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By Jann Alexander on May 12, 2014 • ( 6 Comments )

How To Keep Shooting—At 75 MPH

When you’re in a car, itching to shoot what’s flashing by, but there’s a window and 75 mph between you and your fast-moving subjects, you can still shoot the scenery with these pro tips.

By Jann Alexander on May 10, 2014 • ( 9 Comments )

Finding Zen in the Wild

When life becomes too frantic, we can take a lesson from nature’s humblest creatures to find stillness in the wild.

By Jann Alexander on May 8, 2014 • ( 7 Comments )

How Can We Turn Distractions Into Focus?

The impulse to distraction will always be with us. But to find focus, we can look within, where our own best experts live.

By Jann Alexander on May 7, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

There’s One Color That Makes Austin Outstanding in Spring

There’s one color that consistently belongs to Austin in every season, and in spring, even more so.

By Jann Alexander on May 6, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Art + Visibility

A single quote sums up what art does, and does not do, from a master of visibility: Paul Klee.

By Jann Alexander on May 5, 2014 • ( 5 Comments )

Pretty in Pink But Thorny as Thistle

The tenacious, thorny Texas thistle beguiles us with its huge pink pom-poms, so we’ll tolerate its presence.

By Jann Alexander on May 5, 2014 • ( 4 Comments )

An Austin Tradition Arrives Home

Cherishing our beloved Austin, Texas landmarks: How Vanishing Austin moves on and lands at its true home, here.

By Jann Alexander on May 3, 2014 • ( 9 Comments )

Cursive in the Crosswinds This Week

Sometimes themes emerge and merge; this week, letters and cursive and sketching had the upper hand. Pick and choose from the stories in the crosswinds.

By Jann Alexander on May 2, 2014 • ( 3 Comments )

What Remains

For inspiration, all you need is patience to see what remains.

By Jann Alexander on April 30, 2014 • ( 12 Comments )

Mexican Hats Are Back!

Each spring the Texas Hill Country wildflowers I await most fervently return. They’re here . . . !

By Jann Alexander on April 29, 2014 • ( 14 Comments )

Pearls of Wisdom, in Cursive

One thing leads to another on a hunt for a lobster roll in Maine—where you can find pearls before lobster and study the lost art of cursive, too.

By Jann Alexander on April 28, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

The True Meaning of the Art of Letters

Lettering Required: When you’re devoted to type, college and career requirements can enable lifelong passions, especially to the art of letters.

By Jann Alexander on April 27, 2014 • ( 5 Comments )

Use All The Colors

As a writer, words are your paint. Here’s a quote from Rhys Alexander to remind you to use all the colors.

By Jann Alexander on April 25, 2014 • ( 6 Comments )

Letters from the Past, in Upstate New York

When it’s golden time, the choice may come down to nature v. man. Give me a ghost sign, a shiny neon sign and an old diner, and I’ll visit the lake next time.

By Jann Alexander on April 22, 2014 • ( 13 Comments )

When in Doubt, I Hit the Road

When you’re in a creative drought, just hit the road. Literally or virtually, you can juice your creative flow and find new ways of looking at old things.

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Pairings are quite common in life: wine and cheese, football and beer, man and woman. Some pairings are less obvious. Pairings is a blog about pairing art with everything else at AustinDetails.me, where art meets tech with pictures and words.

—Jann Alexander

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Aim, frame, click. Read, write, repeat. Always looking at the details. Pondering where art meets tech. Find Photography, Writing, Art, Design and Words here about pairing art with what goes with it (everything).

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