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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I want to read The Brothers Karamazov. Is there a specific translation that I should seek out?

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I’ve also generally just taken a few more photos I’m proud of recently - all with my cute little compact Konica 35ef

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Ok I’m realizing I never posted my film stuff from Cincy 2025 on here LMAO I’ve got a serious backlog. Shot these on Cinestill 800T using a thrifted zoom lens, came out way better than I thought

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My tennis twitter cred can get renewed, AMA about 2 days at Cincy

Casper Ruud and Rinderknech on court at Cincy

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Realized I only interact with 2 people on Storygraph so if anyone else exists on there, feel free to connect with me. It would be great to know other people actually use this: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/alle...

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allegedarchivist's profile on The StoryGraph

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Seems like Colorplus was the perfect film stock for a sun-drenched weekend

Film photo of the front of a lake cottage

Film photo of a man and baby sitting on a swing bench looking out over a lake, from behind

Film photo of a cottage under trees on a sunny day

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Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I hate crypto, I hate online gambling, I hate AI, I hate pay-later, I hate subscription models, I hate the gig economy, I hate ring cameras, I hate drones, I hate self checkout. I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Took these two pictures less than two weeks apart (mostly to document the marquee changing the Thunderbolts name) but it’s crazy how different the 35mm film vs the iPhone camera looks. Same conditions, same place, but one looks like a memory and the other looks like a screenshot.

Picture of a person standing in part of a Regal theater, with “come see Thunderbolts today” on the marquee. It’s on film.

Picture of a person standing in part of a Regal theater, with “come see the New Avengers today” on the marquee. It’s an iPhone photo

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

God she can’t do shit. There’s a fucking rat

Toy rat still there, cat now ignoring it

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Dr Ellie Sattler: All right, I’ll go turn the power back on in the park and see what happened to Arnold. I wonder what on earth could’ve happened to him? The noble velociraptor:

A calico cat perched on a coffee table, with her two front legs held in front of her like a dinosaur.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Also had a great time taking the Ektar 100 film for a spin. Didn’t like this one as much as I thought (it’s a bit temperamental) but there are a few I loved:

Three people walking at a distance in a window-lit stairwell

The Denver capital building photographed from a high distance

The Denver skyline shot from pedestrian height

Two people walking away, trees with white blossoms shadowing them on the right side, on a sidewalk

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Tried out some lovely new 200 ISO Kodak Gold 🎞️ film stock on my Konica, these raws really tickled me. They feel so warm, which is nice for the turn in seasons. I’m still figuring out some of this camera’s wonky focus, but it’s been fun to work with it.

Cherry blossoms from below, against a bright partly cloudy sky

An oncoming train in an outdoor metro station with a dark overhang

A parking lot lined with budding trees on a warm spring day, shot from above

The black silhouette of a cat light from behind by some bright windows. The cat is seated, head tilted to the right.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hello Kitty Island Adventure has completely taken my brain over, I haven’t had time to do any personal art in a while but this little guy is the one I keep returning to when I have a few minutes to add stuff. Still not done, but has been fun to use different media than usual (pencils + paint)

A paint and colored pencil drawing of a little cat in the Sanrio style with an egg on its head, striding towards the viewer on a beach.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Also this is one of my favorite photos of me ever

Laying on couch, grinning into the camera with a calico cat on their chest.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

one of the core questions of naive government tech is "why can't we just...?" & another is "what could go wrong...?" addressing "wcwj..." earnestly will usually give you a lot of good answers to "wcgw..." & I recommend it hard to truly improve systems w/o understanding why they are as they are

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

me coming in guns-a-blazing, with absolute certainty and confidence that what I say next will eliminate any doubt about my competence

Pete Hegseth post: "So, let's me get this straight."

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Would love to see Cronenberg but the Coens would be super fun. If the Coens win, I hope they take the whole thing - PTA/Mel are so short, Jackson would be fun but a LOT of Middle-Earth, and FFC would be my second favorite. I don’t dread any of these though, which is nice!

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How dare you people fail Ridley AGAIN???

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Is there some way to cut $400 million from a university's funding that wouldn't at all affect students? Just terrible, terrible answers. We are in the midst of an full-scale assault on colleges, including non-elite ones. And Schumer is still fixated on demonizing protests that happened months ago.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Chuck Schumer is very clear that he and the Democratic Party are not going to come to the aid of higher education against Trump’s assault. He agrees with it. Quibbles on details but supports forcing universities to crack down harder against alleged antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Well the cookie is looking better but the tissue is rough

Additional progress picture, more paint touched on the tissue paper and cookie

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Realized how fucked up the proportions were, slight setback.

Progress picture, the cookie has been painted over red

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

More APS shots, this time from film 20+ years expired! Fuji 200A ISO

A Chinese-style gazebo in a lush garden on a hill

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Catastrophic next stop but we move, gotta figure out light somehow

Progress picture, more work done on the napkin

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Taking a little break from other projects to see if I can do a quick and dirty 2-3 day painting. I’m trying to follow Gurney’s process, which means doing this light acrylic wash step that I never do. I sort of like the loose look but will be finishing this, since it’s a gift for our local bakery.

A painting in progress of a checkerboard shortbread cookie on a small blue plate, partially wrapped by tissue paper. It’s a very loose, desaturated painting with visible pencil sketch lines.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Film developed! 35mm 400ISO on my Konica

Photo of a frozen/freezing small waterfall

Photo of a bobcat backhoe shoveling snow on the top of a parking garage

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Chris Parnell is aging into Ben Mendehlson

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I really thought “ads that pop up on Paramount+ whenever you pause” was the apogee of this kind of demeaning and annoying marketing, but it turns out “ads that cover your GPS when you stop” is an exciting new innovation that can both annoy you and endanger your safety!

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are “legitimate” can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them. Vermeule knows this, of course. So does Vance.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Actually, funnily enough, these photos are kind of taken looking at each other. The window in that photo looks out over the field I stood in for the farther photo

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Finally got my film back from my first spin with the Konica camera, and these are two of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken.

Portrait orientation photo of a colonial era house far away across a snowy field, on a sunny clear day.

Portrait orientation photo of a reconstructed colonial era bed under a window

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We played the episode over the last half hour with the movie’s volume super low and it really improved the experience. Great episode! Not upset we watched the movie at all, if we were gonna do it, then I’m glad we were able to immediately hear people commiserate

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Had the reverse experience today because of Blank Check with 1941. Bleak stuff

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Every day that large media outlets fail to put words like “illegal” and “unconstitutional” into their headlines is a day they are choosing to normalize a national crisis

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Nobody has ever been better at acting than Denzel Washington in a Tony Scott movie. That’s a movie star.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please go see Presence, a movie that’s much closer to Lake Mungo if it was directed by M Night than The Conjuring. If you, like me, think that sounds rad, please see it in a theater. It has a last scene that absolutely floored me: boxd.it/8Fuh3T

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A ★★★★★ review of Presence (2024)

The formal exercise of this is pretty neat, and I found it to be a gripping and sad family drama for the first 75% of the movie - but when that last 25% kicks in, Presence soars. It becomes something ...

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yet more extremely expired APS film. This Kodak stock degraded so badly, I’m never touching it again even when I go back to APS. If I can’t find the Fuji stuff, I’ll just wait LOL. That said, I like a few:

Expired film photo of a calico cat on a windowsill sunning herself

Expired film photo of young adult tennis player serving. He is mid-serve, reaching for the ball above him in the air.

Expired film photo of a calico cat nuzzling a typewriter

Expired film photo of a stark row of snow-covered trees.

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The Body Serve @thebodyserve.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Dasha into her first AO fourth round. File that under things we love to see

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Emilia Perez must be stopped at all costs, I will be watching this year’s Oscars with mounting dread

Edited screenshot from Conclave with subtitle: “This is award season Aldo. It’s not a war.”

Second screenshot showing Aldo Bellini in conclave saying “it is a war. And you have to commit to a side.”

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I love many, many things about this paper, but Venus being referred to as 'Earth's evil twin' might be top of the list 😂

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Shot a disaster of an APS Kodak roll (the Fuji stock DEFINITELY has preserved better) but I did get this horrifying image out of it! Very Inland Empire

A grainy, underexposed photo of the inside of a WMATA metro car. It is tilted at a slight angle, and the car seems to be empty. The image has an uncanny and foreboding energy, with film grain obstructing the edges of the view. It is tinted a sickly yellow.

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My only reaction to the Aussie Open draw is that I’d give almost anything to sit courtside at Fognini-Dimitrov. Whether it’s a beat down or surprisingly competitive, the shotmaking should be SO much fun. Plus there’s always the chance Fabio will curse in your direction.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/01/2025

I can’t get over how cartoonishly evil this is putting in your fucking “hate speech” policy that a particular kind of hate speech against a particular group of people is explicitly allowed - and therefore encouraged - is the kind of shit that should be done from a volcano lair with a shark moat

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Closed the year with Argylle (torturous) so we had to have a crazy three-film day yesterday and it was cleansing to the soul.

A screenshot of recent Letterboxd activity, listing The Secret of Roan Inish (4 stars), Dreams (4.5 stars), A Complete Unknown (3.5 stars) and Argylle (1 star)

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Max (painting era) @maximalisms.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

People love to complain about Zendaya over-saturation, which has always been insane to me. She’s actually not in that much stuff! In the last 5 years, she’s been in ~9 movies/TV shows, only about 3 of which she’s led. Even if you don’t think she’s good, she’s hardly “in everything.”

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