One of the great sights of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is Rembrandt’s huge painting “Night Watch.” Local gentry signed up to be painted in a big group and got into the foreground (or background) depending on how much they paid.
But where was Rembrandt last week, at sxsw? I got to meet so many people I knew from online, but photos show only groupings of two here, three there.
Therefore, by the power vested in me (to steal from online images) I have refurbished the great Rembrandt “Night Watch” to include friends from #joiito I met in Austin.
Who’s who? Back row, Jon Lebkowsky of EFF Austin, and Adam Hill of the shiny red convertible. Front row, left to right–knight on a white horse Jonas M Luster and Adina Levin, drawing her sword to defend EFF or maybe SocialText. Go, Adina! Then me!
Joi Ito himself is showing something to Tantek Çelik, a Microsoft diplomat and CSS guru. Then Liz Lawley, aka mamamusings–sharing only one dinner with her was not enough. Finally Sam Ruby, who saved me from losing my cell phone and has a very sweet smile.
In other news, I’d like to thank Jonas for the mechanical hand buzzer, and Tantek and Sam Ruby for letting me buzz them with it. Can’t imagine why Rembrandt somehow left this out….
4 responses so far ↓
1 Joi Ito // Mar 26, 2004 at 5:20 pm
;-) As usual. Awesome.
But you MUST put a creative commons license on your page so we can share.
http://www.creativecommons.org/
2 Liz // Mar 27, 2004 at 9:05 am
That’s fabulous, Betsy! And you’re right, one dinner wasn’t enough. Hope to have a chance to sup with you again soon. :)
3 Betsy Devine // Mar 27, 2004 at 9:15 am
My blog used to have a Creative Commons license on it, and I didn’t realize it no longer had one! Just put it back on. Thanks for the heads up, Joi.
4 Betsy Devine // Mar 27, 2004 at 2:34 pm
<creativeCommons:license>http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/</creativeCommons:license>
OIC–the Creative Commons license was in my RSS feed but didn’t show up on my blog. But now it appears at the bottom of every page. Liz, let me know if you ever head for Boston–and I’ll be seeing you otherwheres, I’m sure!