South X Southwest 2011: Day Three

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Published on Friday, 11 March 2011 18:55

Written by Eric Lurio

Day Three: I took the wrong bus, and wound up somewhere in the U. of Texas campus. I then started to wander around the convention center, where I began talking to people, mostly about the interactive section, which is where a bunch of website constructors get together and talk about the latest gadgets. They really didn’t have much on their minds besides, parties, money and how to make it, and a fellow who had the platinum badge (it gets you everywhere) told me how the music industry is almost dead and soon there’s going to be nothing left except MP3s and self-published specialty vinyl.

I went to the filmmakers lounge and ate the bagels and drank the coffee. They told me not to do it anymore, but let me have seconds nonetheless. Then there’s the SXExpress, where one can get special passes to get in ahead of everyone else (except those who were in front of the SxExpress line). I got the ones I wanted. I could get four, but since this is the first day of the actual festival, there’s only time for two.

The press lounge is rather small for this year, and may not be available to us on the film side when the interactive part is finished. That’s what happened last year and it really sucked. That’s traditional. Not good.

Having gotten the express tickets, I had to wait on line for Source Code anyway. It started a bit late, as these things always do. The film wasn’t something particularly original. There was a TV series called Seven Days back in the ‘90s, not to mention Quantum Leap, Groundhog Day and the movie Groundhog Day ripped off.

That doesn’t mean it wasn’t good, just that it wasn’t original. I enjoyed it, but had another movie I had to go to. Taken By Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis about the guy who did most of Pink Floyd’s album covers, which was actually pretty decent for that sort of thing. Then I had to head home.