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Jann Alexander
Dec 5, 20132 min read
All Decked Out For the Holidays
All Tricked Out For The Holidays Vanishing Austin —the ongoing photography series that tries to stay ahead of the wrecking ball—is...
Jann Alexander
Nov 21, 20131 min read
Eternally Attracted to Color and Texture
Eternally Attracted to Color and Texture by Jann Alexander © 2013 — Found: An oft-painted warehouse wall, pitted, cracking, alive with...
Jann Alexander
Nov 21, 20131 min read
Why Do Photographers Love Grunge?
Grunge on Avenue G by Jann Alexander © 2013 For photographers, the grungier, the rustier, the more lonely a subject is—the better. We...
Jann Alexander
Nov 5, 20132 min read
Blessings for The Man in Black
Blessings at the Spoke by Jann Alexander © 2013 A broken-down bus that long lived at Austin’s famous honky-tonk shows some respect for...
Jann Alexander
Oct 28, 20132 min read
The Pattern of Change Is Change
The Pattern of Change by Jann Alexander © 2013 It takes a whole lotta cranes to hoist up a new Marriott in downtown Austin, where...
Jann Alexander
Oct 16, 20132 min read
Close Encounters of the Austin Kind
First Encounter: Greetings from Austin, 2004 by Jann Alexander [Mural: Todd Sanders © Roadhouse Relics] It was still spring in Austin,...
Jann Alexander
Oct 11, 20132 min read
A Retro Transition From Movies to Books into History
From Movies to Books by Jann Alexander © 2013 Americana Ad, Austin History Center When Austin’s Americana Theatre held its gala opening...
Jann Alexander
Oct 3, 20133 min read
Reflections on Making a Mark
Lightscapes / On the Lake, Austin by Jann Alexander © 2013 . . . There’s a complex explanation in physics for reflection....
Jann Alexander
Sep 18, 20132 min read
Singing the Moody Blues for Antone’s
Moody Blues by Jann Alexander © 2013 Antone’s, the club whose name is perhaps most synonymous with The Live Music Capital of the World...
Jann Alexander
Sep 17, 20133 min read
How Does Art Connect Us?
ART CONNECTS ME to the whole wide world. It’s in the details of everything I see, be it a painting in a gallery window, a pair of...
Jann Alexander
Sep 13, 20131 min read
Overcome by Tall Towers and Big Cranes
Tiny Bar, Big Crane by Jann Alexander © 2010 We’d honestly like to see more of the Tiniest Bar in Texas. It’s just that these days,...
Jann Alexander
Sep 11, 20132 min read
Walk Back to Weird at Wiggy’s
Walk or Don’t Walk, it’s up to you at Wiggy’s I have long been fascinated by juxtapositions. In fact I’ve tried to build my entire...
Jann Alexander
Sep 5, 20132 min read
Weird Is A Typical Austin Day
On the Lake by Jann Alexander © 2013 Competition by Jann Alexander © 2013 A woman you meet at a gallery opening has loved a real...
Jann Alexander
Aug 30, 20131 min read
Who Lives in Austin to Work?
“People don’t live in Austin to work, they work to live there.” — Robert Rodriguez What Beer Does by Jann Alexander © 2013 In the vein...
Jann Alexander
Aug 22, 20134 min read
Can’t Keep Austin Weird? Look Around: It’s Everywhere
Stalking the Innocent Putt Putters by Jann Alexander © 2103 Yes, there’s reason to worry that we can’t Keep Austin Weird. But if you...
Jann Alexander
Aug 16, 20132 min read
Turned On and Powerful Once Again
Austin Power : “You can’t turn me on.” Austin Powers : “Au contraire baby, you can’t resist me.” Austin Power by Jann Alexander © 2013...
Jann Alexander
Aug 16, 20131 min read
A Summer Invitation
Lightscapes / Blue Pool by Jann Alexander © 2013 — There is nothing as inviting as a languid, limpid pool of cool blue water on a hot...
Jann Alexander
Aug 9, 20131 min read
Austin: Truly in Hues of Blue
True Blues by Jann Alexander © 2103 Blue is the color of summer in Austin. Blue skies. Blue pools. Blue lakes. Blue neon. Blue...
Jann Alexander
Aug 6, 20131 min read
How Does Austin Beat the Heat?
Frog Legs and Towers by Jann Alexander © 2013 Sunny and 102°?! How to Beat the Heat? How else—with frog legs, fried pies and air...
Jann Alexander
Aug 2, 20132 min read
You Mean Austin Keeps on Vanishing?
Yes, it does. As noted in What’s Vanished Since 2004 , some of Austin’s best treasures have gone missing since I began my Vanishing...
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