ROFLCon up in this OHHH!

…Watch us crank it, watch us roll!

On Saturday afternoon, a few ROFLCon attendees had the privilege of learning about the history of dance crazes from Kevin Driscoll, the founding father of Soulja Boy Studies (SBS, pronounced Essbeezy). The slides from his panel, Work it Move it Bang it Bump it, are now up…as is the video of the snaps-on learning the attendees took part in!

To see ROFLCon crank it, click here for the Blip version or here for the crappier Youtube version.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(Update: For those of you who remain unconvinced about the importance of Crank Dat Soulja Boy, I present: Mike Gravel, candidate for the American presidency)

ROFLCon Afterparty–Now with spiffy poster!

We at team ROFLCon firmly believe in dancing. Yes, even while we do the very Serious Business of gathering internet celebrities to our little conference, we still remain a strictly pro-dancing establishment. As such, we are proud to officially announce the ROFLCon afterparty, hosted by Basstown and featuring Hearthrob, DJ Lone Wolf, the Basstown DJs, and visuals from Bloodsugar. That’s right, visuals. Like Tron Guy, but multicolored and spinning.

Directions are forthcoming, but mark this down now–this is going to be a party not to be missed!

ROFLCon Flickr Pool!

Are you a photogeek? If so, PLEASE bring your camera to ROFLCon and take pictures! No matter what service you use to upload, please tag the pictures as “roflcon08″ or “roflcon” so that we can find them easily. And for Flickr users, there’s even a group you can join to show off how special you are.

Right now there’s only a few sneak peeks of the ROFLStaff during a meeting, but we hope that by the end of the weekend it’ll be chock full of gorgeous, wonderful pictures that we can all show to our children (that we will not be producing during the conference, thanks to the ROFLCondoms).

Speaking of reproduction, however, we would really appreciate it if you would consider licensing your pictures under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license. The reasoning behind this is that since ROFLCon is really about internet culture, we want to respect the practices that have enabled the culture to thrive: namely, sharing and remixing. By licensing your pictures under CC-BY-SA, you’re declaring that it is legal for anyone to download your picture and make other cool things with them as long as whatever they make is also available for sharing and remixing. Isn’t that what the internet is all about?

(Nota bene: I, like most other members of the ROFLCon team, am a member of Harvard College Free Culture.)

ROFLConcert is GOOooo!

What are you doing on the evening of April 25th? Well, forget that. It’s DEFINITELY not as cool as this.

We’ve been teasing you with vague details about this before, but it’s now totally official:

ROFLCONCERT 2008 @ The Middle East Upstairs

April 25th, 9 PM

featuring

Gröûp X

Lemon Demon

Leslie & the LY’s

Trocadero

Average Homeboy Denny Blaze

& assorted other musical guests.

Because the capacity of the space is limited to about 200, tickets for the show will be available at a first come, first serve basis throughout the conference at no extra cost. A little extra incentive to show up early on Friday!