Madeline Follin of the Cults during a performance at SXSW 2011.
Day two of SXSW was, well, full of adventure. First assignment was The Cults at Urban Outfitters. The crowd was quite… different. One man I talked to made the comment that he had seen nicer-looking crowds in third world nations.
Got the pictures, got the interview, and got out of there.
The second assignment didn’t pan out so nicely. Working my way through downtown Austin I was trailed and triangulated by three guys. My spidey-sense was acting up and I got the hell out of there and ran for the nearest cop. As it turned out they were looking for the guys from a rape earlier in the night.
Very close call.
Made it back to home base, camera safe and intact, minus half a can of self-defense spray.
Here’s to a less eventful day today.
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I’m a developer for a small tech company and have come to my last SXSW. My team happens to be all female and we’ve never had a worse experience at a conference than this year’s meeting. Groping, pissing, drunk and dirty men wandering all over the place at the music venues with crowd management that could have been done better by a Somali pirate. After a close call with a group of young ‘ethnic’ men one night we never went anywhere after dark unless we were all together.
Get your ass out of there Fire Girl.
We like your portfolio work and will be in touch this summer to talk about doing some work for us.
This was my first SXSW and will likely be my last. I’ve worked with all kinds of men in the past and have never, ever had such a bad experience. And I wholeheartedly agree that crowd management was atrocious… I had to sprint over a block to find a cop. Never have I ever seen such a poorly-managed event from a safety perspective. I made it back to my car on an adrenaline high and minus half a can of self-defense spray.
Glad your team made it out of there all right! I’d love to do some work for you and will look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Jess
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