Brighten Up Your Instagram Feed With These Colorful Locations
Finding Instagram-worthy spots around Austin, Texas is easy-peasy. However, moving through the city quickly, is not as simple. Between the rows of music venues and painted buildings, Austin’s scenic neighborhoods are perfect for snapping and sharing a photo. Which means that you’ll be stopping every few minutes to take a pic. So, if you like to plan your trips around where to take the best selfies, here’s some charm-filled places that will add a little color to your next Instagram post.
Welcome To Austin
This bold sign can be found on the side of Parlor and Yard at 601 West 6th Street. The bright blue Howdy! Austin mural is a great place to let your friends know that you’ve arrived to “The Live Music Capital of the World”.
United Way’s Days of Caring
As part of the United Way’s Days of Caring, Creative Suitcase painted a mural for the United Way for Greater Austin Building at 2000 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Read more at Creative Suitcase to hear how their Senior Designer John came up with the idea.
Jeremiah The Innocent Bullfrog
In 1993, Daniel Johnston painted the image of Jeremiah The Innocent from his 1983 album Hi, How Are You on the side of the (now closed) Sound Exchange music store. As a singer-songwriter, musician, and visual artist, his image gained fame during the 90’s alt-rock movement. During the press tour for Nirvana’s Nevermind, Kurt Cobain often wore a shirt with the infamous bullfrog and helped it to become nationally recognized.
Johnston has lived most of his life with schizophrenia and manic depression, and has been in and out of psychiatric institutions. His life’s story was featured in the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
Grab a Cup of Jo’s Coffee
Originally painted in 2010 by Austin musician Amy Cook as an expression of love to Jo’s Hot Coffee shop majority owner Liz Lambert, this mural quickly became a viral hit among locals. Since then, people have come from all over the world to grab their chance at a photo in front of the perfectly hued sage green wall. Unfortunately, the property was vandalized in 2011, but it was quickly restored it to all its glory for some continued good-hearted fun.
Life Is Art
Left open for spray-paint artists to set their inhibitions free, the ever-changing graffiti art makes this colorful park a must-see. Take a sharable pic with your camera phone or schedule a professional photo shoot. Either way, it’s the perfect backdrop for capturing a moment to remember.
Abstract Expressionist
You can find this Instagram-worthy pop art mural right behind the delicious Mykonos Waffles in Downtown Austin. While you snap a pic, take some time to try Mykonos’ Fruit Waffle Sandwich or the marinated Chicken and Waffles Sandwich.
Express Your Un-Dying Love
Share the art and culture of Mexico and celebrate the Day of The Dead. Painted on the side of the Mexic-Arte Museum, the replica of Federico Archuleta’s stunning mural is a great place to express your un-dying love.
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
I don’t know a lot about this East Austin mural but we had to take a quick pick of this adorably painted building before we flew back home to Nevada. If you have any information that we can add, please add it in the comments below.
