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

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

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