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

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

re-fresh

07/08/2015 by alaundre

So we here we have new flooring, open concept floorplan, new paint in your neighborhood……this blog reno flip it or flop it, list it property mothers fixer upper…. not that drastic of a change from the previous incarnation, just with a few better features. I tried to find a theme where I did not have to worry too much about older posts looking out of whack ( really old posts are slightly off ) and also one where there isn’t […]

Categories: random / life • Tags: blog, blogging, journal, wordpress

give you one to grow on

04/10/2015 by alaundre

 calligraphy mural by usugrow      |      upper playground gallery october 2014   the two above are my favorites from the show…mainly because these were not in his most recent book     other book by usugrow on my shelf ° my collection of shirts ° something to grow on

Categories: random / life, seen • Tags: art, art books, artist, books, calligraphy, design, inspiration, pen and ink, typographic, typographic art, typography

food for thought…… scratch that …. food for hungry thoughts

04/10/2015 by alaundre

Burger . ––––– . variations of ahi poke must be the new thing since it’s popping up at various restaurants . ––––– . Russian Food the salad sampler looks nothing like salads. the chees pie, khachapuri (upper left above) is the bomb. nicely downed with pear soda. . ––––– .   while everybody was served with their burgers neatly stacked and ready to eat, I was given the some assembly required kit . ––––– . Decided to do a variation […]

Categories: materialism, random / life • Tags: asians taking pictures of food, foodie, foodporn, random