Today there was a Tuttle meetup at 12 where the Brits came together. There’s a pretty big contingent here – prob a good few hundred of us. Someone decided we should do our own panel in one of the rooms that wasn’t being used so at 2pm we did.
We’re now about halfway through Interactive and the edges are starting to fray. For the Brits this seems to be manifesting in an intollerance of awesomeness and the inherent back-slapping nature of events like this. I personally think being in a self-congratulatory bubble for a few days isn’t necessarily a bad thing, recharging the optimism batteries before going back to the real world, but culturally we’re really not used to it. So when the tiredness hits we bite back. And we did.
I’m not going to try and summarise the panel – that would be impossible – but it was frivolous, offensive, passionate, self-indulgent and very very funny. Most panels here have a hashtag which the audience use to communicate on Twitter. We used #kebab and got it to trend. That was awesome.
There are videos out there. I’ll find them later.
It’s going to happen again tomorrow and while I don’t think it’ll quite be the same it’ll hopefully be another useful laxative for the exhausted Brits and, you never know, might even become a permanent fixture at future SXSW’s.
Awesome.