Austin, Texas - The Animation Show

April 24th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Texas, austin |

Went out projecting with the crew from Mike Judge’s The Animation Show. We started off with an interactive american flag on the University of Texas’ campus. The piece was going well when a few fellows wrote the ‘n’ word along with some asian slurs. The UT police proceeded to shut the event down, I don’t blame them. When given the chance to write something spontaneous and anonymous, you are going to write the ‘n’ word? I’m not surprised, since I see a lot of ’silliness,’ but I wonder what’s going through someone’s mind to decide to write that. On the other side, given today’s politics, seeing the ‘n’ word being said by the american flag is somewhat appropriate and telling. But I don’t think the fellas that sent in the hate were trying to comment on societal belief’s. We then biked down to The Alamo theater and put up some more speech bubbles. Special thanks to Robert and Rebecca from the animation show and Sheldon and Bridget along for the ride.