NYC COMICON Secret Identity Pub Quiz + The Sky Captains of Industry + Eric Vitoff + Howell Dawdy @ The Way Station

8-10pm- NYC COMICON Secret Identity Pub Quiz presented by Ghostery

Does it bug you that all Clark Kent has to do is take off his glasses and put his underwear on the outside in order for no one to figure out that he’s Superman? Did you know that Spider-Man was revealed to be Peter Parker in issue #12, but nobody believed it? If so, you might just take secret identities a little more serious than everybody else. You should come and join the Ghostery crew for Secret Identity Pub Quiz, part of New York Super Week. We’ll be asking questions about all types of secrets - so even if you’ve never heard of Clark Kent or Peter Parker, join us for a fun night of beverage and trivia.

Andy Kahl

Andy Kahl is an industry and privacy analyst who has been crunching data for more than a decade. His entry into the world of data-driven marketing came in 2006 as an analyst for online ad exchange Right Media, and he continued that work when the company was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007.

Andy has been working on the privacy side of the fence since 2010, when he signed up to work on a little-known browser extension called Ghostery. Since then he’s helped a talented team grow Ghostery into the web’s leading consumer transparency tool, and his insights into the advertising industry and consumer privacy have been featured in the Altantic, the Financial Times, Huffington Post, and on CNN International.

Andy is based in New York where he lives with his wife and two sons, who routinely beat him at video games.

Jib Hunt

Senior consumer marketing and creative director with 15 years experience ushering infancy stage and established brands. Industries include internet, technology, consumer brands, telecommunications, and action sports. Jib is a former pro snowboarder, plays drums in a band, and lives with his wife and three kids in New Jersey.

10:15pm- The Sky Captains of Industry

Genre: Spacebilly/Folktronica

For fans of: Old-time rock and roll, science fiction, space, post-apocalyptica

The Sky Captains of Industry came from the future to inform you about the upcoming apocalypse and/or to rock it to rubble.

The Sky Captains of Industry: Are they men? Are they machines? Will they indeed save the rest of your heart?

http://www.skycaptainsofindustry.com/

http://sci-fidelity.bandcamp.com/

11pm- Eric Vitoff

Genre: looping/acoustic/house/dance

For fans of: Daft Punk, James Blake, Reggie Watts, John Mayer, Bag Raiders

Long Island born and raised and now Brooklyn based, Eric Vitoff’s tunes toe the imaginary line between the genres of house/dance and acoustic singer-songwriter. Equipped just with an acoustic guitar and some effects pedals, he builds pulsing, colorful beats that make your feet move and your mind wonder just where all those sounds are coming from.

www.ericvitoff.com/songs

www.soundcloud.com/ericvitoff

www.youtube.com/evsweep

The Midnight Special- Howell Dawdy

Genre: Comedy/Spoken Word/Electronic For fans of: Reggie Watts / Beck / The Streets (UK)

Howell Dawdy is a spoken word entertainer, MC, and poet with a unique voice cleverly deconstructing the mundane and the absurd. His songs are about relationships, creativity, film, isolation, social skills, each subject thoroughly analyzed with a bizarre and often dark twist. Howell attacks the motivation of a minor character in the film Life of Pi; he presents a meticulous defense of the lifestyle of an average house ghost; he spends an entire song extolling the value of the song itself. The music of Howell Dawdy is infectious yet distinct; his songs are crammed with memorable hooks but as idiosyncratic as the voice they accompany.

“Howell Dawdy will break your finest China and splinter your brain grapes with his sublime rhymes” - Syd Bishop, Never-Nervous.com

“Here’s some “art rap” from an artist who calls himself Howell Dawdy” - Louisville Music News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2WehkjuJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBGxDXP3v0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da2LA8sXNaE