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MaxSidman
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Enthusiast, practitioner. Mostly
#photography & #vinyl #records, some #boxing, occasional #travel, miscellaneous debris. Always curious, based in #Oakland.

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Rainy day self portrait in the window of a Lyonnaise strip club. Lyon, France, October, 2025.

Leica MP, Elmarit 28mm f/2.8, Kodak UltraMax 400.

#believeinfilm #photography #travel #selfportrait #streetphotography
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I refuse to watch Paul fight, and I’m kinda bummed out (but not surprised) that AJ even entertained this theater of spectacle, but I’m glad to hear that it ended the way it did. Getting his dumb jaw broken in two places is getting off light. Boxing is dangerous and AJ is a legit heavyweight […]
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December 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
New photo gallery post, images made during a stopover in #nyc a couple months ago. Leica MP, Elmarit 28mm f/2.4, Kodak Ultra Max 400.

#photography #streetphotography #believeinfilm #leica_camera

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New York City | 2025
There’s always so much to see and do in New York, stepping off a plane for a mere stopover in that city always feels like a starting gun going off, the beginning of a sprint. This year, with less than 72 hours before I jumped on another plane headed
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December 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
#nowplaying Miclotronic Commandos, S/T (Sanctimonious Records, 2025). Underground West Bay rap legends Jihad (Third Sight) and Luke Sick (Sacred Hoop, Grand Invincible) team up for this modern boom-bap classic. Beats and scratches from B Squeezy, Eons One […]

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December 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Normally don’t pay any attention to anything Grammys related but this is good. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/12/19/g-s1-102766/grammy-fela-kuti-afrobeats
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Oregon. 3rd October, 2025.

📷 Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160

#pdx #filmphotography #kodakportra160 #hasselblad500cm
December 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Transplant, San Francisco, CA, December 2025.

#monochrome #blackandwhite #streetphotography #photography #sanfrancisco
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“I've spent my whole life chasing something,” Crawford said. “Not belts, not money, not headlines. But that feeling, the feeling you get when the world doubts you, but you keep going and prove everyone wrong.” I wouldn’t call his retirement a surprise, I’d call well earned. (And frankly I’m glad […]
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December 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Chill, analog, instrumental beats for cold, foggy mornings…

https://djharrison.bandcamp.com/album/pen-eyes
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Recently received my copy of Trevor Traynor’s excellent Newsstands photo book. The published culmination of over a decade of work, it contains 110 photos of newsstands in 23 cities around the world. I can’t overstate how good this project is, and how nicely this […]

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December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Fresh instrumental flip for the Xmas playlist, courtesy of the Bay’s own DJ Raw B…
https://djrawb.bandcamp.com/track/god-rest-single
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thinking about going into the City and taking photos at SantaCon today. On the other hand fuck that.
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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They say you get more conservative as you get older, but I’m 62 and I’m currently reading an oral history of anti fascist activism in Portland, Oregon, in the 1980s and ‘90s. If anything, I’m getting more radicalized as I get older.
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Empire

I’ve taken several photos of the Empire State Building, but this is probably the oddest. I was struck by its reflection in this building that sits over Penn Station (not Madison Square Garden). Pentax 17, Kodacolor 200, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm #halfframe
December 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“It should be noted how incredibly stupid all of this is, which is perhaps appropriate for the year 2025, in which most of the economy consists of reckless gambling on AI.” 💯💯💯
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115702475820042280
404 Media (@404mediaco@mastodon.social)
People who bet on "AI" did not win and are incredibly mad. https://www.404media.co/architects-of-ai-wins-time-person-of-the-year-sends-gambling-markets-into-a-meltdown/
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December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#nowplaying Harvey Milk, WhaRvEy milK (Chunklet Industries, 2025). A lost 1994 session at WREK Studio by Athens, GA purveyors of the finest bummer-sludge jams, edited and mastered for this just-in-time-for-the-holidays release. Heavy, heavy, heavy. Get some […]

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December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Damn. RIP Martin Parr. "I make serious photographs disguised as entertainment." Such a great photographer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5m0mnvnvmo
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#nowplaying Roland Kirk, The Inflated Tear (Atlantic, 1968). This reissue on red vinyl is hard to date — Discogs doesn’t have one listed, nor does the LP jacket, all the numbers match the original release, which it’s definitely not. Great album though. Been […]

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December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
#psa (pozole service announcement): Glenview Taqueria in #oakland currently has #pozole verde in the menu and it’s damn good.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
#nowplaying A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders (Jive, 1993). It’s #midnightmaraudersmonday y’all. #vinyl #rap #hiphop #records
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Yvonne Lam is just brutal in her review of KFC's bánh mì, and rightly so.

Why wouldn't you just go to a Vietnamese bakery and get the real deal for less than KFC's fried chicken coleslaw and mayo sandwich?

"I bite into my KFC bánh mì, and there is silence. No crunch, no crackle. My teeth sink […]
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November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM