Throwback Thursday – To commemorate the 10th year of SXTXState, each Thursday we’ll be featuring past participants in the project. Check back each Thursday until SXSW to find out what SXTXState alumni remember from their time with the project and what they are up to now. Sarah Marquis, formerly Hopper, attended Texas State University for […]
Wow. Ten years. It seems like only yesterday when an upstart politician named Barack Obama was making a play for the White House, Adele was 19 and a group of Texas State students saw a young Mark Zuckerberg talk about his big vision for the relatively new Facebook at SXSW 2008. I first attended SXSW Interactive […]
Destabilization is what new technology is all about, at least in the eyes of one SXSW panelist, Joshua Morrison. If the short-lived Pokémon Go fad was any indicator, virtual reality and augmented reality have clearly led to an unstable, shifting landscape for developers. This concept of destabilization is precisely what Morrison is attempting to demonstrate […]
Black Lives Matter is strongly impacting the world. This movement has worked its way into the fashion industry and into runway collections and advertising. Fashion is one of the greatest ways of expression with trends guiding the way, and trends from the black community are making a huge reawakening. I spoke with James Sanders, fashion editor and […]
From El Paso to Corpus Christi to Central Texas, taco journalist Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece will be taking their audience on a taco journey at SXSW Interactive. I spoke with Rayo, CEO of Mando Rayo + Collective, about his upcoming panel and how he made his passion for tacos into a book and career. […]
Have you ever had a nagging voice inside your head that tries to tell you that you aren’t good enough for the job you are interviewing for; that you are going to fail this presentation you are giving in graduate school; that there is no way you can finish that marathon? These are the inner […]
Innovation leads the way with technology. It’s constantly changing, upgrading, and expanding to not only tech gadgets but to more familiar parts of our world, such as the fashion industry. Technology is not only contributing to retail online shopping, but is on it’s way into the apparel itself. Ever wonder when those self-fitting and drying […]