SXSW 2006
Today sees the start of the very fashionable South by SouthWest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately none of us at GGSS Towers are going along to give a talk or see a band or anything. But we can of course post photos of the Austin Conference Center where some of the events happen. There are other nice sites in Austin, the capitol building is pretty impressive and was puposely built to be 14 feet taller than the Nation’s Capital in DC. The Congress Avenue Bridge is apparently home to the world’s largest urban bat population. You can’t see any bats of course in the daytime photo so you’ll just imagine them all, lurking under there…
We hope everyone who is attending the conference has a great time.
Thanks: Cos, notmrjohn & Bryan Grudowski
I took some ground level shots:...”
Jim Noir’s playing it!!
check out his website here: http://www.jimnoir.com
i’m only saying this cos i did his website.
Festival looks awesome. Would love to wander round Austin like in that film Slacker.
And the man Roky Erikson was from there too (I think).
You’re a brave man, I wouldn’t've openly confessed to making that website.
Yes, certainly that http://cannedlaughter.net/ site is far superior…
Austin, Tx checking in here. Ready for all you tourists!
FYI: That is actually the 1st Street Bridge, the Congress street bridge is just to the east of it.
The bats must done some weird things to the bridge then; it looks weird, with some sort of imaging error.
*consults bible to make sense of diss*
*struggles*
*gives up*
Hey you can actually see the pink granite used to build the Texas Capitol.