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Chris Ubik

@chrisubik.bsky.social
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Purveyor of Happy Vibes | Ambivert | World’s Best Asexual Art Nude Photographer | NC Courage Season Ticket Holder | Arsenal | NWSL | USWNT | JHU alum | Cat Dad | Superhero Sidekick | OM System/Leica Enthusiast |

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Rotten Souls Photography @rottensoulsphotos.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Medium format, fuck yeah! I just developed my first roll of 120 ever and the results look hella promising. I really need this to hurry up and dry so I can start scanning. The film stock is Ilford HP5+ 400.
A portion of 120 film hung to dry.
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Rotten Souls Photography @rottensoulsphotos.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Claire in natural light. Nikon FM2N Nikon 50mm f/1.8 E Series ILFORD HP5 Plus pushed to 800
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Rotten Souls Photography @rottensoulsphotos.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Two more rolls down. Unfortunately I’m traveling this weekend and won’t be able to do any test scans until Sunday.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@ivysublime.bsky.social in natural light, killing it as usual. Most of yesterday's session was taken on film and I can't wait to see the scans.
Close up natural-light portrait of a woman in profile.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My Olympus OM2n is getting CLA’d and I miss her desperately.
Late middle aged dude taking a self portrait with his beloved Olympus OM2n.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Christmas Wrapping. I would break in seconds.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Hallelujah Trail.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Claire and I have been artistically collaborating for eight years as of last week. I always feel like I am cheating on her hair color when I shoot her in b&w, because the red tresses are just so gorge! Taken with my OM2n + 85 mm f/2 on, let’s say Kodak Gold 200.
Color photo of a red haired woman in a white tank top captured on film. She is staring straight into the camera and the late day sun is lighting up her hair.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Claire, from the No I Won’t Shoot Your Indy Album Cover collection. Definitely taken with Acros 100 and my OM2n + 85 mm f2.
Black-and-white photo of a woman leaning against a tree with a pensive look on her face. She is staring off somewhere in the middle distance over the photographer’s right shoulder.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Everything is terrible and horrible. So here is Ann-Margaret and Desi Arnez Jr. on the “Here’s Lucy” show in 1970 doing a dance number that’s been remixed to Prince’s “Kiss”. Ann-Margaret was hip AF! 🔥
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
One day I’ll remember to jot down the camera and lens I used, but today is not that day! So I’m going to go with: Nikon FM2 and 35mm f/2.8 (they were in my bag). The film is Kentmere 200.
Black and white photo of a women in the forest. She’s wearing a flannel shirt and looking up and to the right of the photographer. It looks like an indie album cover.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hells to the yeah!
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Ivy Sublime @ivysublime.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
With @chrisubik.bsky.social wearing my Marie Mur leather harness, which I can't believe I had never shot in prior to this photoshoot. #blackandwhite #bnw #bnwcaptures #moodyportrait #fineart #artmodel #fineartphotography #leather #lingerie #model #monochrome
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I developed film at home for the first time since the late 1980s today! The roll on the left is Tri-X; on the right is CineStill BwXX. Both were developed in CineStill DF96. The hardest part wasn’t developing, it was using a changing bag and getting film on the reels for the first time in 37 years.
A photo of two strips of drying analog film stock.
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Ivy Sublime @ivysublime.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Another from the wealth of archives @chrisubik.bsky.social and I share. I was very obsessed this timeframe with "anonymity" so I shot in wigs, accessories, and costumes that obscured my identity. This is what longterm collaborations between models and photographers will grant! #artmodel #surreal
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 11/07/2025
I think one of the hangups around sex workers rights is that everyone else adjacent feels like it's an affront to center sex workers because other groups also suffer from similar problems But my point is- These are not mutually exclusive positions This is a time for solidarity, not division
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2025
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2025
RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man real heroes use duct tape
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A group photo of General Sheman and his staff overlayed with the words “Straight Outta Atlanta”
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I think our hit rate for “let’s try this thing that we’ve never done before” is a solid hundred percent. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to properly light you, and yet…
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Ivy Sublime @ivysublime.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A fun experiment in a nylon body stocking – I’m obsessed with nylon textures and I wish I could play around more with this concept. With @chrisubik.bsky.social 📸 #artmodel #travelingmodel #fineartphotography #fineartmodel #ncmodel #blackandwhite #bnw #model #nylon
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025
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	OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

The San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of “distillation”, which it suspects to be from DeepSeek.

The technique is used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable ones, allowing them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.

Distillation is a common practice in the industry but the concern was that DeepSeek may be doing it to build its own rival model, which is a breach of OpenAI’s terms of service.

“The issue is when you [take it out of the platform and] are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes,” said one person close to OpenAI.
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Ivy Sublime @ivysublime.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
And just like that, Ivy whirls her way into the bsky Universe, tits out and surrounded by billowing fabric. Would you expect any less from a Goddess? 😘 @chrisubik.bsky.social on the lens
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Mike the Cool Guy, though the resemblance is more aspirational than actual.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Me and the three people who read my skeets.
Publicity photo of the cast of The Young Ones. Left to Right: Vyvyian, Neil, Mike, and Rick.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The lens hood is goofy AF, but 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I haven’t been loving my Sony A7R III since purchasing it and came thiiiiiis close to trading her in this weekend. It’s kinda heavy and full frame lenses exacerbate that problem. So today I got myself something light and svelte: the 40mm 2.5 G. Totally changes the handling for the better!
Photo of a Sony A7R III with a 40mm f/2.5 lens. It is my belated Christmas gift to myself and it makes for a hella light and portable setup.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? While there is a 100% chance of rescue, it is equally likely that you will be exposed to shenanigans that will make you wonder if you were safer with the kidnappers 😏
A still from the Strange New Worlds episode “The Elysian Kingdom” featuring the characters Ortega, M’Benga, and Pike.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Seems a little fortuitous, but I’ll take it 😏
My word for 2025 is “providential”
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nope! I also have a dear friend who has never called me anything but “Cubik,” because that was my login name on the system he and I virtually met on over 20 years ago. It just bled over into real life.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yes! My burlesque buddy, Ivy, is forever Ivy. I know her government name, but calling her by it feels odd. I confessed that to her years ago and was assured that “Ivy” is fine.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I pity Ian Betteridge’s mentions this morning.
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👹 Sarky 🐻🆖 @sarkyfancypants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator" You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor... You are not a faceless "content" machine.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Achievement unlocked!
The completed LEGO Jazz Club in all its den-of-inequity glory!
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The second floor of the #LEGO Jazz club is complete! I was going to wait until this weekend to complete the build, but I’m feeling bold in the new year.
The completed second floor of the LEGO Jazz Club.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
every time I see a mutual post some piece of AI shit, I die a little more inside - why don't you just stab me with a fucking ice pick instead
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If you’re excited for 2025 you’re a fucking moron. The Washington Post is going to announce a Democracy Summit hosted by Mike Lindell. CNN will give Bari Weiss a show called “Cancel Queen.” The January 6th Choir will perform live on CBS Mornings with The Piano Guys
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The ground floor of the #LEGO Jazz Club is complete! I got this set for Christmas and as it is rainy today in the North Carolina Piedmont, I figured now is the best time to dive in. This set has three floors, but I’m calling it after one. The tips of my fingers are a little tender at the moment.
Color photo of the ground floor of the Lego Jazz Club.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I also had my OM-5 with me, which I am still struggling to love, and my Panasonic Leica 9mm Summilux, which I unabashedly love. I primarily use the PanaLeica in my day job, but it was a fun experience going ultra wide in WDW.
A color photo of the Tree of Life in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Park.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Naturally, I had my OM-1 with me. These two beauties are one second exposures, handheld. Try *that* with any other camera system 😏
A color photo of fireworks behind Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom.A color photo of fireworks behind Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom. The castle is in silhouette.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Last week, Megan and I went to Disney World to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. Not only that: we did so sans child! Which honestly was a very mixed bag. I enjoyed the freedom to move at the pace my 55-year-old frame was comfortable with, but I missed having her there almost every moment.
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Chris Ubik @chrisubik.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
#TheReasonForTheSeason
A black and white promo photo of the baddies from Die Hard, with the words “Merry Christmas!” at the top. They are scowling with delight.
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Phil Murphy @crashtesterx.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A Happy Holidays to all 🖖🖖😁 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas to all
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
this is put very concisely and I just wanna report from middle age that you can fight this within yourself. it happens! you soften! but you just keep checking in with yourself and being sure that softening is toward people who are threatened, who have it worse than you. simple internal housekeeping!
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Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This is a great reminder that "Christmas in Prison" is the greatest song ever written, and I'm grateful for the seasonal aspect of it because otherwise I would be singing it until the words lost meaning.
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If this is a difficult season for you I want you to know that the band that had a hit with the blender song in 1998 thinks you're alright
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