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Niiiick Henry
@friction.bsky.social
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Plays tabletop games, sells cameras, donates blood, smells like chlorine. Loves metal. Using bsky mostly for personal interests.
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
guy poking something with a stick meme with the text “c’mon, love what you love” poking “the soft animal of your body”
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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We did a bonsai workshop in CO. The grow light shines on them from 9am for 9 hours as we don’t actually have anywhere in the house with enough natural light. They're lurid. Anyway, I can’t help but think that these lil guys will be fun with the bellows at macro distances.
High contrast photo of a small tree in a pot, electrical plugs in the background. Two bonsai trees in little pots on ceramic holders, behind them a small plastic stand has three goosenecks extending from them
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“every human being is worthy of attention and that the origins of every good and evil capability of the universe may be found by observing a single, even very humble, person and the turnings of his or her mind.”

George Saunders, talking as much I am convinced about local journalism as fiction.
For a young writer, reading the Russian stories of this period is akin to a young composer studying Bach. All of the bedrock principles of the form are on display. The stories are simple but moving. We care about what happens in them. They were written to challenge and antagonize and outrage. And, in a complicated way, to console. Once we begin reading the stories, which are, for the most part, quiet, domestic, and apolitical, this idea may strike you as strange; but this is a resistance literature, written by progressive reformers in a repressive culture, under constant threat of censorship, in a time when a writer's politics could lead to exile, imprisonment, and execution. The resistance in the stories is quiet, at a slant, and comes from perhaps the most radical idea of all: that every human being is worthy of attention and that the origins of every good and evil capability of the universe may be found by observing a single, even very humble, person and the turnings of his or her mind.
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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bellows with a light leak and an as-is copal shutter and my man z, @behindthebluemotel.com , has peer pressured me into borrowing a fuller 4x5 for a little bit…
A bellows camera on a rail with a blue lensboard with a black and chrome lens mounted
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Back in 2010 I was in a play and I met my dear friend @thomascardwell.com
Two men in costume, one a leather vest over loose white shirt and the other in some kind of upholstery and feathered hat
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Similar, but different Nocton vs Argus (called it venus in the last post?)

Nocton: 435g, .17m close focus, 70mm long 52mm filter

Argus: 835g, .5m close focus, 110mm long 72mm filter
photo of two cameras on a glass countertop, one camera is a bit larger but the lens is looks twice the size Two lenses upright on a glass countertop one is much larger than the other
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Jon all charmed up
Color photo of a man with long hair holding his chin while scowling at the camera, he stands in front of an open UPS truck, the driver taking a call while standing toward the front of the truck. The digital frame is sprockets, as though it were a film image. A high contrast photo of a man making duck lips, most of his face is washed out, but he’s got long hair and the area around him is indistinct.
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This time Randy’s on Charmera.
A man making an open-mouthed upset face holds his hand in front of his face - the hand is wearing an orange glove. He’s in a warehouse, another figure near him is mostly out of the frame, this other figure is wearing a denim jacket.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Picked this up at a bookshop in Fort Collins as a staff recommendation. Bizarre, impressionistic, challenging in that the three protagonists keep failing and not getting what they want - this tension kept me uncomfortable and on edge. Full of fey and toothy shadows.
Cover if Caitlin Starling’s The Starving Saints, a Novel. The cover has pink title text over a somewhat disturbing icon of a black eobed figure holding a frames honeycomb. The hood is filled with distorted faces.
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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So much enjoyment from this little keychain camera.
Color photo of a woman looking over the top of some empty gallon jugs. Behind her some reference manuals and camera wall paper. There’s a digital border like 35mm sprockets around the photo. High contrast photo of a person in profile, they have on glasses and a short haircut. A bearded man in glasses wearing a Pre Loved to Re Loved tee shirt smiles looking off camera. There’s a digital border like 35mm sprockets around the photo. High contrast photo of a man with the hood of his shirt up. He’s smiling.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I found two dead cardinals, weeks apart, in the same spot outside my side door. This was a decade ago. Eventually revised the poem I wrote about the experience, with the help of Tony at Indy Untitled and Ali Trotta via a kickstarter reward.
Cover of Indy Untitled Zine, Volume Two, October 2025. The cover is a cloudy sky with skyscraper glass on the left of the frame. To the Dead Cardinal I’d have trampled your still, small corpse Red feathers frosted to dead oak leaves, But habit has its way of looking down - I saw your sandy vest and Cardinal sleeves. I had a pre-work ritual of hurry, Take out the trash, or masturbate. Make coffee, breakfast, lunch Pick three of five or be late. You remained, unmutilated when I came back Phone held out before me like a ward To take a picture for Facebook and I promised To bury you as soon as I returned. Rushing, hurry, temples buzzing I called you my friend Time will make liars of us all Now or in the end. Re-dressed in a red vest over gray sleeves I circled back at the appointed hour: Were you already a widow When the air captured you, stilled you, stalled your flight Did your mate die before you grew cold - did the love sour? My wife started dinner, I took the time for repetition of the morning ward my repetition of winter's freezing night emulating the air that captured you, stopped you, stole your flight using my fancy camera, off-axis flash, I kissed you with cold light Time will make liars of us all, now or in the end. Tied you in a nest of spent grocery sacs While a cat buried her piss at the corner The earth here in January is too hard for hands I put you in the trash, your only mourner
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Charming
Dramatic high contrast picture of two women, one in a beanie and a jackolantern sweater and another with bat ears and batman on her shirt. A shrieking bell pepper cut like a jackolantern lying in a pile of pepper strips, with a digitally added sprocket frame dramatic high contrast photo if a woman smiling over her shoulder, some computers in the background high contrast photo of a man with his hand over his mouth, eyebrow raised
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Kodak Charmera Posting. Some dudes from work and my wife’s keychain.
lofi picture of a gearshift and some keys, a gray Kodak Charmera on a keychain is prominent. There’s a digital frame added as though the picture were a scan of 35mm film and the sprockets are showing. Color photo of a bald, bearded man with a little window light the corner of his mouth. There’s a digital frame added as though the picture were a scan of 35mm film and the sprockets are showing. A bearded man in glasses squints at the camera. There’s a digital frame added as though the picture were a scan of 35mm film and the sprockets are showing. A man in a ballcap looks concerned while holding a cordless phone away from his face - in the background a large yellow logo of an old video camera is next to the words RENTAL HOUSE by Roberts Camera. There’s a digital frame added as though the picture were a scan of 35mm film and the sprockets are showing.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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bad element, replacement less than $45 - nine screws on the outside and two inside the oven. Bonus sweeping behind the range.

Here’s hoping I didn’t look upon wavelengths of light that cause permanent damage cause it was /bright/ when it burned.
The heating element for an electric oven lying on a wooden floor, at one curve the element is pitted and broken.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Neighbor’s oven to the rescue.

They said there was a thanksgiving years ago when their oven did the same and they finished the pies in the oven at my house- then the previous occupant’s, but the same oven.

Christ, I do not want to replace this very simple oven with a computer.
A rectangular, glass casserole dish hanging out of an oven, the vegan cheese eerily sharp because it didn’t melt like dairy.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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we memeing
Me: I'll make a shepard's pie for my friend who just had a baby The oven: Jason Bateman saying “The fuck you are.” but superimposed over his head is a photo of a glowing oven element
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula
A young Jude Law smiling faintly
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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They’re glorious
lowfi Charmera frame photo of a man in a red tee sitting and looking at his hand - he’a wearing a red wizard’s hat A no dynamic range photo of a figure touching their face, which is shrouded by a large brim. A brick wall and some printed photos are visible in the background
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Some PSU and WKU students at Mountain Workshops…Rocinante, Frankenstein 200.
A group of young men standing in front of a tree in small town. One wears a camera around his neck. A group of four younger people and a middle aged man standing in a group in front of a tree in a small town.
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Moved Interdimensional Monsters into my office to make room for @poststructuralblancmange.bluemotelstudios.com in the dining room.
Vertical photo of a large, square painting of a toothy smile with dozens of eyes above it. In the middle of the painting the words GOOD VIBES are stenciled in gold paint. The painting hangs on a white wall above stacks of books. Photo of an orange wall on which hangs some colorful prints and a large, square painting of a toothy smile with dozens of eyes above it. In the middle of the painting the words GOOD VIBES are stenciled in gold paint. It hangs on an orange wall above a white chair rail and gray paint on the wall below.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I was actually worried these frames wouldn’t come off. Biz was a video coach and had other responsibilities but we got a little time to take some photos with Rocinante. Frankenstein 200. #believeinfilm
Black and white 4x5 image of a woman standing in a planter space in front of a tree and a small town brick street. She wears baggy clothes and is smiling, hands folded in front of her waist. Black and white photo of a woman in a checked shirt buttoned at the top, her hands folded over each other, she smiles at the camera.
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Gotta make another one of these with “sales guys” and “I want you to work with me and not a big box store.”
Ashcammm meme where a tweet from a woman with text “guys literally only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting” is followed by a picture. In this case a screenshot of BoJack Horseman looking pained with the subtitles “I want to feel good about myself. The way you do. And I don’t know how.”
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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it’s picture
a 4x5 negative held up before a ceiling light, depicted is a woman in baggy clothes in front of a tree and a small town’s row of buildings
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Oh, yeah, that’s just the dang sun.
an inverted cellphone photo of a 4x5 negative of a figure standing on the roof of a building, the rolling hills of Kentucky and the glaring sun in the background. an inverted cellphone photo of a 4x5 negative of a figure standing on the roof of a building, the rolling hills of Kentucky and the glaring sun in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Hotel development. All Frankenstein 200, shot on two different days and in the dev at the same time. The paired photos were paired in the tray in the stearman. Not sure why the rooftop pic has such messed up blobbage in it. Maybe it’s just flare.
Black and white 4x5 negative, a man has his arm around a woman and is kissing her temple black and white 5x4 negative, a woman in a MW50 hoodie leans against a man. black and white 4x5 negative of a figure standing in bright light on a rooftop and there’s a blob in the top right quadrant of the frame black and white 4x5 negative of a figure standing in bright light on a rooftop and there’s a blob in the top right quadrant of the frame
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM