit at Habana. Only, I had no idea what anything on the menu was, so we kept changing our orders quite a bit. Luckily, we had Molly Ryan as our waiter. She didn’t care, and demonstrated extreme patience with the SXSW crowd.

Molly Ryan: Extreme Patience

So Molly was one of the first to receive an award, the Popcuts Award for Extreme Patience!

One of the first shows we saw at SXSW Music was Themselves at the Red Seven. Fun stuff. Outside, we met a couple of pretty serious media people. For instance, music blogger Dave Evans, who was wearing a camera that could easily hold three cans of PBR.

Dave Evans: Largest Camera

So Dave earned the Largest Camera award.

On Wednesday morning, we had coffee with Alexis from Reddit. And we couldn’t help but notice this awesome hot dog hat he was wearing.

Alexis Ohanian: Best Hat

So the award for Best Hat goes to Alexis! Congratulations.

Later that night, we headed over to Tiniest Bar in Texas, which quickly also became our favorite bar in Texas. Not only did we love the setup: a tiny shack with an outdoor area crammed between condo skyscrapers popping up everywhere around. We also loved some of the Southern electro bands that later played there: Roy G And The Biv from Denton, Texas, Culture Prophet from North Carolina, and Glasnost from Houston.

In the audience, we met Arriel. When he first bragged about his dancing skills, we didn’t believe him and dared him to a dance-off.

Arriel B.: Rocking Everyone\'s Face Off

But it turned out he wasn’t lying. To the contrary – Arriel sure did rock everyone’s face off. So the Popcuts Award for Rocking Everyone’s Face Off goes to Arriel. Well done!

And one more outfit award: When we visited the Whole Foods flagship store in Austin, we spotted Trixie at the salad bar and noticed her awesome cowboy boots. We tracked her down in front of the store and handed her the award for Best Cowboy Boots. She was excited!

Best Cowboy boots:

That’s it for today. We’ll be back with more Best of SXSW this weekend. Enjoy your day!

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