Today the Father Figure and I went to meet up with 9AM for lunch at an Austin original, Threadgill's, to get some southern home cookin' before heading downtown to tour the capitol building and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. I had never actually taken the capitol tour, so that was a nice way to spend some time and catch up on learning my Texas history (if I want to be an official citizen and all). However, that was a lot of walking and by the end of it we were a little too pooped to pop. We hoofed it back to the Bullock and decided to head back home once we got rousted by a security cop for not paying the admission fee. We were cheap and decided that $8/person was too much to pay for more Texas history that we wouldn't remember. Besides, it was getting late anyway.
Before we made that trek, though, I decided to drive him by the Governor's mansion (since it's still closed down due to being lit on fire a couple of months ago) and take him down Congress street into South Congress to show him how things have been gentrified and what is going on as a whole in Austin, and also to take him down Barton Springs to show him the original Chuy's and Zilker Park where the Austin City Limits festival is held. While we were down there in SoCo, I discovered a little graffiti enclave just one block south of Home Slice pizza right on Congress:
There were several buildings there that were covered with high-quality graffiti much like the tagging that I came across last week near Katz's Deli. I'm pretty sure that at least one of the artists is the same due to the reappearance of the three-eyed head and at least one of the same tags. I didn't get more pictures because I had dad with me and had left him in the running car on the curb so I could snap the pictures, and I was also unsure of whether or not I was trespassing on private property or something and felt a little weird about snapping a bunch of pictures with my camera phone. However, I think that some Saturday I'll get one of my photography buddies to head on down there with me and catalog the stuff that's down there. I think I'm going to make that my own little flickr project: a pictorial record of Austin graffiti.



