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Jann Alexander
Jan 22, 20142 min read
How Do You Move 95+ Austin Landmarks in One Day?
When you’re faced with moving more than 95 Austin Landmarks (in the form of hundreds of framed and/or matted prints and posters, ranging...
Jann Alexander
Dec 31, 20133 min read
2013: The Year A Giant Wrecking Ball Ate Austin
Endangered Species of Austin poster, $25 It’s time for end-of-year portfolio assessments. The giant wrecking ball that’s tormented...
Jann Alexander
Dec 11, 20131 min read
Juxtapositions Tell the Story of Our Town
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...
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
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 27, 20131 min read
Looking for a Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon by Jann Alexander © 2013 “Horizon. The space or line where the sky meets the earth.” There’s a place along Maine’s Casco...
Jann Alexander
Oct 22, 20131 min read
A Restorative Walk in the Woods
Restorative, Arkansas Woods by Jann Alexander © 2013 “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. “ — JOHN MUIR ,...
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 14, 20131 min read
Where the Elite Eat in Waco
Where the Elite Eat by Jann Alexander © 2103 What could be tastier on Mondays than 2 for 1 Burgers at The Elite Cafe in Waco, Texas?...
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 11, 20134 min read
What’s the Big Deal About Creativity?
© 2013 Jann Alexander The business world seems determined to improve its creativity. If you don’t believe it, visit Inc.com to search...
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
Sep 5, 20131 min read
Raise a Glass to Pressgram: An App That Plays Nicely With Cava and Creative Control
Cava! by Jann Alexander © 2013 Thanks to a new iPhone app by John Saddington called Pressgram , creatives are able to publish their own...
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...
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