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Julian Blank
@julianblank.bsky.social
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https://bio.site/julianblankpdx

Photographer, web designer, birder, reader, human.
Dog father to Senator Cedar St. Claire.
Musings of a silly lad from Portland, Oregon. He/him
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This scene at one of my favorite haunts caught my eye. March 2025.
#portlandoregon
#kodakportra160
#analogfilm
#minoltax570
#shootfilm
March 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Word has it DOGE has terminated the five men protecting the cursed seal that holds the five dark sages in their slumber
March 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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A simple summer scene from June 2024.

#portland
#olympusXA2
#kodak
#kodak400
#analogfilm
#35mm
#summer2024
March 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Looking forward to this event! It's going to be a blast. 🛼
pdxfilmleague.bsky.social PDX Film League @pdxfilmleague.bsky.social · Feb 28
📅 March 16, 2025 | 🕒 3-5 PM
📍 Oaks Park Roller Rink | 🎟️ $13 (incl. skates)
🎟️ Buy tix: oakspark.com/rinktix
📜 Sign waiver: oakspark.com/roller-skating-rink

📸 All are welcome at our events.
🎉 After-party at Jakes Place (8039 SE 17th Ave)

Dress in early 2000s style or just bring your enthusiasm!
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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My Heartbreakers? Petty.
afarley308.bsky.social Adam! @afarley308.bsky.social · Feb 28
My Midnight Runners? Dexy's
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Feb 27
My Cannibals? Fine and Young.
February 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side
February 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A scene from a beach house in Neskowin, Oregon in November 2024.
Shot with my Olympus XA2 with Cinestill 800T.

#neskowin
#oregon
#olympusxa2
#cinestill800t
#pacificocean
#film
#analogphotography
#lightleak
A light leak scene in Neskowin, Oregon in November 2024. Taken with my Olympus XA2 witj Cinestill 800T film.
February 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Neon pizza sign on W Burnside St. in downtown Portland, Oregon. December 2024.
Shot with my Olympus XA2 on Cinestill 400D.

#portland
#filmphotography
#olympusxa2
#cinestill400d
#oregon
#neon
#pizza
#lightleak
A neon pizza sign on West Burnside St. Downtown Portland, Oregon.
February 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Sharing once more because many have told me it was helpful and expounding slightly. Generally and broadly in a way where you can be flexible when need be, decide a) how much time / resources / skills and so-on you're able to give weekly. Give 80% to your cause and 20% to those of your community.
alexsteed.bsky.social Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · Jan 22
Unsolicited advice: pick one or two issues and whole-ass your support or advocacy and activism. Obviously remain open to show up for other folks’ organizing if it falls outside of your focus, but it’s gonna get tempting to stand for everything, which is a recipe for burnout and disappointment.
January 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Mt. St. Helens on January 28th 2025. I snapped this on a walk in Oaks Bottoms Wildlife Refuge in Portland, Oregon.

#mountain
#mtsthelens
#volcano
#portland
#nikon
#nikonz6ii
#photography
Mt. St. Helens on a crisp January day.
January 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Spotted this 1960 Ford Falcon on my morning walk with the doggo today. 🌞

#nikon
#ford
#portland
#classiccar
January 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Some shots of the mountains from the Dee Wright Observatory in central Oregon. September 2024.
#sistersmountains #mtwashington #doggo #oregon #mountains #nikon #nikkorzlens #doubleexposure
Sisters mountains at sunset in September 2024. Double exposure of Mt. Washington at sunset in September 2024. Triple exposure of Mt. Washington in September 2024. Me and my doggo Cedar.
January 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A selfie with the doggo on a crisp morning walk. December 2024.
#nikon #doggo #selfie
A selfie with the doggo on a crisp morning walk in December 2024.
January 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Franklin Foto and PDX Film League are@proud@to announce the first collaborative print night! All experience levels welcome. $20 at the door. Only 16 spots available.

Sign up link: www.eventbrite.com/e/1203989828...
January 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Give this a read if you’re grasping for straws like I am.
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jan 21
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Fisheye nikon 8mm on Fuji c200
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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A rad fisheye shot of @mikeack.bsky.social and I by @shaulco.bsky.social at Controversial Coffee in Seaside, Oregon.
#fisheye #nikon #seaside #oregon #coast
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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A few fisheye shots my friend @shaulco.bsky.social took of me at the coast today. #nikon #fisheye #oregoncoast #seaside
January 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Drove to the coast today with a couple pals. Here’s the wreck of the Peter Iredale on the northern coast of Oregon.
#oregon #coast #shipwreck #nikon
January 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The ocean will have us all.
#pacificocean #kodak
January 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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mary shelley’s frankenstein is a timeless classic that dares to ask the question which one of these mfers is supposed to be the monster.
January 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Happy Christmas fronds!
🎄♥️✨ #christmas2024
December 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Little Saint Nick by The Beach Boys is one of my favorite Christmas songs because "Christmas comes this time each year" is the most Brian Wilson lyric possible. It's a statement of fact.

"How does Christmas make you feel, Brian?"
"It comes this time each year."
December 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM