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

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

shoot and book it

03/27/2015 by alaundre

If a picture is worth a thousand words, What would a book of random pictures be? Stream of Consciousness writing or incoherent ramblings? | #undecided just testing out various photobook offerings (with some of the same images) to check out print quality, binding etc. before deciding on a specific theme or concept. Or maybe just stll keep it random, who knows…     Still trying to amass photos for this idea below. Used jpgs directly from my camera without any post […]

Categories: art | design, create, materialism, random / life, seen • Tags: albums, cellphone photography, digital photography, lomography, photo albums, photobook, photography, point and shoot

shooting from the hip…after taking your phone out of your pocket

02/25/2015 by alaundre

@ alaundre.vsco.co  random filtered cellphone photography + |

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: cellphone photography, lomography, photography, pictures, point and shoot, still life

a space of warmth amongst your concrete walls

11/17/2014 by alaundre

  Salk Institute      |      Louis Kahn .

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: architecture, buildings, cellphone photography, institutions, modern architecture, modernism, photography, shapes and forms, spaces, structures, sunsets, vsco cam

on the lonely road to nowheres

11/04/2014 by alaundre

Traveling down this road Watching the signs as I go I think I’ll follow the sun Isn’t everyone just Traveling down their own road Watching the signs as they go I think I’ll follow my heart It’s a very good place to start .     .

Categories: random / life, seen • Tags: big sur, cellphone photography, destinations, driving, highway 1, journeys, pacific highway, road trip, scenic drive, travelling

once more into the (belly) fold

09/04/2014 by alaundre

picnic . brunch at a german deli . rollin . lobster in my sandwich . and other things from this summer   clearly not trying being a beach body this past summer. .

Categories: materialism, random / life • Tags: asians taking pictures of food, cellphone photography, food, foodie, foodporn, photography, smorgasbord, the no diet diet

predefined filtering

07/08/2014 by alaundre

Is it more about the shot, or are you just gonna filter the hell out of that photo eat or take a shot first? what is this life coming to… .

Categories: art | design, create, materialism, random / life • Tags: cellphone photography, digital photography, first world problems, french bulldog, photography, puppies, ramen

been eating instead of blogging

07/08/2014 by alaundre

I didn’t actually eat that Churros cereal, but I brought it to work and chicks seem to dig it.

Categories: art | design, create, materialism, random / life • Tags: asians taking pictures of food, cellphone photography, food, food coma, foodporn

random memories : the streets are littered with people who can’t think straight

01/28/2014 by alaundre

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: cellphone photography, diary, fragments, memories, musings, photography, recollections, street photography, thoughts, typographic art, typographic design