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Austin American-Statesman: Burnt Orange Productions stops making films
I'm disappointed but not surprised to see this project fold. Although I had some concerns about the ethics of building a business based on student labor, it was great to see students get big-budget experience.
utexas  austin  film  education 
july 2008 by McChris
City of Austin: 311 Citywide Customer Information Center
This web form allows Austin residents to report failing city infrastructure, such as poor bicycle facilities or broken traffic signals.
austin  cycling  useful 
june 2008 by McChris
Bicycle Film Festival 2008: Austin
"More info coming soon."
film  austin  bicycle  to:attend 
may 2008 by McChris
Treasure City: Another Fire!: Next door
Here's an interesting perspective on the recent fire on East 12th street. The intersection with Chicon has to be the creepiest in Austin, and this post explains that the house that burned was used for illegal drug distribution.
austin  crime  drugs 
february 2008 by McChris
Bike Snob NYC: Apoca-Watch Update: Retirees on Tall Bikes
Ever reliable, the bike snob mocks photos of Lance Armstrong riding a hacked-together tall bike at what appears to be art gallery Okay Mountain.
austin  cycling  humor  hack 
january 2008 by McChris
door64.com: Austin High-Tech Online
This site aggregates information about technology networking events in Austin.
austin  to:attend 
december 2007 by McChris
Seattle Weekly: Austin Cantina Delights in Lone Star Specialties
Austin Cantina is an Austin-themed restaurant in downtown Seattle. Living in Austin, this seems like a strange idea, but, from reading the review, it doesn't sound like the recipes are very true to Austin.
austin  Seattle  food  review  weird 
november 2007 by McChris
The Sound of Crickets Chirping: Problems for Texas Startups
Sean McCullough suggests that because Austin Ventures is the only major VC organization in Texas, smaller and more interesting startups are stymied in Austin and Texas.
austin  texas  business  telecom 
october 2007 by McChris
St. Edwards Park
This looks like a good place to hike after work.
austin  hiking 
october 2007 by McChris
Texas Fair Trade Coalition: Austin City Council Approves SweatFree Ordinance!
This is old, but good news.This city of Austin will not buy sweated goods in its procurement process. I wish UT - heck the NCAA - had a similar policy.
austin  labor  clothing  publicpolicy 
september 2007 by McChris
austin indymedia: Bicycles and the Global War on Terror
An Austin anarchist describes being detained by a state trooper for running a red light on his bicycle. He makes some good points in spite of the antagonistic tone.
austin  cycling  indymedia  anarchism  lawenforcement 
may 2007 by McChris
Austinist: Friday Night Lights Still On, and Staying Here
Yay hooray! NBC has ordered twenty-two more episodes.
TVnetworks  TV  austin 
may 2007 by McChris
Goodbye Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, hello Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz
The Alamo cinema chain's downtown location is moving from the Warehouse District to the old Ritz theater on Sixth Street. An Alamo projectionist and RTF doctoral student discusses the implications of the move.
austin  film 
march 2007 by McChris
Guide to SXSW 2007 Side Parties
This cool Google Maps mashup could use some UX work (it seems like categories are often mutually exclusive) but it's still nice to have this interface for locating frooze.
googlemaps  mashup  austin  sxsw 
march 2007 by McChris
Unknown City: SXSW Free SHows 2007
Lou from the J-School maintains a list each year of free showcases at SXSW, which is perfect for cheap grad students like me. Someone has to go to the free Public Enemy show with me Friday night.
music  gradschool  austin  sxsw 
march 2007 by McChris
FringeWare Chronology: 1992 - 1996
JonL points to this chronology of the underground bookstore of yesteryear.
books  zine  history  weird  austin 
march 2007 by McChris
Austin Chronicle: You mean open source hasn't saved the world yet?
Jon Lebkowsky lays out open-source issues for a popular audience.
austin  freeculture  sxsw  opensource 
march 2007 by McChris
Friday Night Lights photoset on Flickr
Fellow Sooner Omar Gallaga has posted images taken at a shoot for the best new show on TV.
image  austin  TV  sports  Flickr  football 
february 2007 by McChris
Wingnut blogging lynch mob strikes again!: Where's the Fire?
After landing a job with the Edwards campaign, Austin blogger Amanda Marcotte was forced out by pressure from religious conservatives.
blog  politics  austin 
february 2007 by McChris
RIAA Identifies 12 Piracy “Hot Spot” Cities
"Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, San Diego, and San Francisco – are all “hot spots” of music theft, with significant piracy problems from the manufacturer level all the way down to t
austin  media  intellectualproperty 
january 2007 by McChris
Scenes from a Snuff(leupagus) Film
Not even Big Bird was immune to the great Austin bird die-off of 2007.
austin  humor  silly 
january 2007 by McChris
YouTube: War Pigs
The Flaming Lips and Chan Marshall of Cat Power cover Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" on Austin City LImits. I teach in the building where ACL is taped.
video  indierock  OKC  austin  YouTube 
december 2006 by McChris
The Texas Observer: The Spies of Texas
"Newfound files detail how UT-Austin police tracked the lives of Sixties dissidents." Lloyd Doggett, Janis Joplin, and Kinky Friedman were all under surveillance.
austin  utexas  surveillance  lawenforcement  history  politics 
november 2006 by McChris
Joystiq: Girl in Austin not sure about PS3, waits in line for fun
This video is so Austin on so many levels. First, only in Austin do people stand in line just because something seems cool and, secondly, bundle up for 60-degree weather.
austin  stupid  gaming  video 
november 2006 by McChris
Treasure City Thrift
"Treasure City Thrift is a collectively run non-profit thrift store designed to raise money for small local grassroots community groups." Chicon and 12th is a pretty scary intersection, but I'll have to check this place out.
austin  thrifting  anarchism 
october 2006 by McChris
Was 'Idiocracy' treated idiotically?
"Fox is doing zero marketing for the movie — no trailers, posters, television spots or even press kits for media outlets." Conspiracy theories are flying around Austin about Mike Judge's latest picture.
film  austin  distribution  weird 
september 2006 by McChris
Lights Out: The halcyon days of film programming at the University of Texas
An older story that discusses how the VCR killed public screenings at UT-Austin.
film  video  utexas  austin  oldmedia  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Austin Bike Culture
The Yellow BIke Project is hosting a wiki for information about cycling events and history in Austin.
wiki  bicycle  austin  activism  transportation 
august 2006 by McChris
The City's Wireless Mesh Explained, Part one...
This very informative post describes the political, technical, legal, and economic forces that led to the design of the outdoor wireless network in downtown Austin.
austin  wifi  politics  utilities 
august 2006 by McChris
About the Emergency Blogcasting System
"The Emergency Blogcasting System is an association of Austin-area weblog authors who will respond to a regional disaster with communication and citizen reporting enabled through blogging." hmmm, I presume these are disasters that leave the local internet
blog  disaster  austin  citizensmedia 
august 2006 by McChris
2007 SXSW Interactive Panel Proposal Picker
Via Prentiss, vote for ten of the most appealing SXSWi panels. This is your chance to improve the representation of women at the conference, if you're so inclined.
sxsw  austin  conference  webdesign  Web2.0  geek  gender 
august 2006 by McChris
Museum of Ephemerata – Grand Closing of MACHINES - August 5, 7-10pm
I plan on attending this.
austin  event  to:attend  geek  art  DIY 
august 2006 by McChris
Blank on a Blank Filmmaking Challenge completed films
You can view entries from Alamo Drafthouse's Blank on a Blank contest on this page. Contestant received a randomly-generated pair of items like "Sloths on a Tank" for the basis of their flims.
sloth  contest  film  cheese  austin 
august 2006 by McChris
International Home Movie Day in Austin
This sounds pretty cool.
film  austin  memory  archive  event 
august 2006 by McChris
Guidelines for Austin Bloggers Metablog Postings
Props to Chip for formallizing the norms of the site. I'm a little tired of reading conspiracy theories about what gets pulled from the metablog. Hopefully this will make things a little more clear.
austin  blog  localism 
july 2006 by McChris
Urban Austin
Wiki "devoted to the architecture and urban design of Austin, Texas."
austin  texas  landuse  architecture  publicpolicy 
june 2006 by McChris
dorkbot-austin
Austin finally has a Dorkbot chapter. It's first get-together is June 8th, which will have been yesterday by the time it hits this blog.
austin  geek  dorkbot  DIY  hack 
june 2006 by McChris
Burnt Orange Nation :: Moderately Disturbing Picture Of The Day
A photo of heerleaders posing with a Bevo fursuit incites indignation from football fans. The commenters clearly have wilder imaginations than I.
austin  utexas  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
UT officials warn students against touching bats
Don't touch the bats!!!
stupid  wildlife  austin  utexas 
april 2006 by McChris
Austin Pillow Fight
Video footage from the local paper of the Austin pillow fight.
austin  silly  video  newspaper 
april 2006 by McChris
Pillow Fight Club
Craigslist post announcing a mass pillow fight in Austin.
austin  craigslist  silly 
april 2006 by McChris
SXSW Guidelines redux
Austin advice for visitors by my former apartment manager.
austin  sxsw  humor  localism 
march 2006 by McChris
Unknown City: Free SXSW
Lou keeps track of free events during SXSW. Day shows are really pretty fun and often have free beer.
sxsw  austin  music 
march 2006 by McChris
It's Just this Little Chromium Switch Here: Three Most Important Things
Chip re-enacts an incident with his neighbors using "The Sims."
thereal  gaming  austin 
march 2006 by McChris
The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown: A victim of its own success
A drafthouse employee and RTF doctoral candidate laments the looming closure of the downtown specialty theater.
film  austin  business 
march 2006 by McChris
MTV Attempting to make Austin the most boring city in America
MTV to document "alternative spring break" action devoted to protesting the death penalty in Texas.
austin  TV  thereal  politics 
february 2006 by McChris
Web site sells messages that stick
story about Austin sticker maker bumperactive.com. Who knew the LBJ library had an archive of political bumper stickers?
austin  bumperactive  politics  sticker 
february 2006 by McChris
End of an Ear
looks like the best record store has a website.
austin  vinyl  music  records 
february 2006 by McChris
october_jackie: good-bye to the Ritz :(
LiveJournal entry on the closure of one of Austin's most distinctive dives
austin  punk  gaming 
february 2006 by McChris
Black Star Pub Cooperative Austin's Community-Owned Beer COOP Bar
austin  co-op  DIY 
february 2006 by McChris
pbwiki :: barcamp | BarCampAustin
bar camp comes to Austin. It seems silly that they're having it at the same time as SXSWi
austin  geek 
february 2006 by McChris
Man-Child in the Promised Land
Lovely <i>NYTimes</i> profile of Daniel Johnson
austin  art  music 
february 2006 by McChris
Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq
Historians against the War conference coming to UT
history  austin  anti-war 
february 2006 by McChris
Second Fire Destroys KOOP Facilities
radio  citizensmedia  austin 
february 2006 by McChris
Official Tags for SXSW 2006
Designated folksonomic tags for SXSW bands.
austin  semantic_web  music  folksonomy 
february 2006 by McChris
The Austin Chronicle: News: KUT by the Numbers
politicaleconomy  media  radio  NPR  austin 
january 2006 by McChris
Richard Linklater on the 20th Anniversary of the Austin Film Society
austin  film  indie 
january 2006 by McChris
The Austin Chronicle: News: Snoring Out Loud
article about the local paper's blogging experiments
austin  blog  journalism 
january 2006 by McChris
Publish your bumper sticker in the Austin Chronicle!
contest for bumper sticker designs in Austin
austin  sticker  contest  bumperactive 
january 2006 by McChris

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