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What’s Not to Like About Texas?

Nov 5, 20141 min read

What’s Not to Like About Texas?

Texas Is So 21st Century Eat the Natural Meat by Jann Alexander © 2014 Texas Has Alternatives to Wally’s World Venison World, Not...

Here’s a Secret About Photographs

Oct 31, 20141 min read

Here’s a Secret About Photographs

Secrets by Jann Alexander ©2014 “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” –Diane Arbus Though...

So Many Signs, So Little Time

Oct 30, 20142 min read

So Many Signs, So Little Time

October has been a month of signs at Pairings , exploring the themes of art + meanings within our everyday surroundings. The inspiration...

So Simple, So Sweet, It Needs No Words

Oct 29, 20141 min read

So Simple, So Sweet, It Needs No Words

So Simple, So Sweet by Jann Alexander ©2014 And that’s a good thing, because it’s Wordless Wednesday. I wish I could say more. ♣ Get...

How to Shoot a Texas-Size Panorama

Oct 28, 20143 min read

How to Shoot a Texas-Size Panorama

Top to Bottom in the Dome ©2014 Jann Alexander There are architectural interiors so impressive that they demand photographs—even if the...

Miles Upon Miles of Motel Doors

Oct 25, 20141 min read

Miles Upon Miles of Motel Doors

Miles of Motel Doors, 1980 by Jann Alexander © 2014 In 1980, as we made our way across the west in a Honda hatchback, photographing the...

Cast Shadows Never Let Me Down

Oct 24, 20141 min read

Cast Shadows Never Let Me Down

Cast Shadows as Cover Art by Jann Alexander ©2014 Cast shadows beguile me, and none are as ubiquitous around the planet as those made...

A Collection of Distortions

Oct 23, 20141 min read

A Collection of Distortions

Baxter Park Painting by Jann Alexander ©2014 “It’s good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it’s definitely more fun to play...

A Collection of Reflections

Oct 22, 20141 min read

A Collection of Reflections

Lovely Lilies by Jann Alexander © 2014 “Art is not just about what’s great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It’s a mirror we hold...

Seeing Black and White In Color

Oct 20, 20142 min read

Seeing Black and White In Color

Separation Anxiety, Mono by Jann Alexander ©2014 Separation Anxiety by Jann Alexander ©2014 I see in color. I shoot in color. I dream...

Take This Simple Refraction Test

Oct 17, 20141 min read

Take This Simple Refraction Test

Refracted City by Jann Alexander ©2014 Sit at a comfortable distance from your iDevice or monitor, and cover one eye while gazing...

Where Dreams Await

Oct 15, 20142 min read

Where Dreams Await

Where Dreams Become Memories by Jann Alexander ©2014 The mocha of my dreams had begun life less than an hour earlier. It was a typical...

Landmarks We Have Loved and Lost

Oct 10, 20141 min read

Landmarks We Have Loved and Lost

Heartbroken Music by Jann Alexander ©2013 We’ve lost many of our cherished Austin, Texas landmarks, but they remain forever...

We Are The Champions!

Oct 8, 20141 min read

We Are The Champions!

Since 1957: How Continental by Jann Alexander ©2010 Yes, there are beloved Austin, Texas landmarks in the Vanishing Austin photography...

Unintended Redundancies

Oct 7, 20141 min read

Unintended Redundancies

Do you believe in signs? Sometimes they really speak to me. Other times, they’re . . . well, they may have a modicum of truth, but they...

Signs of Changing Times

Oct 6, 20141 min read

Signs of Changing Times

Closed or open, since 1862. Come on in. Wear your shirt. Because we’ve got our rules. Don’t like our rules? Eat somewheres else. Ashes...

You’ll Always Have Choices

Oct 5, 20141 min read

You’ll Always Have Choices

No Parking by Jann Alexander © 2011 Scuttled by Jann Alexander © 2011 There’s Parking Signs, and then there’s No Parking Signs. These...

Does Beer Make Others More Interesting?

Oct 4, 20141 min read

Does Beer Make Others More Interesting?

Drink Miller by Jann Alexander ©2014 Pop Beer Quiz! Pop a beer to answer a few questions about it on this holiest of beer-drinking days....

All the Signs Pointed Me in One Direction

Oct 3, 20142 min read

All the Signs Pointed Me in One Direction

Willie Nelson Live, 2004 by Jann Alexander ©2014 It was May 2004 and there were so many signs in Austin, Texas, I almost ran out of...

When the Nighttime Is the Right Time

Sep 29, 20141 min read

When the Nighttime Is the Right Time

Neon Crossroads, 1980 by Jann Alexander © 2014 In 1980 at a mostly unmemorable crossroads, nighttime was coming on, and I was looking...

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