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SXSW 14: Man on a Mission After-Party at the Marq
For somebody who began his adulthood behind the scenes, learning technology and building games, Richard Garriott has become accustomed to the limelight. For years, he has staged some of the most notorious parties in Austin — notorious for their sweet eccentricities, not bacchanalian excesses, by the way. And he has publicly backed the arts and sciences, particularly Zach Theatre and the nascent Austin Planetarium.
Nicole Whiteside, Lindsey Taylor and Stanley Roy Williamson of Tiny Stolen Moments
But once he spent some of those gaming dollars to train for a Russian space mission, Garriott’s public star, so to speak, has risen ever farther. Son of an astronaut himself, Garriott and his space flight was the subject of a documentary, “Man on a Mission,” which premiered at SXSW.
Steve Brudniak, Catarina Sigerfoos and Kevin Kettler
His After-Party staked out the Marq and Prague, two floors of the four-level bar complex at West Fifth Street and Congress Avenue. It was a pretty frisky affair with paid dancers on tiny trampolines and a space chair (don’t know what else to call it). I spent time with several prominent creative types, including sculptor Steve Brudniak (Garriott owns some of his pieces) and Austinist co-founder and sly conversationalist Ben Brown.
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