Video: SXSW 2012: South by Southwest kicks off in Austin

Filed under: The Hit List Getty Images Among the 2,000 or so acts that will ply their trade at SXSW this year, a lucky few will leave Austin on the road to stardom. Amy Winehouse , the White Stripes , the Strokes and many, many others saw their careers take off after the festival, and rather than give you yet another SXSW preview, we decided to ask some of the [...]

Unless you're living in a bubble, or just don't care about music, or like music pretty much but have an otherwise busy and full and rewarding life—then you already know SXSW is under way, with the music portion of the multi-pronged clusterfuck kicking off tomorrow. Hong Kong animators have taken it upon themselves to depict EXACTLY what Austin's big to-do is all about. So here is a perfectly realized depiction of what I'll be up to later this week. After seeing this, I don't even need to go. via TDS [...]

As you all know, SXSW kicked off March 9 and will continue on for the next six days, after which ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ hilarious-sxsw-interpreted-by- hong-kong-animators-/63072/