The Blue Hit @ Momo’s

§ January 17th, 2011 § Filed under music § Tagged 6th street, austin, austin music, band, concert, folk music, momo's, the blue hit § No Comments

On Saturday my brother took me to see The Blue Hit headline at Momo’s.  Great show.   Check them out if you’re into folksy music.  Their ‘War Like Boys’ song is my favorite.

Santa Rampage 2010

§ December 13th, 2010 § Filed under austin § Tagged 6th street, austin, christmas, costumes, pub crawl, rampage, santa, santa rampage, santacon, texas § No Comments

Saturday night hundreds (and hundreds) of Santas (and reindeer, and elves, and snowmen, and fruitcakes…) descended on downtown Austin for the annual Santa Rampage.  It was, as you can see, awesome:

London vs Texas Rollergirls – A Fistful of Rollers

§ March 21st, 2010 § Filed under rollergirls § Tagged austin, bout, derby, girls, london, roller, rollerderby, rollergirl, skates, sports, texas § No Comments

On March 20th 2010 the Hustlers of the Texas Rollergirls traveled to London to play the London Brawling London Rollergirls team in the A Fistful of Rollers bout.  It was an intense match and incredibly close (tied at several points throughout most of the bout) with the Hustlers finally pulling ahead to win 84-63.

In addition to the bout, the Texas Rollergirls hosted a roller derby bootcamp where they trained 175 participants.  On their travel blog they added, “We loved their enthusiasm and watch out America–Europe has some amazing skaters and they’re going to be gunning for us all someday in the near future…”

Roller Derby is getting big in the UK and many other parts of the world and received a huge boost in attention from the release of the movie Whip It, based on Shauna Cross’ Derby Girl, starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, about Texas Roller Derby.

As a photographer originally from Austin Texas (where I’m proud to say I was a Texas Rollergirls fan!) that now lives in London (where I’m proud to say I’m a London Rollergirls fan!), I want to thank both teams for coordinating a matchup I could previously only dream of and congratulate both teams for a well played bout!