Software Creators
By April 2013, I had built the first version of FestiGram, which I called festivaltime at the time. It was similar to today’s FestiGram in a lot of respects. The first artist ids are still the ones from Coachella 2013, and a lot of our initial reviews have survived. At the time, festivaltime had no […]
I think we need a new system of voting. One big problem with voring is that the default is not-voting, which is kind of bad for society. So we need to switch the default to esy-voting, while accounting for the fact that people are mostly lazy. I think what we need is a system with […]
In January 2013, my friend asked me if I knew of any apps for keeping track of bands at a festival. I remember I was sitting in the cafeteria at BMW, waiting to meet to with someone there about a project. And while I waited, I created the first blueprint for FestiGram. The basic idea […]
Sometimes things need to be cleansed with fire. RIP. What kind of fucking coward shoots a man in the back as he flees?
Tool was the last band I saw before the Pandemic, when they closed Aftershock 2019 as headliner. Metallica I haven’t seen in a few years, but I’ve seen them many times, probably my favorite was the Big 4 show where they played the Coachella Main Stage the weekend between Coachella and Stagecoach. I’m talking about […]
I hadn’t really expected Coachella to happen, but it is still disappointing to see it go. I mean, if there was a time for a RATM reunion, it was this year. And Danny Elfman… Anyway, fuck viruses.
Festivals run on the schedule, and once a scheduled has been announced and entered into FestiGram, you can see it on each Day page. Sign in to FestiGram to follow along. You can get to the Date Detail screen from the Festival Detail page, see this post for directions. Make sure to use Coachella 2019 […]
The basic idea of FestiGram is to know which artist to pick at a festival. The first part is listening before the festival, and in FestiGram that is called Research. Sign in to FestiGram to follow along. The Research Widget is the same in both the Festival Detail screen and the Research screen, but this […]
FestiGram Research generally refers to listening to musicians before a festival to make some notes to help yourself (or someone else) decide who to see at the festival. The Festival Detail screen contains everything needed to research a festival lineup. You can sign up for FestiGram and follow along. If youre’ not sure how to […]
The basic idea of FestiGram is to know which artist to pick at a festival. The first part is listening before the festival, and in FestiGram that is called Research. Sign in to FestiGram to follow along. Series vs. Festival vs. Date vs. … In FestiGram, a series is an annual festival, like Coachella. A […]