SXSW: Talkin' To Randoms On Red River And A Chicken

We're rolling with a camera crew at this year's fest, capturing our favorite performances, interviewing bands, and getting advice from festival goers on successfully navigating South By Southwest 2008. Yaris/Free Yr Radio kindly lent us wheels to get around. Here Stereogum's Amrit Singh talks to folks about useless wristbands, death metal cuisine, and Vampire Weekend. Check the cameo from freestyle wordsmith Kosha Dillz, who wants to know how SXSW is like a matzoh ball. (Congrats KD, you win a tag.)

Posted at 6:19 PM in Video
Tags: Kosha Dillz | SXSW

12 Comments

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Posted by: blackmailismylife at 03/13/08 7:43 PM  | Reply
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amrit is just how i imagined him...yes i spend my time imagining what the wrtiers at stereogum are like in person. scott is totally different than what i thought.

Posted by: mike at 03/13/08 7:48 PM  | Reply
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This is cool, but you guys reallllly need to export it at a lower bitrate. I'm on a really, really fast dsl connection and it's taking forever to load.

Posted by: HTFAF at 03/13/08 8:32 PM  | Reply
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...but the quality!

no, it's a good point. we'll see what we can do to balance quality and file size better.

Posted by: jim  in reply to HTFAF's comment at 03/13/08 9:11 PM  | Reply
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ok, if anyone's still reading this thread, we did some work with our open-source video encoder (ffmpeg) to get a fair balance of quality and file size. videos should be about 1/3 as large from now on...there's still no equivalent of LAME's -aps.

Posted by: jim  in reply to HTFAF's comment at 03/14/08 6:14 PM  | Reply
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WHY isn't andrew wk reporting about this?

Posted by: Liam at 03/13/08 11:34 PM  | Reply
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exactly how many arm curls did amrit do before each interview?

Posted by: nick at 03/14/08 1:12 AM  | Reply
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everyone looks buff standing next to a chicken.

Posted by: amrit  in reply to nick's comment at 03/18/08 3:55 PM  | Reply
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I'm pretty sure I know the dude in the chicken suit...

Posted by: Sara at 03/15/08 11:54 AM  | Reply
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Hey! Thanks for the interview! I'm the scruffy guy near the beginning and again near the end.

Posted by: Cameron Walters at 03/17/08 3:31 PM  | Reply
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good article. very helpfull!! thanks

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