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In case you are not familiar with SXSW, then let me familiarize you with it. Basically, SXSW is week long conference, part internet and technology stuff and the other part music. For the purpose of this conversation, lets concern ourselves with the music part. SXSW happens each year in Austin, Texas. This year SXSW will go down on March 17th-21st. The initial lineup of bands to hit the streets of Austin have been announced. Book your travel, get the scoop, see what bands will be hitting your music blog headlines in 2010. Details ...

Remember doing Photo Assignments? Dig deep into the coiled recesses of thine memory. Go ahead. Reach passed all those childhood traumas and pull on the pink, spiraled piggy tail that springs before you. Stretch it straight, and let a new photo assignment fall to your feet - OMG TURKEY HANDS!

It's almost Turkey Day, and this is how I honour dead birds.

Winter is here and we want to see your snowmen! In celebration of Glamour Kills new clothing line, Buzznet is giving away GK t-shirts and 4 cameras with never seen before photos from All Time Low, We The Kings, Hey Monday and The Friday Night Boys. Deadline to enter is 12/21/09.

Black Friday has become a near holiday on its own. It's the day after Thanksgiving, and usually starts at 3 AM. People crowd the doors of Kohl's/Wal-Mart/K-Mart/Target/Mall/Any place with discounts--and oh, the deals on Black Friday are MAJOR. (My sister scored me a portable DVD player at Wal-Mart for $50 just three years ago), but it has more negatives than it does positives.

Shoppers lose all sense of sanity on Black Friday. People physically assault one another for a DVD. It's possibly even unsafe to shop. Last year, while outside a Wal-Mart waiting for the store to open, two people died. The lines are incredibly long, and the greatest deals are at the least convenient times. On a day where you don't have to work or go to school, you're getting up at 2:00 AM just to go shopping!!


The deals on Black Friday are incredible, but do you think having to be in a crowded space with stupid, rude, violent people at 4:00 AM is worth it?

Enter to win the chance to mingle under the mistletoe with your favorite celebrities. One lucky winner and a friend will be VIP guests at invite-only "Joy of Giving" Holiday Tasting & Tree Trimming Party to benefit The Richie-Madden Children's Foundation. Enter Now!

Ive always been a massive Buzznet fan, but I got curious about my ability so I decided to check out another site (flickr) to see if my photographs got a response there - come on, we all want to know how great we are Y/N?
Anyhow Ive come to the conclusion that there are two types of viewers -
1.) people who want to take apart a photograph, scientifically, quote f.stops and lenses etc .....and

2.) people that look at an image and like it - for the colour, the composition and the downright amazingness (I know thats not a word).

So - all you talented Buzznet Photographers - what do you think? Is it about the science or its it about the art?

Attention everyone in the Los Angeles area. On Sunday, December 6th we are having a private Sounds Of Buzz Party with Forever The Sickest Kids. Enter to win 1 of 100 tickets.

So another week has already gone by, huh? Did you blink and miss it? Catch up on some photo highlights brought to you by RhiannaResolution.

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..." Actually, all I had on my mind was how much I missed my friend who I had seen Twilight (which we mark as the anniversary of said friendship) with and how much better the movie would have been with her there. But, besides the silly quote, I'd like to tell you the movie was a flop and that everything you saw on the many, many trailers for the film was pretty much what happened, but there was much more in between. I'd also like to tell you that I wasn't disappointed in some parts of it, but I was, of course, though I knew what would happen in the first place. Instead though, I'll tell you how much I honestly enjoyed the movie. Read more...

Next week I am heading to the Rave in Milwaukee to interview the hilariously funny boys from Every Avenue. Submit some creative questions that you want this guys to answer and I will try my darndest to get them answered that day! Submit your questions ...