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As a self-defined seeker of the wacky , I’ve cultivated a number sources I follow online to get my Weekly Wacky Fix. These are some of...

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.” —SAUL BASS, graphic design icon ♣ SAUL BASS: “I want everything we do to be...

Austin Power : “You can’t turn me on.” Austin Powers : “Au contraire baby, you can’t resist me.” Austin Power by Jann Alexander © 2013...

Lightscapes / Blue Pool by Jann Alexander © 2013 — There is nothing as inviting as a languid, limpid pool of cool blue water on a hot...

Health Camp Super Burgers Since 1949 by Jann Alexander © 2013 Call it Road Kill, because the large milkshakes at Health Camp really...

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...

Down East Wine by Jann Alexander © 2013 Wine seems to be a favorite of many artists and photographers (whether using it for subject...

Where are you heading? by Jann Alexander © 2013 “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.” —Yogi Berra Being...

Down East Wine by Jann Alexander © 2013 Wine seems to be a favorite of many artists and photographers (whether using it for subject...

Wine and art make an incomparable pairing . That must be why it’s always served at art gallery openings. In fact, isn’t that why there’s...

I’ve traveled far from home, and farther back in time than I’ve ever traveled in miles covered. I’ve seen the Dust Bowl in the Texas...

Road trips have an appeal that goes way back in time, and roadside oddities abound for time travelers willing to take a fork in the road.

Three Boys and a Polaroid by Jann Alexander © 2013 In an Instagram world when a quickie effect can turn a contemporary image vintage...

Happy July Fourth, Maine by Jann Alexander © 2013 Artists have painted flags for as long as artists have painted, from Claude Monet to...

Ride the Zephyr by Jann Alexander © 2013 . . . if only I could I encountered a train switching yard on a bike tour of South Dakota’s...

“ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene,...

So Long, SoCo Trailers by Jann Alexander © 2013 Sign of the Thaimes? Neon green picnic tables and a fallen Coat & Thai sign are all...

Mail thinks this is junk. Mail is right. Welcome to 2012. The day that experts’ columns appear  with abandon, advising us on New Year...

We are continually amazed (yet entertained) by Dumb Things Artists Do To Try to Get Into Galleries . Dumb, because they’ve given no...

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