2013: The Year A Giant Wrecking Ball Ate Austin
It’s time for end-of-year portfolio assessments. First up: the giant wrecking ball that’s been tormenting Austin.
Unexpected Rewards and Opportunities at Year’s End
As the year ends, an unexpected prize is awarded to What’s Vanishing Next? and an opportunity to pay it forward is bestowed.
There’s an App for That: Achieve Your 2014 Tech Resolutions
Get your tech affairs together so you have more time for creativity in 2014. It’s nearly 2014. The year will begin with experts’ columns, advising us on New Year preparations, resolutions […]
The Gift I Treasure Most
There are lots of lovely gifts under the tree, but there’s one I treasure above all others.
Take the Thrill of the Creative Effort into the New Year
What most creatives know about happiness is this: If they can’t create, they can’t be happy. Here’s to the thrill of the creative effort and happiness for all in 2014: […]
What You’re Most Expecting Doesn’t Happen Until You’re Least Expecting It
I was so certain I’d have those cowgirl boots under the Christmas tree that year. After all, I’d wanted them really badly last year, I’d made that clear to Santa […]
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. But the juxtapositions are a photographer’s dream.
More Steps to Creativity—for Visual Learners
No matter your learning style, there’s more than one way to skin the creativity cat. Take a look at the wealth of tools offered in this idea-packed infographic (that visual […]
All Decked Out For the Holidays
Vanishing Austin—the ongoing photography series that tries to stay ahead of the wrecking ball—is looking pretty festive this month, at its first appearance at Austin’s annual anti-mall, shop small, holiday […]
Eternally Attracted to Color and Texture
— Found: An oft-painted warehouse wall, pitted, cracking, alive with color. Lost: The desire for perfection. “Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But […]
Why Do Photographers Love Grunge?
For photographers, the grungier, the rustier, the more lonely a subject is—the better. We crave texture, pattern, a story. A lonely place has a story, and photographers have many stories […]
Blessings for The Man in Black
A broken-down bus that long lived at Austin’s famous honky-tonk shows some respect for the Man in Black. The missing 1948 Flxible Clipper bus that once lent its retro funk to Austin’s […]
Finding Inspiration With An Artist’s Poem
Ain’t no sunshine. It’s a dreary, dull, drab, gray day. A day that demands a wing and a prayer to find inspiration. A day for an Artist’s Poem, one I […]
The Eyes Have It
Today’s Treat: Supernaturally blue eyes, no Photoshop applied. Just a trick of the lens(es) worn by the costumed subject. So the eyes have it. Related articles DAILY PROMPT: Trick or […]
The Pattern of Change Is Change
It takes a whole lotta cranes to hoist up a new Marriott in downtown Austin, where change is changing faster than you can say change. The upcoming architecture at 2nd […]
Jann Alexander :: Pairings 