state of listening

04/18/2014 by alaundre

Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form – from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the […]

Categories: listen, random / life, seen • Tags: documentary, feeling old, music, musings, nostalgia, rant, sentimental

my artwork is getting bootlegged on ebay

09/26/2012 by alaundre

– in the form of a button, worth $1.00 (10 available). not that its a big seller or anything, but still… First off, I’m not really sure what I should be mad about. Should I be mad that they took an old illustration of mine from this blog (click here to see the original post) and just added a Hello Kitty ribbon on it…or the fact that the whole thing makes no sense without the text? With the text/caption/slogan on […]

Categories: art | design, create, materialism, random / life • Tags: art, bootleg, context, copy, copycat, design, e-commerce, graphic design, hello kitty, iconography, icons, illustration, kawaii, peeves, piracy, plagiarism, rant

i had a moment…

09/17/2012 by alaundre

Categories: random / life • Tags: kvetch, moods, musings, prose, quotations, rant, thoughts

I Am A Creep

09/08/2012 by alaundre

I Am A Creep, and this is my dirty epic. Musings on information overload, inappropriate online behavior and disrespect of personal space. A Dirty Internet Creep… whether well-intentioned, wrong intentioned or no intent at all…too curious for one’s sake? Overzealous interest? Obsessed, bored, infatuated, disillusioned, selfishly motivated? All of the above? Here I lay a tale to consider, to think about. Not to make excuses or reasons for the behavior, but just a mirror or window for one to see. […]

Categories: random / life • Tags: behavior, commentary, creep, essay, internet, internet creep, kvetch, musings, online search, prose, psychology, rant, social experiment, social media, writing

chiggidy check yo self

08/03/2012 by alaundre

– Sorry, mini rant:

Categories: random / life • Tags: annoyances, gripes, kvetch, observation, pet peeves, rant