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Originally posted by txtiger
i've seen the real world crew around downtown a lot...walking on the streets, getting lost, etc. it's pretty hard to miss the whole menagerie of people, cameras, microphones, etc.
and if you're in austin and wanna run into them, a sure bet is spill on 6th...they've been regulars there since filming began...
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Fun article about where they have been spotted
The semistealth MTV production will flee Austin in early May, with the 16th edition of "Real World" scheduled to debut in June (new episodes air Tuesday nights). The young cast members might not have made a ripple in the majority of Austinites' lives, but they've made a big impression on night-owl hipsters, Drag dwellers and others.
A hotbed for gossip and actual info is realworldaustin.com, which gets 60,000 to 80,000 page views per day — more than 120,000 per day when the site launched Dec. 24, the day MTV announced it was coming to Austin. About 500 people are registered.
There has been Internet chatter about fights in bars, with regulars miffed that out-of-towners take up valuable space with their cameras and lights. And some Austin patrons don't like MTV folks asking them to sign waivers that could make them look like fools when the show airs.
Online testimonials are about evenly divided in their assessment of the cast. They're jerks, loud-mouthed drunks who never explore Austin beyond the bars on Sixth Street. They're full of themselves and never talk to anyone except each other. Or they're cool kids who have become victims of MTV's secrecy and the "Real World" bubble. They're sweet and sexy, full of personality.
Weekly sightings at UT's Department of Radio-Television-Film lend credence to the rumor that they are making a 15-minute documentary about a band at South by Southwest.