CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP…deep in the heart of Texas!

Austin is fun. The Hilton here is amazing.  I’m on the 21st floor and I have an amazing view of the city. The hotel is only two years old, and it is staffed with a small army.  I ran into one guy I went to high school with; that was cool.

Texas is so strange; here in Austin it couldn’t be more true.  First off, Texas has taken its graphical identity, the lone star, to a whole new level.  This thing is everywhere, more so than Wal-Mart’s damn smiley face.  Texas remindes me a bit of the logo/branding scene in Spaceballs the Movie; they put the star on streets, sidewalks, floors, walls, buildings, artwork, bulletpoints, receipts, toilet paper–you name it.

For your pleasure, I have a small photo essay of the Texas lonestar obsession: