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Choices by Jann Alexander © 2014 With apologies to Robert Frost: Two canals diverged in a field, and I – I focused on the most alluring...

It’s all about you. Who you are is what you make, and what you make of it. — Jann Alexander on Influences .  .  .  .  . HERE’S WHERE I...

Ideas by Jann Alexander ©2014.jpg Brenda Ueland had a lot to say about creativity ; in fact, she herself was an inexhaustible fountain...

Pistachio Dream by Jann Alexander ©2013 If you dream in green and ice cream, you may want to dive inside a pistachio-colored booth at...

Overtowering Sandy’s by Jann Alexander © 2013 In Austin, Texas, we take our local landmarks seriously , and our city ordinances decree...

Those Halcyon Days by Jann Alexander © 2014 Some of Austin’s towers are getting pretty overtowering, but locally-owned Halcyon is...

Three Boys and a Polaroid  first appeared as the post, When a Polaroid Was Instant Gratification , at Pairings :: Art + What Goes With It...

So Long, 2013 by Jann Alexander © 2013 As the year ends, an unexpected prize is awarded to What’s Vanishing Next? and an opportunity...

What a city of contradictions is Austin. Old butts up against the new, old is lamented when exchanged for new. The town’s a shiny magnet...

Grunge on Avenue G by Jann Alexander © 2013 For photographers, the grungier, the rustier, the more lonely a subject is—the better. We...

The Pattern of Change by Jann Alexander © 2013 It takes a whole lotta cranes to hoist up a new Marriott in downtown Austin, where...

Moody Blues by Jann Alexander © 2013 Antone’s, the club whose name  is perhaps most synonymous with The Live Music Capital of the World...

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,...

On the Lake by Jann Alexander © 2013 Competition by Jann Alexander © 2013 A woman you meet at a gallery opening has loved a real...

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...

See more photographs and paintings from Mission Mexico  HERE Shockingly, when I was 10, I wanted to be a nun. Perhaps that wasn’t so...

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The Pattern of Change by Jann Alexander © 2013 It takes a whole lotta cranes  to hoist up a new Marriott in downtown Austin, where...

The Pattern of Change by Jann Alexander © 2103 Take it from Wikipedia : “Façadism  (or  Façadomy [1] ) is the practice of demolishing...

Mean Cat Meets Condo by Jann Alexander © 2010 The question that emerged from the  Vanishing Austin interview on KOOP 91.7 FM today was,...