Think of the Austin skyline as a canvas. Despite all those cranes and construction, it doesn鈥檛 change very much on a day-to-day basis.
鈥檚 very familiar with the skyline鈥檚 appearance. He filmed and produced two time-lapse videos documenting the city: of the city at night, and through downtown, sunrise through sunset.
In his latest time-lapse video, 鈥淪tart Fresh: Never Give Up,鈥� he turns to a much more dynamic medium: at Castle Hill.
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Slated for a since-stalled development project, the lot鈥檚 concrete walls were entrusted to a slate of Austin graffiti artists. (Here鈥檚 .)
Shot this fall in-between his doctoral engineering classes at the University of Texas, Takano says the artists he met 鈥渨ere welcoming enough to allow me into their world to spend time shooting footage of them doing what they do best.鈥� You can read Takano鈥檚 remarks 鈥� and learn more about the eight artists in the video 鈥� .
It鈥檚 another impressive clip from someone for whom film is still a hobby. 鈥淭here were so many days this semester where the conditions were perfect for a certain kind of shot, and I had a meeting to attend or a class to teach,鈥� he tells KUT News. 鈥淚'm excited to have the flexibility in my schedule to do more shooting over the winter break, for sure.鈥�
