After seeing an amazing Lou Reed tribute featuring Lou Reed in the early evening, Nilina and I headed to the Playboy party. Certainly the things to be enjoyed most about SXSW are not found in that kind of over-hyped, “exclusive” super corporate event, I mean, Playboy?! But seeing if I could make my way in was half the fun. We didn’t know where the party was exactly, but the hundreds of people waiting outside made it easy to figure it out.
Long story short, after trying everything in the book, I did make it into the giant warehouse, with a side room with a wall of port-a-potties instead of restrooms and cheesy corporate logos being projected on the wall. I missed all the bands (The Heavy and MGMT) and wasn’t officially in there so didn’t want to risk taking any pictures…
Nilina did get this hilarious polaroid (in case you’re wondering, it’s Miss May 2007 and Miss February 2008):
In not too long, as I was wondering if we should call it an evening or wait for Justice’s DJ set which seemed to be bound to happen very late, and intently staring at Lance Armstrong to see if he was wearing a yellow bracelet, my reverie was stopped by someone asking me a question.
“Do I know you?”
The answer was no but we started talking. It was Matt from MGMT. He took us right to the VIP area, where I got to shoot a few portraits:
Matt:
Nilina and SO ME:
(I like the girl on the right hiding in the shadows).
Genevieve, this is for you:
Justice’s DJ set finally started at around 3am. It was madness on stage, photographers everywhere (they let us up there), a film crew, Playmates, people in giant stuffed animal costumes jumping around, technical difficulties (they almost stopped everything at one point) but the crowd seemed to having an amazing time:
See the full set on flickr.
We ended the night having drinks in a red-lit room in the back. There were talks of a pool party somewhere that never materialized. We jumped in a cab at 6 am, just a little bit elated.
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