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Lou Lesko
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award-winning photographer, writer/director | ex-national geographic | co-host https://chaosandcreativity.com | co-founder sagebrush & stone studios

[if they're not a repost the photos were shot by me]
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In the spirit of the holiday, how some chill at home.
Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station
Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The latest episode of Chaos & Creativity dropped this morning.

Check it out: podcast.chaosandcreativity.com/156239/episo...
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Behind the scenes photo of the incomparable Izzy Barkey and Callan Taylor rehearsing my play (wrote&directed) "Tale of a Barfly" in November.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekYforYearPast
#theater
#play
#stage
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I love a good café. Received this piece in my weekly V&A email. Gorgeous.
The world's first museum café · V&A
The original Refreshment Room at the V&A was built in 1856 – a world first.
www.vam.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Following up my last post about KPH, I remembered a piece I wrote a few years ago that's in the same vein.

#shortwave
#amateurradio
#HAMradio
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December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Behind the defunct listening station, KPH, in Inverness, CA, some of wonderful array of antennas that stretch out in all directions.

#HAMRadio
#history
#california
#amateurradio
A post with an H shaped wood piece made used to keep open wire feeders apart is in the foreground as the first of about twenty that go off into the horizon where brown grass meets blue sky in the middle of the day.
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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From an emotional perspective, I'm thrilled Netflix bought Warners including HBO—I trust Netflix to protect art in the library. Unlike Amazon who started needlessly monkeying with the James Bond brand. A topic Kimi and I talk about on C&C.
Bitchsode: Remastering Art
Kimi and Lou are back with their well-deserved opinions in this week’s minisode or what we’re now calling bitchsodes.  When Amazon quietly erased guns from classic James Bond posters, it sparked a bi...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Spent the last 5 months writing a play—Tale of a Barfly. It went up to a sold out house.

Logline: A privileged woman loses access to her fortune and learns to bartend in search of “real life.” A parable about authenticity in an age of performance.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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My conversation with film composer Marco d’Ambrosio on the latest episode of Chaos & Creatvity

podcast.chaosandcreativity.com/156239/episo...

#film
#music

@chaosandcreativity.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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L’amour sur la Seine

#paris
#streetphotography
#photography
A black and white photo of a couple sitting on the walkway of the Seine river in Paris at the edge of the water. They are in an embrace. The couple are in the lower left of frame, the rest of the frame is filled with the river.
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Final touches before Creative Supper Club, New York starts.

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April 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Jackie Onasis Kennedy reservoir, NY
April 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Fort Point
Sun dappled brick inside Fort Point. The tower on the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge looms tall in the background.
March 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Solhouetted hills under a cloudy blue sky. One of the cumulus clouds is blocking the sun effecting sun rays in all directions. If you put a biblical quote at the bottom it would be tragic relgious propaganda. But it’s not, just a fab scene from a hike.
March 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A new episode of Chaos & Creativity is out. My conversation with the incomparable cinematographer Jaron Presant—currently working on @rianjohnson.bsky.social's Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne.

podcast.chaosandcreativity.com/156239/episo...

#photography
#cinematography
#movies
Cinematographer Jaron Presant, and Chaos & Creativity host Lou Lesko are pictured standing side by side against a dark brick wall in Brooklyn, New York.
March 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Looking at Mt. Tamalpais from the east bay on a chilly night.
In the foreground the white dots of city lights at dusk. In distance the San Francisco bay is silver sliver on the way Mount Tamslpais in Marin. The scene occupies the lower third of the frame. The upper two thirds is the orange to blue gradient of dusk.
February 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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paris
#photography #streetphotography
A tree blocks the sun, low in the sky, as the rays reflect of the Seine river.
February 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The dress on the right is McQueen worn by Naomi at his memorial in 2010.

In London for the fab Naomi exhibit at the V&A.

If you were working in the #fashion industry in late 80s early 90s connect with me. The era is legend.
February 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Lou Lesko
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Sat down with Louis Posen, founder of Hopeless Records, to talk all things music. Listen now to dive into the music community beyond the mainstream. Louis, it was a pleasure having you.

Find us on Spotify, Apple Music, and wherever else you like to listen.
February 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilm
A very young girl holds an antique camera to her eye to take a picture. Her eye is dead center in the view finder square.
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilm
An image of part of a strip of chrome film held up to the light of a window. A model headshot is depicted.
February 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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#landscapephotography
A dark, moody, low angle image looking out from shore toward a mountains across the San Francisco bay. It's low tide so the sand is striated. Dark clouds fill the top of the frame.
January 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Lou Lesko
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January 19
January 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#landscapephotography
Dimly lit, wind bent tall grass in the forground, silhouetted mid hills span midframe. Colors of a post sunset sky fades from orange above the hills to night blue through the top of the frame.
January 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.
January 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM