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A Sam in Motion

@asaminmotion.bsky.social
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He/Him. Motorcycle mechanic who spends too much on film & fancy markers. More of my art available at: samwanous.com

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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Glad you like it! Yeah, I didn’t realize how small a postcard was before starting this project so adding details is a creative challenge. After I spray a fixative clearcoat on it I can mail it to the pod
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The first postcard in a vehicle series of folks I follow on here whose art I really enjoy. @victoriascott.bsky.social stoked you got a cool new ride. I also picked up a car in 2026 and enjoy being sheltered from the rain on my commute. Excited to see what you do with the Jeep! #carsky #drawing
A hand drawing of a Jeep Cherokee on the front of a postcard
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thanks Eddie! I’ll add some happy-ass clouds for you 🤪
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thank you! And I agree, trying to be less concerned with the product and more willing to get out there and try
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A decade ago I wouldn’t believe this is how I’d want to celebrate another trip around the sun, but it felt very right. Is this the best two-point I’ve drawn? No. Is it a good drawing, not really it may become one in a few iterations. Wonderful to be out in nature, and confronting persistent fears
A two-point perspective drawing of a grill/convenience store next to a decommissioned cable ferry across the Potomac
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Has been a wild end of summer/fall but at least I’ve had some good books to read. Can’t recommend the Veiled Prophet by @devintoshea.bsky.social enough! I couldn’t put it down
Three books The Veiled Prophet, which I recently finished, False Profits - cited in the VP book about a corrupt bank BCCI, and Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge which I’m about 2/3 of the way through reading
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Slide Film Sunday: Can’t wait till Ektachrome comes back in stock, it’s a fun to shoot tho doesn’t like overexposure. I want to experiment with pushing and warming filters. I have a Ektachrome/Velvia comparison next 📷 Olympus SuperZoom3500 🎞️ Ektachrome 🧪 HC-110 (Dil A, 106°) #believeinfilm #35mm
A 70s Camero sits at a red light behind a group of motorcycles at Christmas Lake Rd in Minnesota
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh that’s awesome! I love those Triumphs, they’re so smooth. I also haven’t ridden as much as I’d like. After 6 years of it being my only vehicle,I bought a car cause my body didn’t want to winter ride again and my crankshaft sensor went out on my way into work so I have to replace it
My motorcycle, a 2020 Yamaha XSR900
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I feel that! Have you gone one any good rides recently? I’m trying to make drawn postcards of bikes, if you have a picture of yours I can try and turn it into a drawing. It won’t be good, but it will be distracting
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nice!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No way! Wild, I learned something new today! 🤓
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh really? The Polo would look interesting as a sedan. A shrunken Jetta perhaps?
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love a shooting break!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Slide Film Sunday: Getting back into a creative swing after taking a break. This laundromat in lakeside Excelsior missed an opportunity to be named “Rising Tide.” 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 50 🧪 HC-110 (Dil. A 105°F) & RA4 #believeinfilm #slidefilm #lakeminnetonka
A Tide Laundromat with a fun undulating orange roof and plate glass facade next to a low-rise office building
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Totally! I’ve always wanted to rebuild one. They’re like an analog computer to me. I think it’s kind of like a Harley where it’s *conceptually simple* but there’s a ton of mechanical intricacy needed to make that “simple” machine work
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah I think the friction plates become delaminated easily when water contaminates the oil. Something also found in automatic transmission tear down videos I’m definitely not watching too many of
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also having an off Friday, Mercury must be in the microwave. Have you watched the 2005 Robin Williams movie “Man of the Year” I rewatched it with my partner cause it’s election season here
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks! I get to peruse a lot of old manuals for my job. I was really curious cause I had never seen the internal circuit diagram for the regulator. I like doing technical drawings to try and understand the stuff I work on. And hopefully drawing some bike postcards soon
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I really appreciate you posting this. I had [incorrectly] thought a MOSFET reg was just fancier silicone doing the same job of bleeding off the excess current more precisely, but now I get that having a transistor in the circuit cuts off flow from the stator. Voltage is still built up current isn’t
A tracing of a circuit diagram of the regulator circuit in an early regulator/rectifier from the service manual of a 1970s Suzuki GS750
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Amanda Mull deep dive on the auto industry (& parts ind.) is top tier entertainment I’d pay the big bucks I don’t have for!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Haha that’s totally okay, whatever you’re comfortable with it would be very fun to meet you. Will definitely have some interesting wheeled transportation doohickeys for you to take pictures of and may even have some Ektachrome for you to experiment with!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks! That’s very sweet! I hope to make it back to the continent sometime in the next few years. If you’re back on the American East Coast near DC/Baltimore we gotta get you on a motorcycle 😎
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I do love the VW Polo, and Lupo maybe just because we don’t get them here but would love to drive one someday
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thanks Eddie
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Difficult week, not in the headspace to do any photography. Taking a pause, but there’s always still maintenance to do. Processing the loss of a family member I went to a safe space for me, working on a car. Refreshed the PCV system on the C30 & vapor blasted the oil filter housing #carsky
The oil filter and PCV catchcan/ valve housing before taking anything apart or cleaning it. The PCV or “Positive Crankshaft Ventilation “ system allows the excess air pressure built up below the pistons to safely exit the engine without blowing all the oil with it and filtering out as much of the oil mist as possible to reduce smog causing emissions After cleaning the metal components in our glass bead vapor honing machine The cleaned and rebuilt oil filter/PCV back in its home in the engine bay of my Volvo C30
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love the Praktica LB2! I find the focus a little tricky but when it turns out it’s fantastic
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your art creates so much joy in an increasingly joyless and crushing world. I may be just a silly boy on a silly little bike, but that’s objective creative success in my book!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You can dev it with HC-110 B&W and Cinestill ECN-2 dev or RA4 color paper dev. Slides are less forgiving to overexposure otherwise basically same as normal color negative photography imho. Have fun I’m sure they’ll come out great!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So much fun to make fan art for my favorite pod! And Mattie signed my copy of Simplicity! Hyah!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That’s dope!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Slide Film Sunday: Things are getting Municipal edition. Despite my best efforts to forget, there were many reminders it’s election season across Minnesota this summer. Not an endorsement, I just liked the Excelsior sign 📷 Minolta Maxxum 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 50 🧪 HC-110 & RA4 #slidefilm #believeinfilm
A wall painted saying “welcome to Excelsior Minnesota” an election sign for a local government hopeful is in the foreground
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also listen to @nogodsnomayors.com
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had a fantastic time visiting the Small Press Expo in North Bethesda today. If you’re in the DMV it’s going on tomorrow as well and you should visit! I got to meet an artist I look up to and made some No Gods No Mayors fan art. Introduced to lots of new art and wonderful artists today… success!
Draft drawings of London [KY] mayor Randall Weddell’s Lamborghini Urus and he’s depicted as a heptapod, to know why you’ll have to listen to the showAnother earlier iteration of the planning drawingUsing tracing paper to iterate Some of the zines Aaron and I picked up today at the show. So many amazing artists
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yeah, I finally cleaned off my desk last week and it’s a game changer
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That’s a good Bad Religion song! Haha 🎶🎶🎶
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dang! That’s gorgeous and so much work!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Slide Film Sunday: A day at the sandbar on Lake Minnetonka. Very happy to have captured it on slide film, one of the most relaxing places to visit. 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 50 🧪 HC-110 (Dilution A, 105°F) & RA4 #believeinfilm #slidefilm #35mm #lakeminnetonka
Several boaters parked at a shallow sunken island “sandbar” in one of the lake’s many bays. The water is shallow enough for people to walk around, throw a frisbee and even have their dogs enjoy the shallow water
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This one was just for me. Wanted a photo of this building, not for its architecture but because it was the former office of Tom Peters (Midwestern Bernie Madoff) who ran a Ponzi scheme there and the image of it on the news has been in my brain for almost 20 years, so I captured it on film
A nondescript office building, formerly the headquarters of a regional Ponzi scheme now houses a software as a service company. I’m not big on determinism but stuff like this challenges that belief
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haha thank you, I think those skilled atrophied in the decade-ish hiatus I took from driving a car. It’s been a steep learning curve for me to learn how to parallel parked my C30. I blame it on being a short car with a long wheelbase 🤣
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
2017 helping my friend an former housemate move from DC to Denver. I parallel parked her Forester with a UHaul trailer in Chicago and Kansas City, still one of my proudest accomplishments.
A younger me posing with a U-Haul I street parked somewhere in a Midwest city
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In Case You Were Wondering…… 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Ilford PanF 50 🧪 HC-110 (Dilution B, 4min) #believeinfilm #monochrome #35mm
A sign exclaiming “You Don’t Want Creeping Bellflower” in invasive plant in Minnesota that can take over landscapes
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Samuel Benjamin @samuelxl5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've hit 7,500 followers! It's time for an #artshare! Post your original art, SFW & NSFW are welcome! Like, share, interact, and tag your fellow artists! No slop!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Slide Film Sunday: A bit of ice cream after being in the sun all day. Sebastian Joe’s is one of those places that feels frozen in amber. I’m glad my photo of it turned out, still learning this photography thing 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 50 🧪 HC-110 & RA4 #believeinfilm #35mm #slidefilm
A photo of a que of people at Sebastian Joe’s ice cream stand in Excelsior, MN with Lake Minnetonka in the background
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh my those are some fun little carbs. Love how intricate the slide mechanisms are on the SOHC Hondas
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Honda CB750?
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve been rolling the dice on some expired stuff. If you want to shoot it I’ll send you some and develop it after you’re done 🤓
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Maxxum handles slide film so well, I’m in Heaven! Thanks again for it!
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Found a cool Vespa at Maynard’s One thing I really miss when driving a car is the ability to park almost anywhere on a bike. 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 50 🧪 HC-110 (Dilution A, 105°,6.5min) & RA4 #believeinfilm #slidefilm #motosky
A blue Vespa with a small windshield is parked next to a sign that says “Reserved Parking: Motorcycles, Bicycles, Scooters”
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A Sam in Motion @asaminmotion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meow! 😸
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