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Work

Working for a living—everybody’s got to do it. Some people find work they love, like Carol Ann Sayles and Larry Butler, who may not make much money farming Boggy Creek Farm in East Austin, but who can’t imagine doing anything else. Arnoldo Carrillo makes a living as a tattoo artist, which continually challenges him to create images that make him proud.

Some of the work isn’t fun or creative, but it has provided a way out of a more destructive life. Popcorn works in a restaurant dish room now, but it beats the destination his life dealing drugs was leading to. He’s trying to set an example for his nephews and nieces and he is proud of that.

Meet some of the musicians, mechanics, chefs, shop owners, and other East Austin residents at work.

American Dollars and Cokes
Arnoldo Carrillo: Tattooing from the Heart
Cemetery of Steel
Clarence
Community Policing
Cuevas Produce
Debt & Roomates
Fire Island
Geno’s Too Hot to Trot
Ginko Studios
Graphic Glass
The Green and White
The History of the Green and White Store
House of Elegance
King Tears Mortuary
Laying the Foundation
Letters for Las Manitas
Live Oak Rules!
Nubian Queen Lo-La
Nuevo Leon
Popcorn
Rosewood Restaurants
Sam’s Barbeque
Sam's BBQ (2003)
Screeners
A Taco for Me
Transitions
Urban Farm
The World’s Fastest Mexican

 


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Middle age couple. Both weal glasses and he holds a very young girl. on the mans' lap. They are both standing. Medium -range size of African American young man by a wall ful of grafitti. Sepia toned dual colored image. Baby girl holds bottle of milk with one hand and drinks, while holding to a baby-chair with her other hand.

Close shot of African-American young womanwith braided hair and in defying attitude. Colorful canvas on background. Sepia-toned dual colored image.