As distinguished patrons of the arts who appreciate a good LOL, Super Deluxe supported and attended the inaugural ROFLCon this past weekend, an in-person celebration of funny things on the Internet held in Cambridge, MA. Here are a few of our favorite moments:
From Sane Dave:
One of the shining moments of ROFLCon for me happened when the lights turned low on Jay Maynard, otherwise known as Tron Guy. I was incredibly impressed with what Jay had to say throughout the conference. At the end of his panel, Jay had the house lights turned down to show off his Tron costume in its full glory. He asked a couple of times for photographers not to use flash so that everyone could get the full effect of the elecroluminescent wire that makes up his costume. It was one meme invoking another and an apt ending to the panel when, in the darkness, Jay served a “FAIL” on one last photographer’s flash.
Here’s what it looked and sounded like:
From Squirrelene:
Sometimes nothing sparks a wave of introversion more than raising your solitary sweaty palm in the air to ask a question in a large lecture hall packed with unknown faces. I can do without that shit, thank you very much, which is why MIT’s simple web-based tool, backchan.nl, won at ROFLCon. The tool allows audience members (and even hungover conference attendees streaming from their hotel rooms) to easily ask questions, send comments and vote submissions up or down in a Reddit or Digg-like fashion, thereby sifting top questions onto the projection screen in the front of the room. Attendees were commenting freely, sending geek props, asking poignant questions — even pulling pranks.
During the Incubating The Mindvirus: Meme Infrastructures panel, attendees successfully rickrolled the entire session by submitting the lyrics to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” to the backchannel, even voting them in the proper reading order.
EPIC WIN.
The prank is only one of many highlights from ROFLCon. Explode even more awesome into your eyeballs by checking out photos from the Super Deluxe crew at ROFLCon here. Or more accurately, the photos and videos that hopefully won’t get us in deep with the man.
From Viva Hate:
Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Boston has never been so ROFL’ish a time!
From El Douche A:
I didn’t go to ROFLCon. But I did look at some of the pictures these guys took while they were there, and it looked like they had a lot of fun.
Cool sign. But I think “asshole” should be abbreviated like “a/s/h/l/e,” maybe.
Apparently, everybody went bowling with Brad Neely.
Walking, talking Internet memes have to eat lunch too.
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sounds like a fail rip-off of lulzcon.