Tune in at 10:30 PM CST for an Echotone Live
Streaming Q&A from El Cosmico to
the Talking Pictures Festival In Chicago

Join featured artist Bill Baird, Echotone director Nathan Christ, and producer Victor Moyers for a live streaming Q&A with the audience at the Chicago Premiere of Echotone at the Talking Pictures Festival.

Free TV : Ustream

Feel free to tweet in and add your two cents as we will be monitoring this feed from Marfa!

World Premiere @ Marfa Film Fest 5.7.2010
Chicago Premiere to follow
@ Talking Pictures Festival 5.8.2010

Two years ago we embarked on a journey to document something so hard to describe, yet so profoundly felt.

The result of this documentation resulted in an 88 minute exploration of the present cultural zeitgeist, living, breathing, sleeping in the gulleys of 10th st. and the alleyways of Red River.

It brings us great pleasure to announce that Echotone will World Premiere at the cultural epicenter of Marfa Texas on Friday, May 7th 2010 at 4:30 PM at the legendary Crowley Theater and Premiere in Chicago the following evening, May 8th, 9:00 PM, at the Next Theatre as a part of the Talking Pictures Festival.

Our producers and Director Nathan Christ, cast members Bill Baird, Black Joe Lewis, and Cari Palazzolo  will all be on site to celebrate in Marfa TX and be a part of the Q&A following the screening on Friday at the Crowley.

We will also be streaming Nathan’s Q&A for the Chicago Premiere of Echotone live from Marfa, TX, direct to the Talking Pictures Festival audience via the world wide web. You can check it out right here – Saturday, May 8 at 10:30 PM CST.

Get Tickets to the World Premiere of Echotone, May 7th, 4:30 PM at the Crowley Theater, Marfa Film Festival 2010, Marfa TX.

Get Tickets to the Chicago Premiere of Echotone, May 8th, 9:00 PM at the Next Theatre, Talking Pictures Festival 2010, Chicago, IL.

Much love to Producer Daniel Perlaky for designing a poster that represents an idea hard enough to describe in words let alone in one single image.    Feel free to download it, post it, repost it and share with a friend.

Help Bill Baird of Sunset Make Things

Kickstarter…what an amazing tool!!! So amazing it helps us help our favorite artists! This week we are launching a “Help Bill Baird Make Stuff Campaign.” Help Bill Make Stuff by clicking the image below, watching Bill’s live video post from Baby Blue and considering donating to the release of Sunset’s upcoming album, ‘Love Shines, but the Moon is Shining Too.’

ATX Emerge/Art Disaster: Bi-annual Blowouts

Tonight and tomorrow night are double-headers, giant waves breaking one after another on the eve of SXSW Music.

They’ve got me more excited than any event happening during the official SXSW stretch. They are ATX Emerge, tonight at the Mohawk, and Art Disaster, tomorrow night at Beauty Bar.

Without hyping the exciting bands, I’ll speak as a documentary filmmaker. These events and the people behind them (including Emerge’s sister Fall event ATX Converge) were the petrie dishes for Echotone.

It was at ATX Converge that we first filmed Black Joe Lewis (the same month he and the Honeybears signed to Lost Highway/Universal Records). The Mohawk was quick to become the epicenter for the world of the story. Not only do our 3 central bands (Sunset, Black Joe, and Belaire) all play within the Mohawk’s walls on-camera, the Mohawk also directly plays into one of the downtown development stories in Echotone. The flats across the street have caused some interesting hurdles to spring up for the folks at the Mohawk.

SXSWers! Look up! Look at how much the city has changed since you were last eating our tacos! Also, don’t for a moment think that the weather is this pleasant year-round. The heat maelstrong is fast approaching. You’re in the sweet spot.

Lastly, the grassroots companies who organized the orginal Emerge 2 years ago (Reversal Films, Indierect Records, Swatch Post, Voodoo Highway) were all utterly instrumental in giving Echotone its legs.

Some of the brightest, most talented, most passionated (and many times the most preening) members of ATX’s film/music/fashion/design culture will be at Emerge tonight. And the music will blow you away.

Art Disaster, put on by Daniel Perlaky, is likewise a nonstop art orgy. The event is aptly titled and Mr. Perlaky seems to delight in the chaos of it all. DJs, MCs, psychadelia, screenprinting, poster show, a photo booth, and free booze. The makings of a beautiful mess of people coming together and sharing in the local energy.

Cutting the scenes together from what we shot of these events over the last 2 years already makes me a bit nostalgic. Not the syrupy kind. The kind that makes me want to go out and continue participating in this very inspiring time.

-Nathan