How I Became An Unintentional Publisher
Being a publisher lets me do what I love to do: write, paint, photograph, read, design, learn, share, repeat.
Growth
Unexpected Rewards and Opportunities at Year’s End
As the year ends, an unexpected prize is awarded to What’s Vanishing Next? and an opportunity to pay it forward is bestowed.
What kind of city will Austin be?
The question that emerged from the Vanishing Austin interview on KOOP 91.7 FM today was, what kind of city will Austin be? Will we become another Dallas (as some fear); will we allow development to overtake our historic fabric, in effect, stealing our spirit (much as some Native Americans feel about photographic images made of them)? […]
Talking about our neighborhood
KOOP Radio Host David Kobierowski has generously scheduled an hour this Wednesday, February 10 from noon-1 pm on 91.7 FM KOOP Radio’s “A Neighborly Conversation” for an interview with me about Vanishing Austin. I’ll be in-studio to discuss my on-going photography series that captures what’s vanishing (or endangered) in Austin–the places, buildings, landmarks and gems […]
On the heels of the closing of the Cactus Cafe
We’re still reeling from the news that the Cactus Cafe is closing, and now this: Preservation Texas announces that Austin’s entire downtown is endangered. Fans of Vanishing Austin have long suspected this. I’ve been documenting change in Austin since arriving here in 2004 with my on-going photography series, Vanishing Austin. The announcement that an entire […]
Austin’s recent newcomers come not to change it, but to join it
The Austin-American Statesman’s Michael Barnes is out and about Austin alot (as implied by his column’s name) and has been for a long while–a point he makes eloquently in a 3-part blog series as he examines the three phases of Austin’s development with an all-inclusive approach to change in our city, and an optimistic conclusion […]