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My first shot at a Gigapan |
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Downtown Austin looking North from the south bank of Lady Bird Lake. |
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What: 2008 State Fair of Texas
http://www.bigtex.com When: Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 Where: Fair Park, a 277-acre entertainment and recreation complex owned by the City of Dallas, is located two miles east of downtown. The park is the year-round home of the Music Hall, Cotton Bowl and eight museums. Fair Park is a National Historic Landmark and boasts the largest collection of art deco exposition buildings in the United States. Big Tex Big Tex made his debut at the 1952 State Fair of Texas. Wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, Tex towered 52' above wide-eyed visitors. His denim jeans and plaid shirt were donated by the H. D. Lee Company of Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Cosmetic surgery the following year straightened his nose, corrected a lascivious wink and allowed him to talk. From The Great State Fair of Texas – An Illustrated History, by Nancy Wiley. HISTORY: The first State Fair to be held in Dallas was presented at this location in 1886. Fair Park was the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition which ran for six months and attracted 6 million people. An extended 31-day Fair in 1986 celebrated the Texas Sesquicentennial and drew almost 4 million visitors. |
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This gigapan is 18 images high and 22 images wide, a total of 396 images that took over 10 hours for the GigaPan Stitcher to stitch (not very well I might add). "Blueprints" at Addison Circle is located in Addison Circle at Quorum Drive and Addison Circle Drive. Located in Addison Circle, this unique four-story sculpture offers a vision of Addison's past, present and future. A vase-like structure containing poles that reach out over the street are topped with five floating art panels, each a blueprint tracery of a phase in the town's development. - Stands 45 feet high and 140 feet across. - Blueprints art piece weighs 410,000 pounds, each pole weighs 9,000 pounds. It took more than 650-gallons of custom-mixed, Sherwin Williams "Sharpie Blue" paint for the piece. - Artists: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Mel Chin. Van Valkenburgh is a professor in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Chin is an artist, originally from Houston, now living in Burnsville, North Carolina and has been an artist in residence at University of Georgia and Stanford University. - Grand "Unveiling" event: April 13, 2000 - Total cost for the sculpture is 2.1 million dollars For more info go to - http://www.addisontexas.net/what_to_do/Attractions/blueprints.asp |
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360 Bridge with Austin Country Club in the middle ground and the City of Austin in the Background |
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San Antonio Astronomical Association's weekly star party at the lower bee tree soccer fields at McAllister Park every Wednesday night at dusk weather permitting. For more info go to www.sanantonioastronomy.org/ |
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I wasn't quite fast enough to catch the best color of this fast fading sunburst, but I got enough of it to give you a hint of what the robot missed. |
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Downtown Austin, looking east, at the site of the new home of Austin City Limits. City Hall is the dark building on the right. |
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A hand shot view of the pool at the Austin Motel. |