Don’t Do This at Your Next Concert

  Live Fix Experiment Results: Miike Snow &  The Tapping-On-My-Notepad Lady These are no ordinary Live Fix Experiment results. What I’m going to share with you is both rare and crucial to every fan’s live music experience. It happened to me at the Miike Snow concert on Sept 25th.  It was something that has never happened to me [...]

How to Capture Live Concert Emotions With Few Words

It’s a few weeks past, but nonetheless, I’d like to share the creative note-taking of Mike Rohde as he uses his moleskine to remember this year’s SXSW Interactive conference. As I mentioned last year–when I first saw Mike’s sketches of SXSW 2008–I was reminded of how I do a similar thing when I’m covering concerts. Sometimes I [...]

SXSW Sketching: The Rohde to Recall

I always wonder how other reviewers take notes so I can learn and improve my own note taking. And when I saw designer Mike Rohde’s Moleskine notes from the recent SXSW music and media festival I was reminded of what I do during a show when the sketching bug bites me and I get filled [...]