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Jann Alexander
Feb 28, 20141 min read
Let It Flow
Weekend inspiration from Jann Alexander and a handy little app called Notegraphy . #art #creativity #design #inspiration
Jann Alexander
Feb 25, 20145 min read
#Creativity: It’s a Wrap | Creative Blocks
Find your way through life’s creative blocks. © Jann Alexander We’re creative. But you’re stuck. (Just like I was last week.) So I’ve...
Jann Alexander
Feb 22, 20141 min read
Good Things Always Come in Threes
What could be better than a Margarita Threesome? © Jann Alexander 2012 Today is National Margarita Day, and if good things always come...
Jann Alexander
Feb 21, 20142 min read
7 Steps to Everyday Creativity
Coffee Gets Creative in Mocha Madness by Jann Alexander © 2011 “We can enhance our creative output by looking at everyday acts as...
Jann Alexander
Feb 18, 20141 min read
The Inescapable Frost Tower
Frost Sunset by Jann Alexander © 2014 Ever notice how the Frost Bank Tower follows you all around downtown Austin and appears magically...
Jann Alexander
Feb 17, 20142 min read
#Creativity: It’s a Wrap | On Balance
Finding balance in the creative practice, circa 1926 Among the most thought-provoking pieces I discovered for the new feature I’m...
Jann Alexander
Feb 14, 20145 min read
How I Became An Unintentional Publisher
Publishing is the easy part. Managing it all is quite another. My career in publishing was unintentional, and its potential for success ...
Jann Alexander
Feb 11, 20141 min read
Trapped By An Attraction To Light
Setting a Trap by Jann Alexander © 2012 “I look at light: how it plays, bounces, delineates, colors, dances and defines by its abundance...
Jann Alexander
Feb 9, 20142 min read
Here’s to Halcyon Days Ahead for Legal Vices
Those Halcyon Days by Jann Alexander © 2014 Some of Austin’s towers are getting pretty overtowering, but locally-owned Halcyon is...
Jann Alexander
Feb 6, 20143 min read
How to Jumpstart Your Creative Mojo
Get your creative mojo off the back burner . . . When you’re just coming down from a huge burst of your creative output, you don’t...
Jann Alexander
Feb 4, 20141 min read
Wise Words From a Photo God About Another God
Wise Words From a Photo God About Another God. Photofocus (old site) Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in...
Jann Alexander
Feb 2, 20141 min read
Snowed Under in Seco
Snowed Under in Seco by Jann Alexander © 2014 Beneath a blanket of snow in Arroyo Seco , there must be a story to go with a small and...
Jann Alexander
Jan 30, 20141 min read
Finding Wisdom Along the Mayan Path
Along the Mayan Path by Jann Alexander ©2014 “I came into this world with nothing, my experiences are only mine, and I will leave this...
Jann Alexander
Jan 29, 20142 min read
Making Texans Proud Since 1964
Texas Proud Since 1964 by Jann Alexander © 2013 Broken Spoken Here. The Broken Spoke offers dining, dancing and development. Owner...
Jann Alexander
Jan 28, 20143 min read
When a Polaroid Was Instant Gratification
Three Boys and a Polaroid first appeared as the post, When a Polaroid Was Instant Gratification , at Pairings :: Art + What Goes With It...
Jann Alexander
Jan 27, 20141 min read
How Can We Overcome Barriers to Creativity?
We think of barriers quite literally, as physical obstacles in our paths. But barriers can be much more debilitating to our creativity...
Jann Alexander
Jan 26, 20144 min read
Unexpected Pairings
Light meets design makes shadow creates pattern bathes piano attracts musician rides bike brings color makes music becomes art =...
Jann Alexander
Jan 25, 20141 min read
Windows and Doors Have Stories to Tell . . .
How can you pass by an intriguing window or door by without making note, or making a picture? There’s a story to be told behind them . ....
Jann Alexander
Jan 24, 20141 min read
Austin Is a Town of Continual Juxtaposition
Overtowering Sandy’s by Jann Alexander © 2013 There’s no shortage of colorful contrast in Austin , and there hasn’t been in a long long...
Jann Alexander
Jan 22, 20141 min read
Mirrored By Nature
On the Lake by Jann Alexander © 2013 What man has made of steel and concrete becomes beauty when mirrored by nature; and the mind can...
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