Crisis Averted: Afterparty At Moomia Lounge

Thanks to what is clearly the mighty magical powers of our friends at Rosen Group, extremely glad (and majorly relieved) to announce that ROFLThing-NYC will, in our traditional style, be finishing up as announced with a crazy post-conference dance party with Jamie Dubs & Serious Business heading up the Wheels of Steel and special awesomeness added by the interactive creations of Hak5. Best of all, it’ll be going much later than the previously announced time of 10:30 to more respectable party hours (see updated schedule).

The venue? Moomia Lounge, just a block or two down the street from all the conference events at Santos Party House @ 157 Lafayette Street.

As you’ll see from their website, the place is a bit kooky — but fitting. After all, what’s a more fitting way to close out a day of web culture geekery than in an Egyptian splendor? Right? Right.

The Barbarian Group and Rick Webb = Ballin’ @ ROFLThing-NYC

Really bodacious news coming out today that our old friends from the original ROFLCon and this summer’s ROFLThing-SF are once again rolling out with us to make some major A+++ Would Buy Again action in New York City next week!

To be precise, Rick Webb, co-founder of interactive marketing geniuses/generators of the cool The Barbarian Group, has just confirmed that he’ll be co-hosting ROFLThing-NYC with Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian. Beyond creating a mighty charming power team to MC the events that day — we’re also super happy to announce that TBG is also officially coming on board as a sponsor for the event!

You might remember The Barbarian Group from such awesomeness as Subservient Chicken. And, if you haven’t yet seen their Biomimetic Butterflies project yet, you really, really should.

Laughing Squid Sponsors ROFLThing-NYC!

Badass.

Super excellent news coming out today that ROFLCon’s friends over at the awesome art/culture/technology blog-and-web hosting-empire Laughing Squid are officially coming on board as event sponsors for ROFLThing-NYC on Jan 24th! They were with us at the original conference back in April and we’re thrilled to have them along for the ride again.

Also, if you’re in town earlier in the week, keep your evenings open — Scott will be throwing a drinkup for Laughing Squid and the ROFLTeam will be kicking it over there en masse to hang out.

The Firefox Art Panel at ROFLThing-NYC

In celebration of New Years, the team is super happy today to reveal our final mystery speaking slot for ROFLThing-NYC.

Specifically: we’re glad to announce that Jamie Wilkinson (who’ll be rolling deep with Serious Business later in the evening on the 24th) will be heading a panel showcasing “Firefox Art” — creative, experimental add-ons that twist the web experience (see e.g. Add-Art) — and discussing creativity on- and with- the web, and the specific possibilities presented by Firefox extensions, advances in javascript, and open-source generally.

In addition to Jamie, the panel will feature fellow F.A.T. member Steve Lambert (who you may remember from the NYTimes Special Edition project a month back, among other projects), and Tobias Leingruber, programmer of China Channel and the co-creator of Pirates of the Amazon. They’ll also be talking about ArtZilla, an awesome repository for Firefox add-on projects usually denied from listing on the addons.mozilla.org universe for being “useless art.”

Badass? You betcha.