SXSW getting on your nerves? Some ephemera to stoke your ire fire
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First, a note: the thumb above was taken on 6th St., the main drag of the musical-festival-that-shan't-be-named. People stop and look at almost anything on 6th St. If there was a line of people applying Carmex to their elbows it would garner a crowd.
Oh god, the Fader Fort. Essentially a gambit to see how much advertising can be surreptitiously and culturo-relevantly projected onto the obsequious and far-too-drunk-this-early youth of America. A partial (!) list of this year's sponsors: Fiat, TDK, Pepsi, Guitar Center, and Bushmills. People paint car doors there, like you would if you wanted to ruin your car.
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And have you heard about the line to get into this place? It's long. Really really long. The picture below is roughly 3/5 of the slog:
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I took this photo to illustrate using visual metaphor the feeling surrounding the Fader Fort:
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And just down the street was this lovely banner, a siren call to the marginalized, reviled sect of people who like to pay to kill themselves:
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And finally, a little piece of Weird Austin. I don't know where you acquire lawn ornaments as um, fucking creepy as these, but I never want to go to there.
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The wonders! The wonders...
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