Keep Austin Weird

The unofficial motto of this town, is "Keep Austin Weird". A local librarian, Red Wassenich, first uttered the phrase back in 2000, when phoning his pledge to a local radio station. I've heard it quite a bit along with sighs about the seemingly inevitable condo high-rise development downtown and incursions of big-box retail.

I took this photo at a weird RV park in South Austin. It's in a Texas Documentary Photographers' exhibit at BookPeople, the best independent bookstore ever. The griffin is from BookPeople's Harry Potter opening release party a while back, and the woman, Flip, is BookPeople's cafe manager. The show runs thru Feb 14.