Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
I just returned from 5 days in Terlingua, Texas where every year since 1967 the Original International Championship Chili Cookoff has been held. This year my two friends Tom Nall of Republic Tequila and Patrick “Sidekick” Hendricks rode 80 miles on horseback from Alpine, Texas to raise money for ALS research. They rode no less than 8 hours a day in the saddle which is no easy task and spent all three nights out under the stars. Through their ride they raised an amazing $15,000 for the charity. Congratulations to Tom and Sidekick and we’ll see you guys next year in Terlingua!
After the jump are a couple more photographs I took of them as they rode in to camp from Study-Butte.
Logan Caldbeck has been documenting hunting paraphernalia in small Vermont and West Texas towns for the past three years. Growing up with no running water and electricity, Calbeck’s photographs attempt to capture the tradition among various areas of similar experience. I will be exploring West Texas and New Mexico again in January and hopefully I will get a chance to meet Logan. Her work is soft, courageous, and undeniably honest.
Most racial maps lump groups of people in to blobs that make it difficult to see what the real meshing of ethnic groups is like, so inspired by Bill Rankin’s Chicago Map, Eric Fischer created maps of many US cities using a similar methodology. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian and Orange is Hispanic. Gray is other and each dot represents 25 people.
The above map details Austin’s makeup as of the 2000 census, but after the jump we’ve got a few of the bigger cities around the US for your perusal. It’s important to note something something that Andrew Price of GOOD wrote about these maps:
What do we, as a society, want to see in maps like this? I think it’s safe to say that the clear separation of races in Detroit is a symptom (or cause) of serious social problems. At the same time, it seems unrealistic to expect perfect integration and it’s unclear if we should want that anyway. It’s great that our cities have vibrant ethnic neighborhoods.
I recently photographed a woman named Sarah Reveley at the Alamo in San Antonio for Texas Monthly. It is featured in the most recent issue’s article titled No Retreat! No Surrender! about the recent struggles Sarah has faced with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Summer is a Monster! It pulls you in and eats you alive. You can’t escape it. The best thing to do is give in, put on your Wayfarers, and head to the pool!
Shaun’s new posters were inspired by summertime in the city we love, Austin TX. Get them here , or in the School Supplies shop. View more after the jump.
