Keeping Austin Weird...

M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
edited April 29, 2011 in Street and Documentary
Only in Austin will you find a homeless person playing a piano placed on a pedestrian bridge at city center...

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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Well it is the music capital:)

    Austin is so cool, and this is a nice and fitting tribute to the city because it is weird and it showing music.
    I also like that it shows a homeless person in a different light.

    btw--is the piano part of an art installation throughout the city?
    Liz A.
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    Well it is the music capital:)

    Austin is so cool, and this is a nice and fitting tribute to the city because it is weird and it showing music.
    I also like that it shows a homeless person in a different light.

    btw--is the piano part of an art installation throughout the city?

    Liz-
    Yes it is! There's currently a big push on for 'music art' around the city. This is just one of the installations and others are rolling out about this time. I might try to make a series of them as some are quite extravagant.

    As far as the homeless guy, he really could play that piano. There's probably a ton of talent locked up in the homeless around the community if it only had a viable outlet to be shared with others.
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Yes please, keep Austin weird!
  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    A little more info on this.....

    There's 14 of them around Austin for one month as part of the "Play me, I'm yours" art project. Not much time left to photograph all of them, but they appear to be in close proximity of one another so I might be able to do a series. The shot above came from location #8.

    Details on the project:
    http://www.streetpianos.com/austin2011/

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  • FlyNavyFlyNavy Registered Users Posts: 1,350 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Yes indeed a great city!
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  • slpollettslpollett Registered Users Posts: 1,219 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Great shot! I've seen photos of some of the other pianos around town, but this one of yours is the best I've seen yet.

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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Sherry-
    Thank you for the kind words....
  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2011
    Awesome photo! Great town, we love it here.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited April 27, 2011
    Cool shot. What a great idea to put pianos around the city. I love it.
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  • Chuck289Chuck289 Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited April 27, 2011
    "How to have a party" lol3.gif Perfect!
    Great picture.
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2011
    If I wasn't so 'under the weather', I'd try and shoot the others around city center today. Doc says three or so days and I'll be good as new and I'm not limited in what I do. Maybe tomorrow......
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