Last month Aaron Kronis won the shoeperstar contest for SXSW. The contest was co-sponsored by myself and IZEA. In winning the contest Aaron won a all expense paid trip to the SXSW conference in Austin Texas last week and also $1,000.00 spending money.
When he showed up we gave him a plain white t-shirt and told him in order to get his room keys he had to invade the blog haus and get 30 websites and business cards on his shirt. We figured this would be a great opportunity to meet at least half of the technorati top 50 bloggers.
Aaron was a total rockstar…. like I am not just saying that. If you did not know any better you would have thought he was the biggest star there. My friend (and fellow elite retreat speaker) Guy Kawasaki paid a girl $20.00 just to go up and find out who he was and what he was doing… then he was happy to participate!
Other people that got in on the fun:
The one and only Problogger Darren Rowse
Brian Clark aka Copyblogger:
Krista from photrade Whats she writing?
lolz:
Technosailer (nice to meet you finally)
Robert Scoble was to much in a hurry to participate:
So Aaron was also required to get each of the bloggers to make a sound so we could put together a beatbox soundboard… here it is!
It was a REALLY awesome time and I enjoyed hanging out with Aaron. He is truly a superstar and I would say he was a good sport but he totally was a cool guy and someone I look forward to possibly working with in the future. Good job Aaron!
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March 27, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Funny video, do you guys do any work at these or is it all play???
March 22, 2008 at 12:25 pm
The video is really great and good pics
March 20, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Yeah, kinda different. But if everyone would be mainstream.. where would be the fun.
March 20, 2008 at 3:40 am
look close at Darren of problogger’s watch .. the dial of it is pink…
March 19, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Glad I made a brief appearance in the video and I’m also the background girl in the picture of Guy Kawasaki writing on Aaron’s shirt. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the girl he paid $20 to ask you what you were doing.
@aruni on twitter
March 19, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hey Shoe,
In an attempt to immortalize your name (as if it already isn’t), I included you in my new song “The SEO Blues”. I hope you dig it. You can listen to it here:
http://www.businessol.com/seo-blog/2008/03/seo-blues-free-mp3-music-download-by.html
Catfish
March 19, 2008 at 9:06 am
A pink watch? What is that??
March 19, 2008 at 8:42 am
Just notiched Darren’s watch … pink eh… Thats a bit different
March 19, 2008 at 8:41 am
uh oh … you are in trouble now lol …
March 19, 2008 at 8:41 am
yeah I bet it did
March 19, 2008 at 2:00 am
Kinda bad move from Guy. But seems that he had some fun though.. so its okay
March 19, 2008 at 1:16 am
The armpit signature and beatbox were definitely creative and must’ve took some hard work.
March 19, 2008 at 1:09 am
Yeah, to be honest I thought you were definitely bald…
March 19, 2008 at 1:07 am
Yeah, that was impressive
March 19, 2008 at 1:06 am
Haha, that video was pretty cool
March 19, 2008 at 1:03 am
It looked like Aaron rocked it out and you all had some fun… COOL
March 18, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Looks like it was a great event. Aaron rocked it like a Shoeperstar! lol @ what Krista wrote on the shirt.
That video edit is awesome as well. Great job!
~Terry
March 18, 2008 at 7:47 pm
a FREAKING long way
March 18, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I’m always surprised that people don’t know that – I think from the front it looks like I’m bald but back and sides there is plenty
March 18, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I can’t wait to leave work so I can crank that video. Nice creativity. You are clearly both shoeperstars!
March 18, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Not only you
I too missed the show
March 18, 2008 at 4:20 pm
This’d be a great icebreaker at any event.
-JKT
March 18, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I was wondering who that guy was…
March 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Kind of cool seeing Darren Rowse there. He had to travel a long ways.
March 18, 2008 at 3:30 pm
That looks AWESOME. I wish I could have seen that!
March 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm
that seems like a lot of fun. great idea.
March 18, 2008 at 2:59 pm
special shout out to BRITT from izea who was the ‘brains behind the operation’ but didnt get to go to sxsw
March 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Haha, that’s a cool beatboxing video. Seems like he had a lot of fun.
March 18, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Aaron rocks. He’s the greatest.
March 18, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks Jeremy, and also to Ted Murphy of Izea, (with Travis and Ashley) and everyone who made that such an amazing and memorable trip. Also thanks for all the love from people i have never met who have supported my efforts and enjoyed my post ‘69 reasons…’ – so who should be on my blogroll?
lemme know and i’ll add you.
Aaron -
March 18, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Nice remixing job
March 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Lol… that was really funny beatbox!
Cheers~
Did you guys drink any beer for St. Patricks day? Who’s not wearing green?
March 18, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I love the armpit signature and the beatbox idea was so cool!!!
March 18, 2008 at 11:28 am
Wow. Darren has hair.
March 18, 2008 at 11:02 am
Dying laughing. Really. I think I may have to use this to tell everyone I’m Guy’s Paid Girl. How’s that for a tag line? Really, I’m laughing. It’s ok.
March 18, 2008 at 10:53 am
Apologies! I actually came in at the very end and thats what I was told!
March 18, 2008 at 10:32 am
PAID A GIRL???!!! PAID A GIRL??!!!! It was me, and I didn’t take the money, and it was to say ‘who the hell are you?”
Paid a girl. OMG
March 18, 2008 at 10:17 am
The video is pretty cool! Must have taken a lot of work to put that together.
March 18, 2008 at 9:55 am
Funniest video in a long time. Love it.
March 18, 2008 at 9:46 am
Very cool, was wondering what the significance of those photos were when I saw them earlier. Guy looks pretty excited to get some shots of his own.
March 18, 2008 at 9:42 am
hey shoe whats with the finger pointing that is my self brand thingy – lol
haha the video great!
March 18, 2008 at 9:37 am
thanks. I was trying to figure out who the guy was in all of the pictures with people signing his shirt and why he was doing it! now I know. He was a good sport for sure!!
March 18, 2008 at 9:25 am
The small arrow is point to….never mind.
March 18, 2008 at 8:51 am
Wow… how could you guys get together always? How i wish i could meet all of you later.
March 18, 2008 at 8:51 am
The editing of that video is GREAT! Good work! I watched it twice and enjoyed it both times.
March 18, 2008 at 8:18 am
What a clever way to get Aaron to meet his fellow bloggers. Also clever is Krista from photrade…hahaha.
March 18, 2008 at 7:57 am
the video was nice …. wondering what the small arrow is pointing to lol.
March 18, 2008 at 7:29 am
Great pictures and video, man I missed being there.
March 18, 2008 at 7:19 am
Nice remixing job!
March 18, 2008 at 7:18 am
You might want to fix Aaron’s link. He might appreciate it