Photographer: Billy Kim
Q: Do you feel a sense of community in Barton Springs?
A: Let's just say I can recognize people by their butts underwater.
Patrick, Billy, and myself plan to present our project on Barton Springs in the form of a multi-media blog. Posts of pictures, text, video, and web links will be organized by topic, and all three of us will contribute content individually that will add to the overall understanding of the topic. The blog will show many different perspectives on the Austin icon. We will profile a few of the many groups that use Barton Springs, and we will investigate how these groups interact. We will expound upon the difference between the pay side of the pool and the free side of the pool. We will record individual visitors' impressions of the pool. In addition to these more traditional focus points, we will focus on the making of the project. As first-time ethnographers learning as we go along, we feel we can provide valuable insight into the nature of fieldwork, journalism, and social science work in general.
All of us will contribute in some way to each topic, and for most topics all three of us will provide our individual thoughts. Certain sections of the blog, such as the general introduction and conclusion, will be collaborative works. In addition, all of us will provide photography throughout the project.
Topics to be added:
The Free Side of Barton Springs
End of the Line
Brian
Chris, a.k.a. J-Blake
-Jonathan McJunkin
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