Answering the overwhelming number of requests from the public, we’ve been able to successfully salvage the complete 2-hour chat transcript between various members of the crowd at last week’s Titans of Small-Town gallery show and creator of Achewood Chris Onstad. It’s pretty enlightening (as evidenced above).

Read it here! (warning: pdf).

Rock.

We are all systems go.

See you tonight!

Just got word from ROFL-MC (and Reddit honcho) Alexis Ohanian that his outfit Breadpig has officially launched the auction for the ROFLDNA project!

If you were at ROFLThing-NYC, you might remember Alexis shadily going around and getting a bunch of our speakers/guests to swab their cheeks for DNA. These swabs were sent to the good people over at DNA11, who promptly combined them and created the gorgeous DNA Mini Portrait that you see above. It contains the genetic material of the following web folks:

• A.J. “HatPerson” Mazur of Lil’ Jon-Lazy Town Remix “Cooking By the Book”
• Jay “TRON guy” Maynard who needs no introduction
• Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts AND Mr. T Facts
• moot of 4chan
• Irina Slutsky of GeekEntertainment TV
• Jason Scott, owner of Sockington & master of TextFiles
• Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere
• Damian Hess, AKA MC Frontalot of nerdcore hip-hop fame
• Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
• Jamie Wilkinson of the FFFFF.AT Lab and Rocketboom

The hope, of course, is that one day we’ll be able to use the Mini Portrait to resurrect the entire internet in some grim bombed out cyberpunk future. But until then, you can own this totally sweet wall ornament and conversation piece. Keep it safe for future generations!

The auction ends this Thursday, so act fast if you want to get in. Best of all, the entire proceeds from the auction will be donated to the good people over @ Science Commons. Rock.

Good news! Happy to announce today that as of over the weekend, the TITANS OF SMALL TOWN gallery show has officially added Emily and Joey from web favorites A Softer World to the roster!

They’ll be putting together some awesome large-format prints of their work up on display @ 303Grand for the opening, and will be joining Ryan and Chris for the Q&A (and potentially jumping in on the collaborative piece that will be going down afterwards).

The two words that spring to mind are: totally kickass.

Good news! This serious lookin’ dude we’ve got here is Benjamin Palmer, co-founder and CEO-honcho of The Barbarian Group. You might remember Benjamin from the original ROFLCon back in April, and we’re glad to announce today that we’ve brought him back to MC the Q&A session for the night!

He’ll also be exhibiting. Parts of his series, AWESOME_SCENES, will also be framed and on display that night (personal favorite).

Also, since we realized that in our excitement to announce Titans of Small-Town that we actually forgot to update the rest of the ROFLCon site. Our schedule, sidebar and registration pages have been updated accordingly. We’ll be opening doors at 6:30 PM on April 11th.

Wow, it’s been awhile, Internet, what have you been up to? Sorry we’ve been taking so long to update on this here blog.

Rest assured, though, dear readers, that the folks over here @ ROFLHeadquarters have not been sitting around idly eating Funyuns and watching back episodes of Clone High like you might expect. If you’re in New York City on April 11th, we’ve been working with our friends over at The Barbarian Group to put together TITANS OF SMALL TOWN @ 303Grand in Brooklyn — a kickass one-night webcomics gallery event featuring work (and limited run, exclusive work only available at the event)  from:

* Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics

* Chris Hastings, Dr. McNinja

* Chris Onstad, Achewood 

The artists (still working out the deets with Onstad) will be on site as well to do a Q&A about the work!

Tickets now on sale for $20. Due to the size of the gallery, supplies are extremely limited and we totally expect to sell out all the slots on this, so if you’re interested, definitely worth getting in ASAP.  More details to follow in the coming days! Drop a line at tim AT roflcon DOT org, if you’ve got any questions.

IT’S GO TIME.

Let’s do this.

Registration Opens @ 11:30 AM EST at Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street).

Be there.

Like most people who hang out too much on the Internet, there’s a couple of memes that we follow here on the ROFLCon team that we’re pretty sure no one else has heard of or thinks is funny/cool. We however, find them hysterical.

Dave Secretary is one of these individuals.

Dave Secretary writes about his childhood in all caps with no punctuation, and it is a beautiful beautiful thing. He’s also responsible for Everything Is Irritating and Comics I Have To Explain. We’re pretty sure he’s our official candidate the as-yet unsung Bard of the Internet. Anyways, we invited him, and glad to report that we’ve heard word he’ll be probably showing up for part of the conference and the afterparty (and that “this is seriously going to rule. i almost fell out of a speeding bus earlier today.”)

So if you’re out there, and you happen to love Dave Secretary, you should come out and meet him.

Chea! Continuing in the barrage of information that we’ve been lovingly filling you RSS feed with of late, AnnounceCon 2.0 is well underway and we’re way excited to be announcing Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam from Internets Celebrities as featured attendees! Their bud, Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine and HipHopMusic(.com) will also be in attendance.

These cewebrities have created several well received video essays that were featured on iFC and are the self proclaimed ” Woodward and Bernstein for the YouTube generation.” These two are definitely some dudes that you want to hang out with. Watch out because their super stellar director, Casimir will be hanging around as well, maybe they want to film us?

So, if you’re a user of Twitter at all (hah!), you’re probably aware of the phenomenon of The Shorty Awards, the first ever awards granted to those who have been showing particuar artistry at expressing themselves in 140 characters or less.

Several of speakers are contenders for top-dog spot at the Shorty Awards this year (namely, the all-caps feline empire that is SOCKINGTON), so we figured it was only appropriate that the Shorty Awards themselves make an appearance.

That’s right, Greg Galant, one of the masterminds behind the Shorties, will be attending ROFLThing!

Oh man guys! This is probably the most exciting news that I’ve had since I found out that peanut butter indeed actually came in a slice form and skimmed 45 seconds off of my lunch packing time as a child.

Muxtape, the super awesome music playlist-sharing site that was taken down awhile back, is making an epic return: “relaunching soon, in the service of bands.”  The new guys up top, Justin Ouellette and Luke Crawford will be hanging out and handing out some swag. Be sure to show them some love.

UPDATE: No way: Muxtape for Bands is sponsoring Saturday night’s Afterparty for the Internets!!  You’ll see them on the dancefloor, joining us for some Serious Bu$iness.

Alright, alright, alright – so you’re like “holy bejeezus this is a ton of posts”

And we’re like, okay, here, have another one.

People from Funny or Die (home of Will Ferrell’s “Landlord” movie) are showing up. Find them!

Sometimes, just sometimes – intellectual property can be cool.

Glad to reveal that A.J. “HatPerson” Mazur, scholar/gentleman/and the co-creator of the Lil’ Jon-Lazy Town Remix “Cooking By the Book” mini-YouTube meme will be showing up to chill throughout the day at ROFLThing-NYC!

If you’re unfamilliar with the story, LazyTown Entertainment dropped some heavy takedown action and DMCAed Mazur’s ass over not liking the video, which led to a tidal wave of user uploaded copies to Youtube. Mazur filed a counternotice on fair use grounds — and, glad to report that after a review, the video is officially back in action online.

Free Culture what what.

It’s not too late to get tickets to ROFLThing, we’re giving to charity — check this out. 

Just got the wonderful news here at ROFLThing HQ in a shack in New Jersey that Kenyatta, Ellie, and Jamie (also presenting and DJing) of Rocketboom’s labcoat-wearing, meme-exploring action-packed-team internet culture SWAT team over at Know Your Meme will be showing up! If you’re not familiar with Know Your Meme, you should be – check it out here.

Rocking. Simply, rocking.

Now we just need to get Boxxy, and we’ll be all good to go.

It’s not too late to get tickets to ROFLThing, we’re giving to charity — check this out. 

So, after a long, drawn-out battle and discussion with the owners over the last week or so, Moomia’s has officially dinged us down hard and all our alternative suggestions to work it out: the afterparty will be 21+. We’re stuck too because there’s no other venues open at this point.

This sucks so hard and we feel like asshats. Particularly because the 18+ crowd is internets too.

But – if you want parties and shenanigans and are in town early, ROFLThing’s got something cooked up for you.

On, uh, the New York City subway system. With people.

Friday night. 10:30 PM. Union Square, near the statue of Ol’ George Washington.

We’ll be there. You should be too.

It’s not too late to get tickets to ROFLThing, we’re giving to charity — check this out. 

So for any of you kids hat sat around and used to,  I don’t know, spend all day in front of your computer, troll message boards and play the occasional MMO on your sweet setup, this is your man.

That’s right guys, the guy that most everyone would call the founding father of Nerdcore, MC Frontalot, has decided to come and hang out at  ROFLThing-NYC – to our collective delight.  He shot his way to fame in our hearts for not only laying down the freshest beats, but after a show he helped out one of our staffers after they got towed. We’re super stoked to have him hanging out with us mere internet mortals.

Man, that MC Frontalot is such a cool dude!

It’s not too late to get tickets to ROFLThing, we’re giving to charity — check this out. 

Oh man, so we are WAY behind.

With only 72 hours left to go, we’ve still got oodles of featured guests, sponsors, and other fun stuff we’ve been meaning to announce.

Sorry, we are lame. Putting this -thing together has been crazier than we expected.

So for the next 72 hours, we are going to PICK UP THE FREAKING PACE ON THIS HERE BLOG

Expect updates accordingly.

<3, tim and rachel

Remember that time we closed registration to ROFLThing NYC really suddenly? It was a sad time for us too, and we’ve lost just as much sleep over it as you have: your wailing and gnashing of teeth have tormented our dreams. We’re sorry, we really are.

So sorry that we’ve decided to give you one last chance to get involved in this awesomeness. We’ve decided to bring you guys some Change You Can Believe In. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to LOL free! But you must act NOW.

We are auctioning off the last five tickets to ROFLThing, the ones we had been saving for our parents in case they ever chose to undisown us after creating the mess of ROFLCon the First*. The auction will only be open for 24 hours, so GET YOUR HUSTLE ON. Proceeds from each ticket will benefit a different charity or nonprofit that we <3, so you’ll actually be supporting a good cause in addition to repenting for your earlier procrastifail on obtaining tickets. Win-win!

Without further ado, the links to the auctions:

* ROFLTicket supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation
* ROFLTicket supporting Big Cat Rescue (in honor of our guest Sockington)
* ROFLTicket supporting the Internet Archive
* ROFLTicket supporting Global Voices
* ROFLTicket supporting New York Cares

All of these organizations need your help more than ever because of the recession. Coincidentally, you need ROFL in your life more than ever because of the recession too! Gee golly, sounds like you’d best click on them links and start bidding!

* Don’t worry guys, this isn’t actually true. Although I did have to explain Goatse to my mom, and that was really awkward…

Gah, been so busy getting things together that we didn’t realize we’re running out of time to announce new guests! So we’re picking up the pace — with a few others coming out of the gate later today.

In any amazing 11th hour surprise (we didn’t even know it was coming until late last week), we’re happy to announce that Jay Maynard, alias The Tron Guy, will be attending ROFLThing-NYC. You might remember Jay from his appearance at the original ROFLCon back in April with Dancing Matt, and from the original Slashdotting that boosted him to South Park and We Are The Web fame.

Score.

photo courtesy Kate Raynes-Goldie, CC BY NC SA

Gah, just talked to the folks at Santos about setting up seating and capacity for this Saturday, and I’m sorry to report that regrettably we’ve maxed out our registration for ROFLThing-NYC. So pool’s closed until further notice.

If you’d like to be on the waitlist — drop us a line at rachel.m AT roflcon DOT org and we’ll get you onto the list.  Thanks!