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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had one of my photos accepted by a small local gallery (Black Box) for Exhibition. (I don't particularly like how pursuing these things has dredged up a lot of old insecurity that has me wanting to sandbag or discredit this and other recent mild successes) blackboxgallery.com/Black%20and%...

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zine makers and self-publishers: If you still haven't seen it I made this spreadsheet everyone can use to share their results and experiences at fairs and zine fests so other publishers can manage expectations and learn from you. Add your stats and reflections! www.tinyurl.com/artbookfairsales

tinyurl.com

Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sudden memory of being mugged for my Sidekick in the downtown Rochester, NY library, the cop taking an hour to show up, scolding me for not fighting back, indignant when I said it wasn't worth being shot over, and his slow realization that the book theft detection machines were not metal detectors.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"[vague sense of a gratitude to be alive tinged with ennui about the weight of all the years behind you]"

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sometimes getting a health care institution to notice you is very difficult and I, for one, think that stinks.

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Diskette Press @ A2CAF @diskettepress.com · 28/09/2026

Hey Diskette Fans! This is your first notice that we're putting together a fundraiser anthology for a new Riso. Sign up here for launch info. More details to come in the coming weeks, this is gonna be a good one. diskettepress.com/pages/belove...

diskettepress.com

Beloved! A Riso Fundraiser Anthology

Help Diskette Press get a new Risograph by picking up a new anthology featuring work by artists you know and love.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨🚨 New Project Alert! Don't let the glossy photos or full size fool you, Girl Singer is still a zine. Issue One has five interviews with women from Portland's queer & trans music scene. I'll be seeding it a couple of place around town and have copies for sale at @pdxzines.bsky.social on 10/18 🚨🚨

Image of a woman's hand holding a magazine entitle Girl Singer: Portland, OR; Volume. The cover features a full bleed photo of a microphone waiting for a sing to approach, with a mustached performer in the blurry background.

Image of a copy of Girl Singer open to a page with a full size photo of a woman singing into a microphone in front of her music rig.

Image of a page from Girl Singer featuring a woman in front of Tibetan prayer flags playing the bass and in deep concentration

Image of a page from Girl Singer featuring a half size photo of a women in deep reverie playing the electric guitar while singing into a microphone.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ever have a morning where a bunch of nerves are randomly firing causing pinching sensations in some tender flesh and you selfishly decide to walk out on your appointment to have a needle slid into some other tender flash and deliver an electric shock a few hundred times over an hour?

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SE 34th and Belmont, Autumn 2007; Portland, OR. Before Sorenson sold Stumptown to private equity (coffee was $1) and the Aalto Lounge was on its first owner; still living its best/worst “please don’t do cocaine in the bathroom” life

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tfw the transsexuals outnumber the staff at the community darkroom.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Fast and the Furious/A.I. Artificial Intelligence double feature in the late summer of 2001. The last months of the '90s were a time.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I presume this goes on in other cities, but most Halloweens Portland music scene kids will get “cover bands” together — a few years back some women did Nirvana and it made me so fucking happy. <eom>

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Learning about modern gallery business models and having feelings.

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Shape Hunter E @erinholographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Would anyone mind sharing with me what Harman Switch Azure and Lomo Purple look like as developed negatives? Doing some research for a project and I haven’t been able to find many examples. Thanks! #filmphotography

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have I really let the yard get that overgrown this summer?

Image of what appears to be a bush taking over a backyard through a narrow window

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No way to automatically update the quotes to be curly, eh BookWright? And I'll lose all other formatting if copy/paste the text to a different editors to do that huh? Not sure we're seeing each other again dude.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

tfw you’ve been in a relationship for years and you’re so blown away by some fleeting kind action of another towards you that you realize how toxic that relationship always was (flatbed scanner)

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

edit button when 🤦‍♀️

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Squeezing in last more interview before production and of course she goes on for 8000 words. (three times the length of my longest interview so far)

A screenshot indicating a document as 42,506 characters, 8,214 words, and 133 lines.

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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 18/09/2026

To celebrate new trainsets entering revenue service soon, here's a photo I took back in July of this same new Airo set crossing Portland's steel bridge during one of the early test runs. Really excited for the future of @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov! #filmphotography #hasselbladxpan

The head unit of a shiny new green and brown Amtrak Cascades Airo trainset number 7001 crossing a heavy steel double-deck lift-bridge in Portland Oregon, with a disused mill along the Williamette river in the background.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was out and about today and a young "guy" (dripping with dissociative gender ennui) asked me if I was a poet — he recognized me from a local open mic and said he liked my readings. Which always feels nice but also feels weird these days —

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Art book store on Alberta selling old club/rave/concert flyers that you remembering seeing stacked windowsills.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saw a Thievery Corporation shirt out in the wild and almost asked the kid (young adult human) where he got it but wasn't up for hearing "my parents" today.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The amount of trepidation in a cisgender medical provider’s voice when they ask “you mean anal sex?” being inversely proportional with the quality of care you’re about to receive 🙄

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thirty five years later and the transsexuals are no longer struggling to cope at work (because we don't have jobs)

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First darkroom print in 16 years.

Image of a hound holding a black-and-white photograph of a monkey puzzle pinecone

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Running through a roll of expired Tri-X on an old point and shoot from ‘97. I’m taking a darkroom refresher class this weekend (with @erinholographic.bsky.social) and the prospect of not dropping $$ on dev and scan has me a lot more willing to just ‘f about.

Image of a Polaroid 35mm 2000FF point and shoot.

Image of a film canister through the clear plastic back slit of a camera. The text 400TX 36 is visible

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We're not quite at the "9/11/2001 is as far away from us as it was from the end of the Vietnam war" point in time — but I did need to check.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

god transcribing interviews you've done and listening to yourself speak — "And then just, I don't know, it's like I don't, So many of the, You know"

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remembering two years ago how my dead name leaked via commits during a paid interview project and my contact emailed me about it out of band to reassure me it wouldn't impact their assessment, and how everyone sort of vanished after that and they declined to hire for nebulous reasons.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was on a walk with a friend yesterday and we saw some flyer for a new book and she said something like "strong gender doula energy" and I said "remember when all that felt impossibly important?" and then we both laughed.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Felt a little disconnected from Camp Miasma — I think experiencing most of those old slashers as actual objects in their time (vs. nostalgically) and a shifted experience w/r/t the Blanchard/Bailey of it all had me feeling a little outside the intended audience.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

realizing the clout with a K people won 😐

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyone have a modern camera they need fried?

Image of a Vivitar 273 flash hooked up to a electrical multimeter showing 229 V across its hot shoe

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pulled this out of the basement — an old pre-WWII Argus A2F I found thrifting twenty years ago. Shutter plunger is missing and it probably needs a new ring of felt around the interior lens edge for light tight reasons. Not sure if the lens is interesting enough to fix this up.

Image of a black and silver camera from the late-1930s/early-1940s with the maker's stamp Argus.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First rains of September have washed in. They always conjure the feelings and possibility of the city from 2005. A place as gone as 1984 was then.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering the old racket where local photo labs would slap an esoteric process name on standard C-41 film and say only their lab could develop it. Sounds like Seattle Film Works was the only operation that got in serious trouble for it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle...

en.wikipedia.org

Seattle FilmWorks - Wikipedia

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Recently scrolled through three years worth of photos to pull out the concert stuff for a project and found around 800 shots/videos (February '26 was when I started shooting film exclusively) The selfie chaff was rough.

Photos App screenshot showing a gallery, all-shows, with a photo and video count of

July 2023 - February 2026 421 Photos, 335 Videos

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They are dangers in reading transsexual magazines like @readeasel.bsky.social

Image of 14 framed Photographic prints from above

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1980s Reeses Walkman commercial but instead of chocolate and peanut butter it's Art Practice and Therapy.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Getting older is losing track of where we are in the reclaim/recrimination cycle of both Rocky Horror and Silence of the Lambs.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tri-X from 2009, shot down a stop.

Image of a figurine placed in the nook of a tree

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Humoring a guy who made a pass at you at the beach by listening to his description of each area and dying inside at his low hushed tone when he said the north end was for “the gays”.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@magicariot.com asylum Street food carts bathroom (if it hasn’t brought your attention already)

All the hottest trans girls read magica riot

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's quite embarrassing how long it took me to realize that needing and wanting some level of emotional regulation from the people around you does not, in fact, make you a monster who wants to repress the feelings and experiences of others.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nancy 8/22/26

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