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Futuristic Dome Habitats Today

If you’ve gone up I-35 between Austin and Dallas, you’ve probably seen the giant concrete dome caterpillar at the same exit that has the concrete dome starship-shaped gift shop. I looked it up. It’s a group called Monolithic that makes buildings by schmearing concrete over giant balloons. As you might imagine, their website claims that

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Pinballz: fun, plus a salacious name

Just when you thought that the institution of the arcade was dead, swallowed by home gaming systems and slightly upsetting subcultures, along comes Pinballz Arcade. Located along Research BLVD, this two-story arcade boasts over 80 pinball games. And certainly they have every pinball game I ever loved. Including this rare heads-up video display pinball game.

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Meditating on Rambutan

In a basket on a shelf in a discrete corner of the produce section of the local organic grocer, one finds the rambutan. You think to yourself, this looks interesting. It’s red and spiny. It has that particularly tropical look to it that seems so out of place in an American supermarket. You want to

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Taco cart near my bus stop

This is a food frakker post, but really, it’s also another in the series of “things along my commute.” I really wish this taco cart was open when I got off the bus in the morning. It advertises breakfast tacos, but if it’s not open at 9am, then I’m not sure what sort of breakfast

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Swarm of Mourning Doves

My new house has a bird feeder in the back yard, so one of my first thoughts on moving in was, hey, wouldn’t it be great to have a birdfeeder out the back window, so I could see all the new and exciting birds in this new neighborhood. So I bought some seed and poured

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Many Views of a Cloud

About a month ago, right at sunset, there was this huge cloud over Austin. At the time we were a bit short of rain, so it was an extra-exciting event. So I was inspired to shoot this time-lapse of the event. Right, so it’s a cloud, right? As it turns out, I wasn’t the only

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Buses, Cap Metro and Art

Another entry in my series on “things I see from the bus.” I heard about the bus bench art project back when I was regularly commenting on Austin public transportation issues, and as it happens, my bus route goes right past the bench in question. The media involved: one bus bench and a variety pack

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