AUSTIN | Photos & Videos Thread - Page 70

Mopacs · #**1381** Posted **Jan 25, 2016, 5:01 AM**

Taken yesterday from Barton Creek Mall (1/23).

JoninATX · #**1382** Posted **Jan 26, 2016, 2:38 AM**

Very nice Mopacs, I took this one earlier today at Graffiti Park @ Castle Hill.

The ATX · #**1383** Posted **Jan 26, 2016, 3:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Very nice Mopacs, I took this one earlier today at Graffiti Park @ Castle Hill.

I guess Graffiti Park is the popular name now. Is it an actual city park now? I still call it the Baylor Art Wall.

JoninATX · #**1384** Posted **Jan 26, 2016, 3:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

I guess Graffiti Park is the popular name now. Is it an actual city park now? I still call it the Baylor Art Wall.

Not sure if it's an actual city park. But I guess it could, there were alot of people there this afternoon spray painting and taking pictures. I even met one couple from Wisconsin that heard about it out the internet.

drummer · #**1385** Posted **Jan 26, 2016, 3:31 PM**

It certainly has become an attraction in its own right. It seems like the city could take it on.

MichaelB · #**1386** Posted **Jan 26, 2016, 4:40 PM**

It's called "Hope Outdoor Gallery".

http://hopecampaign.org/hopeprojects...tdoor-gallery/

Meagan0803 · #**1387** Posted **Jan 27, 2016, 10:51 PM**

I haven't seen this on the board yet. Anybody have a larger version?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/286752701252474897/

BevoLJ · #**1388** Posted **Feb 6, 2016, 2:43 PM**

• Video Link

_Matt · #**1389** Posted **Feb 8, 2016, 6:45 PM**

I liked this view from the video:

nygirl1 · #**1390** Posted **Feb 8, 2016, 10:54 PM**

What is that very tall building they keep using for the skyline?

the Genral · #**1391** Posted **Feb 8, 2016, 11:22 PM**

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What is that very tall building they keep using for the skyline?

I'd like to know too.

KevinFromTexas · #**1392** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 12:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by nygirl1

What is that very tall building they keep using for the skyline?

That image was inspired by forum member Kotliz's image who created the original version, which the creator of that video then edited a bit.

The tallest tower there is a photoshopped image of the north side of 360 Condominiums. In Kotliz's image, he added a shrunken image of the top of the UT Tower for the crown, and then added a spire atop that. He then placed it in the photo that the Tree apartment project used for their marketing.

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Originally Posted by Kotliz

How about this. Just over 800 to the roof, then just around a thousand to the top of the spire. The skyline still would look better with a couple more 600-700 foot additions. The Fairmont might be too far west in this view to give any visual balance.
(Original photo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps48c637ed.jpg)

Here is the original photo that the Tree apartment building in Austin used for their marketing.

Tree - https://www.facebook.com/LiveAtTree/...type=3&theater

Kotliz also followed that up with this 2nd image, in which he added the Burj Khalifa to Austin's skyline. This is a real building in Dubai, UAE. It's 2,717 feet tall.

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Originally Posted by Kotliz

This is a rough estimate. The Burj Khalifa is about 3.98x taller than the Austonian (2722 feet / 683 feet) and trying to take into account the vertical perspective, it might be something along this line. Anyone??
(Not a great fit for us, I think)
(Original photo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps48c637ed.jpg
Burj Khalifa image from Wikimedia)

lzppjb · #**1393** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 1:08 AM**

lol can you even imagine how much of a building that big would sit empty for years in Austin?

wwmiv · #**1394** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 2:01 AM**

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lol can you even imagine how much of a building that big would sit empty for years in Austin?

Can you imagine how much of that building sits empty in Dubai, a metro smaller than Austin, and with a smaller economy (albeit not directly comparable), much greater wealth inequality, and a gigantic reliance on very fragile tourism industry built on unsustainable economics?

... albeit it has perhaps a higher profile globally ...

drummer · #**1395** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 3:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Can you imagine how much of that building sits empty in Dubai, a metro smaller than Austin, and with a smaller economy (albeit not directly comparable), much greater wealth inequality, and a gigantic reliance on very fragile tourism industry built on unsustainable economics?

... albeit it has perhaps a higher profile globally ...

But at least Tom Cruise got to climb it in a movie, so it has that going for it...

The ATX · #**1396** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 6:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

But at least Tom Cruise got to climb it in a movie, so it has that going for it...

From what I can tell many of those Dubai towers are largely empty. But the info isn't really forthcoming.

KevinFromTexas · #**1397** Posted **Feb 16, 2016, 3:03 AM**

Video Link

drummer · #**1398** Posted **Feb 16, 2016, 4:10 AM**

Drones are taking the ability to view a city to new heights.

airwx · #**1399** Posted **Feb 17, 2016, 1:08 AM**

A new little bit of art popped up on the back of the dumpster enclosure at the Dairy Queen at Burnet and Buell.

_Matt · #**1400** Posted **Feb 17, 2016, 4:25 PM**

I can't stop staring at that bird and it's damn high beak.