The People Keeping Austin Weird During SXSW

Visually standing out in the vacuous ocean of indie rock losers that is SXSW requires some real pizazz. Sometimes you just need to look and act like a freak to finally be noticed. Hey, why not walk around with a fake chicken all day? Or how about wearing toe shoes and a pink helmet in addition to your white person dreads? Or maybe if we’re really lucky, someone will just slap some sunglasses on their big fat dog and call it a day. Steven Ruud hit intersections surrounding Red River and 6th to document the world of keeping Austin weird.