AUSTIN | Photos & Videos Thread

[H2O]

This is actually the beginning of the Lights out for Birds initiative to reduce bird strikes during annual migration. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/lo...0to%20navigate.

[lonewolf]

yes now and the next 2 weeks is peak migration for birds from SA > NA. obviously looking at a map of the americas you can see how texas is a bit of a choke point on this route. birds use stars to navigate and cities disorient and reroute them with bad consequences. turn off yer lights!

[ILUVSAT]

Originally Posted by lonewolf

yes now and the next 2 weeks is peak migration for birds from SA > NA. obviously looking at a map of the americas you can see how texas is a bit of a choke point on this route. birds use stars to navigate and cities disorient and reroute them with bad consequences. turn off yer lights!

Only some birds use the stars (more specifically - one star) to navigate. They do not know star patterns (constellations) themselves. However, they learn a north-south orientation based on a rotational star pattern.

Other migratory birds are known to rely on Earth's magnetic field to help them navigate the globe. And, it is suspected that a protein called cryptochrome, which is sensitive to blue light, was making it possible for birds to do this.

Researchers from UT-Southwestern and SMU found that cryptochromes from migratory birds have evolved a mechanism that enhances their ability to respond to light, which can enable them to sense and respond to magnetic fields.

There...your ornithology lesson for the day!

[gillynova]

[bilbao58]

These are mostly old...


Austin Clear Sunrise. December 26, 2007. on Flickr


Morning Clouds on Flickr


Looks Like Batman Should Live Up There on Flickr


Hot Coffee! on Flickr


1st Street Bridge on Flickr


Austin After a Heavy Rain on Flickr

[texboy]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

These are mostly old...


Austin Clear Sunrise. December 26, 2007. on Flickr


Morning Clouds on Flickr


Looks Like Batman Should Live Up There on Flickr


Hot Coffee! on Flickr


1st Street Bridge on Flickr


Austin After a Heavy Rain on Flickr

Man... hate to sound like an old timer, but those first few... That time period in Austin just hit different. Was still laid back and unpretentious. The Austin I like to remember. Great shots.

[austin242]

Agreed.

[myBrain]

Originally Posted by texboy

Man... hate to sound like an old timer, but those first few... That time period in Austin just hit different. Was still laid back and unpretentious. The Austin I like to remember. Great shots.

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

Yep.

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

[ski-man]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

Austin After a Heavy Rain on Flickr

You know there was heavy rain and/or flooding when Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake is brown........

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

Yeah. My quip about stuff like that is I'm sure there was some guy in the 1950s driving along in a dusty old farm truck whistling Hank Williams and shaking his head at some new housing development being advertised that was "Coming in 1960!"

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

I've never lived anywhere else, so it was always hard for me to imagine a "big Austin". I was mostly wishing for a few more tall buildings and maybe even a new tallest, but I had no idea it would grow the way it has. You have to remember Austin has really grown disproportionately relative to our size. Even the other Texas cities have not grown as much as we have relative to their size. Dallas and Houston have been big for a long time, and San Antonio also. If someone had told me we'd be what we are now, as big as we are and all of the big city stuff we have, I would have thought they were nuts. It really is one of those cases of not being able to see into the future and understand what it would truly be like even though you were trying to imagine it. It's kind of strange really, especially when you look back at old photos and ones that aren't even that old and realize just how far we've come in what is really a short amount of time.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by gillynova

Are these screenshots from a new movie/show?

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

We were ready to move out Of Austin in the mid-1980s, but procrastinated until I retired in 1995.

[urbancore]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

Bingo.

I feel the exact same way. I always wanted Austin to grow bigger, more diverse. Honestly, by far, most of the pretense I’ve witnessed came from NIMBYS.

[gabetx]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Are these screenshots from a new movie/show?

Nah those are drone shots from a Youtuber, HowToBeast... lmao!

[ATXboom]

Originally Posted by urbancore

Bingo.

I feel the exact same way. I always wanted Austin to grow bigger, more diverse. Honestly, by far, most of the pretense I’ve witnessed came from NIMBYS.

Same here

[corvairkeith]

This popped up in my facebook memories today. Going ALL the way back to 2014. A lot of change in not many years.

[gillynova]

Originally Posted by gabetx

Nah those are drone shots from a Youtuber, HowToBeast... lmao!

Bingo! A YouTuber who recently passed 1mil subscribers that used to live at the SEVEN apartments in downtown ATX for awhile but now recently moved to Houston. He's planning to buy property in ATX now though because he misses the vibe. He gets REALLY dope drone shots around the city

[ahealy]

Oh wow, I do not miss dog shit beach at auditorium shores....

Great trip down memory lane though! Soooo much change in such a short period of time. I can't wait to see what we'll be looking at in 10 years.