South By Southwest (SXSW) is a Music, Film, and Interactive festival that takes place in Austin during Spring Break. This year, the festival spans from March 7-16, 2014.
On Wednesday, I got back to Austin after spending a few days with family. I was driving back into town with Kim, when we checked Twitter to see that one of our favorite musicians, Donald Glover (Childish Gambino), was having an estate sale in Austin. We got really excited at the opportunity to be able to see him in person, so we decided to go check it out.
We reached the Austin city limits at around 2:30 P.M. The Estate sale was going on until 4:00 P.M. We were nervous that we wouldn't make it on time, so we took turns changing in the car. 30 minutes of awkwardly changing, switching places at stop lights, and inaccurately putting on makeup, we arrived at the mansion where the sale was going on.
There was a good amount of people, but not too much. They still had a good selection of merchandise left, so we bought some shirts. Childish Gambino, though, was sitting on a swing by himself, so I tried to approach him. I was stopped about halfway to him. Apparently, they were shooting a scene for his screenplay, and as he was getting into character he didn't speak to anyone.
After about ten minutes of admiring him from afar, everyone was asked to leave due to the sale being over.
So, we picked up Rigo and went to a strip mall because I needed to buy a special shampoo for my hair. After, we shopped around and ate, then went home to get ready for whatever the night would bring.
We called Albert, and he and his brother joined Kim, Rigo and I at Kim's apartment. We got ready, hung out for a bit, then took a bus downtown.
Our first stop was a free light exhibit that was taking place at an area of land on 4th street.
It was breathtakingly beautiful to see so many structures lit up, and the entire experience was magical. There was even a luminescent grand piano that lit up whenever it was played, which was wonderful to watch and listen to.
At the exhibit, there was a bunch of balloons that changed colors. Rigo, Kim, and I wanted one, so I went up to the people that were setting it up and asked if I could buy one. Although they weren't for sale, one of the men was kind enough to give us a balloon each for free. He even went out of his way as to add a light (that didn't change color) to our balloons.
While Robert, the man who gave us the balloons, was getting our balloons ready, we talked to Jojo, another man who was helping with the exhibit, and he answered any and all of our questions. They were with Jon Morris and The Windmill Factory with Robert Base and LumiGeek.
The rest of the night was spent wandering around Sixth Street and seeing everything that was going on around us.
It was absolutely wonderful and a great way to welcome ourselves back to Austin.
-TBCG
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