unplugged

07/30/2015 by alaundre

sometimes, slightly bent i remember a time when I would sleep with headphones on, while in a daze, the bass dubs would rumble and sync, waking me up with a jumbled heartbeat…that was decades ago plugged into a stereo system (not the dinky portable devices I use nowadays). I dunno, I guess age is making me less “tuned in”….also full-sized headphones just drains batteries, so there’s that too…. currently listening to Parallels – Civilization EP Vitamin Dub – The Dub […]

Categories: listen, mix, random / life, seen • Tags: currently listening to, mixes, mixtape, music playlist, music videos, playlist, podcasts

nothing more than a bed to you

07/30/2015 by alaundre

Categories: random / life • Tags: dog, french bulldog, frenchie, lap dog, puppies, this dog's life

a monolith of copper in the middle of green

07/25/2015 by alaundre

The de Young  |  Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA From wikipedia: The current building was completed by architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Fong + Chan and opened on October 15, 2005. Structural, civil and geotechnical engineering was provided by Rutherford & Chekene; Arup provided mechanical and electrical engineering. Herzog & de Meuron won the competition in January 1999 beating out other short-listed architects Tadao Ando and Antoine Predock. The terrain and seismic activity in San Francisco posed […]

Categories: materialism, random / life, seen • Tags: architecture, cellphone photography, fine arts museum, modern architecture, museum, night at the museum, sightseeing, structures, tour, travelling

your puffy taco smells fishy

07/25/2015 by alaundre

TJ Oyster Bar  |  Chula Vista, CA haven’t tried everything on their menu (yet). smoked tuna taco on the far left, oyster tacos center and right. these are absolutely awesome. the smoked tuna doesn’t taste like fish, and the oyster doesn’t have that seafoody taste or feel to it ( it is cooked similar to the battered fish tacos you would get at rubios ) stingray taco on the left, shrimp diabla (spicy shrimp) on the right. they taste just […]

Categories: materialism, random / life • Tags: asians taking pictures of food, euphimisms, foodporn, innuendo, mexican food, pareidolia, seafood, tacos

the art of errors, pt. 11 : we band we jam

07/25/2015 by alaundre

wide format printer, paper jam + clogged print head drip, drip: also, crash magnets-ism  

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: accidental art, accidents, art of errors, crash test dummies, grunge art, textures

from here to somewhere

07/12/2015 by alaundre

After 14 hours of driving, I arrived nowhere near my destination.  Two hours earlier, I realized I was in the middle of rush hour traffic, of people trying to get home from work or school or somewhere, the key word somewhere, they were all headed somewhere specific, somewhere tangible, somewhere definite. A stream of movement towards a specific destination. On this road, we were all headed north, for most an exact north, an exact location. Except I’m heading north, north […]

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: cellphone photography, chasing sunsets, lost boys, musings, open road, photography, prose, sunsets, thoughts, travelling, vsco cam, writing

it smells like life

07/09/2015 by alaundre

I heard this kid tell his mom while I was eating at a taco shop : you got that right child, you got that right

Categories: random / life • Tags: conversation starters, deep thoughts, mexican food, misheard, pick up lines, random, small talk

abndnd : a beautiful decay

07/08/2015 by alaundre

A common photography theme that for some would naturally be of avoidance, while others purposely search for.  There is something fascinating about the textures and colors found in places of neglect — worn out and tossed aside, weathered and vandalized, still visited yet unmaintained. These are the remnants of the forgotten. This is what we leave behind. – me Not terribly original, but here is my contribution for your viewing pleasure: abndnd series 1     |     abndnd series 2 a […]

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: abandoned places, environments, habitats, photo albums, photography, photos, places, textures, vsco film

with the neon lights bright…

07/08/2015 by alaundre

Neon Sign Museum  |  Las Vegas Nevada Originally wanted to take a late afternoon tour so that I could use the sunset as a lighting effect, but the only available tour schedule I could fit into was the evening tour the day I was there.  I was unsure about how well the signs would look at night considering only a few of the old neon signs are actually operational, but the lighting setup at the tour was great. It was […]

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: digital photography, guided tour, las vegas, lighting, museum, neon lights, night photography, photography, signage, signs, tour, typographic art, typographic design, typography

where the streets have no name… but this one’s called fremont

07/08/2015 by alaundre

Fremont Street Experience : learn more about it here View larger images ( minus the experience )  : alaundre : gallery Extra and alternate images not included in the Gallery below :   I’ve passed by this place before but it was usually after midnight when the festivities have ended. I did remember seeing it featured in U2’s video, but other than that, was unaware what it actually looked like first hand what was i looking for again?

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: abstract, design, digital photography, filter, las vegas, lights, locations, neon lights, night photography, photography, travelling, typographic, typographic art