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Andy Adams

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Hi! I’m Andy, a curator + writer in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I study images and ideas. In my free time, I publish FlakPhoto Digest, a newsletter for photography people. 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news/about 📸 https://linktr.ee/flakphoto

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Nov 13

Hey, everybody, I just wanted to show my face and say Hi. I'm Andy. I love pictures and write about them in my newsletter. More about me here: www.flakphoto.news/about

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17h

Is Bluesky the best social platform in 2025? It might be.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 14h

Hot coffee on a cool fall day. Does it get any better? ☕

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Theresa Therrien @tdtherrien.bsky.social · 18h

This is the truest thing ever written. We aim for some outward measure when it’s really all about how you live life on the daily.

Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 18h

Try to live in alignment with what truly matters to you.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 16h

I watched this on my flight home last night and really appreciated it. It's funny how some topics are so arbitrarily taboo and uncomfortable to talk about. Ultimately, our minds are shaped by our thoughts about our bodies. Spend some time with this film when you can.

Gary Shteyngart On His Botched Circumcision | “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong” | The New Yorker

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 16h

I think that's my point, it can be helpful for Substack growth, but that limits how I use it. It feels constrained.

Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17h

I like Notes, too. Still, I feel like I can only use it to share Substack links. Maybe it's just in my head. I'm still figuring it out. Does it make sense?

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17h

Is Bluesky the best social platform in 2025? It might be.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17h

Ha. I hear you.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Feb 9

It's exciting to see so many photographers and artists migrating to Bluesky. Connecting with each other is the first hurdle — If you make pictures, please reply to this post or share it so more art folks see it. I hope we can create a virtuous circle and make it easier to find each other. Cheers!

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

Of course, the last exhibit I visited reminded me that I was in a state governed by some of the worst Republican actors in recent history. That didn't leave me feeling good on my way out. Still, time keeps moving, and we can impact the future if we participate. I find comfort in that. 🇺🇸

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

Things are not good in America right now, and in my opinion, there are some horrible people in power. But they aren't destined to succeed, and they won't last forever. Everything changes. There is some hope in that.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

Yesterday, a short visit to the Arkansas State House Museum in Little Rock. I love visiting places like this because they remind us how history is made in America — for the most part, it's people sitting at desks, debating ideas, and making decisions. It's not folks arguing on social media.

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 19h

He describes his camera as a compass, he continues, that “leads me to the people who I need to meet. My objective is to make sure that the history is preserved, to secure my legacy and, importantly, that of all the people who’ve stepped in front of my lens.”

‘Visual medicine’: Jamel Shabazz’s evocative photos of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

The photographer’s new book collects his pictures of the mammoth New York City park from the 1980s up until now

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

It's true! Why is that? Cheap materials? Or something else?

Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

I realized again yesterday how much time and attention we — I — waste on this stuff. It's a challenge finding signal in the noise.

Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

This is an excellent piece, and I recommend everyone read it. I studied media in college and have been fascinated with it for most of my life. Of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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PixelmanCA @pixelmanca.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 18h

I've been on the road all week, and got home last night. The thing I was most looking forward to was sleeping in my own bed. There's something about hotel beds that never quite works for me. I think it's the pillows. Either way, it's good to be home. Simple joys, right?

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Aug 22

FlakPhoto HQ 📸✨

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Excellent: youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...

Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

YouTube video by Tom Waits

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 1d

Hey friends, here are some pictures for your Saturday — Enjoy!
www.flakphoto.news/p/five-photo...

Five Photographers

Plus, a final call for my "Flashes of Brilliance" giveaway

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 1d

"Digital media, empowered by the serum of algorithmic feeds, has become super-television: more images, more videos, more isolation. Home-alone time has surged as our devices have become more bottomless feeds of video content."

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"When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video."

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"Social media has turned into television" — and newsfeed channel surfing is becoming the norm.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 1d

More good thinking from Derek Thompson:
open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

open.substack.com

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