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Photo: Russell Freeland's Absolute Zero Project

By RUSSELL FREELAND | October 7, 2009


On one of his first days in Austin, Freeland traded a sketch for a Lone Star (according to Freeland, Texans don’t drink anything else)	Leia and Albert, a couple who the abstract artist says saved his life when they bought this painting from him on his third day in Austin. The piece was done on some dry wall found at a construction site.

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Three years ago, Russell Freeland had what most would consider a settled life. Just two years later, though, Freeland was hungry, exhausted, and homeless, trying to survive in Austin, Texas.
Rogue wave
These days, younger, wiser bands simply don't bat their eyelashes at the majors like they used to.
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