If you have looked at a painting of a cowboy in the last 20 years, chances are you were looking at Tommy. He's a professional cowboy model. His ranch outside Austin is filled with cowboy relics and a hand-built BBQ pit smoker. Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianMichelle Teague owns JM Drygoods, a hip store on South Lamar, full of Texan home decoration ephemera and clothing. Before running her store, she was a wardrobe stylist for big Hollywood productions like There Will Be Blood.Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianSam Douglas is a director and producer living in Austin. He is the founder of the aptly named Big Beard Films, which primarily focuses on documentary films.Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianThe University of Texas is one of the largest public universities in the US. Along with a massive student population, it has a massive population of football fans. The Longhorn Hellraisers are a group of guys who paint themselves for every game. Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianA sixth-generation Texan and a highly regarded designer, DJ Stout is a partner at Pentagram. He likes his beer cold and usually served at a bar called the Mean Eyed Cat.Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianBy day Moto Utsonomaya (left) and Paul Qui cook up delicacies at Uchi in west Austin, and by night they feed hipsters who, after drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for hours, pine for their pork belly cuisine served hot out of their fancy East Side King trailers. Paul won the most recent Top Chef competition on The Food Network. Photograph: jay B Sauceda/GuardianGinny's Little Longhorn Saloon is the type of place that has two rushes - middle of the weekday regulars and the evening crowd. If you're not wearing a watch, you probably wouldn't know what time it is - it's dark, air-conditioned and cozy for a reasonPhotograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianDale Watson makes regular appearances At Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon, but when he's not around you can find him and his friends Ray Price and Merle Haggard hanging on the shelf with the PA. Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianThere's no shortage of activities at the Deep Eddy Cabaret bar. Between the TV, two pool tables and old arcade game, you could never say you were bored hanging around here.Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/GuardianWith a name like Poodie's, you wouldn't expect that the owner of this roadhouse just outside Austin in Texas Hill Country was Willie Nelson's longtime tour manager. He recently passed away, but thankfully there's a massive wooden statue of him wearing mardi gras beads and holding a big ole brew.Photograph: Jay B Sauceda/Guardian
