Alec Shea

I bet it would, it's g4 I now remember. Saved me a ton of space when I was scanning microfilm

There's a lossy tiff format (tiff.g2 maybe) that is insanely good for preserving black and white scanned newspapers. I sometimes talk about it, but people don't care.

A lot of kosher candies use (at great expense) fish gelatin, which is the closest thing I can think of

A baffling spam text, booked a king crab for what?

Alec's language policy for improving American culture/society:

-Everyone bilingual in Spanish and English
-Everyone learns one regionally/locally relevant language (Yiddish, Cajun French, Pennsylvania Dutch, Navajo etc)
-Everyone learns one world language as well

A couple more photos with the Polaroid 110 my brother and I converted to Instax wide. It's really nice to have a rangefinder w/ full manual control/a nice lense for instant film

I live near a Russo-Ukrainian shop from which I occasionally get candy that is either acceptably good or awful in that same style

Looks bad

What genre of candy was it?

Another Curtis Sliwa, this was Vision3 500t in 35mm

First developed shot of Sliwa from taking some pics of him today (Tri-X 400 in 6x4.5)

Telford Taylor, the lawyer and brigadier general who helped to organize and prosecute the Nuremberg trials (he later became a strong critic the war in Vietnam), later served as an arbitrator resolving pay disputes in the NBA

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for James Price. The text says he was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. One challenge to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid.

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Some of my first 4x5 shots, including one of me

I think there's certainly a strong scriptural case for that. For example, if "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death," it's hard to imagine people passing out of existence for eternity

As a non-believer, I always thought annihilationism seemed pretty fair (as I had no expectation of life after death). Eternal torment just doesn't seem compatible with anything you can reasonably understand as love (and there are answers to that, but I don't know that any are convincing)

Valentine the cat seated upon some books (6x6, Tmax 400)

There is something to be written about the shadow Foucault that exists in the right-wing imagination. The features/ideas they pick up on/focus on are peculiar (it's a very similar process with Marx I think)

But I think it's a good point you make that they should be challenged for the *other* antisemitism they're bound to have, because there really isn't a great *within evangelical Christianity* argument against the more annoying/harmful missionary stuff

And I (from outside of both these groups) have come to the conclusion that Christianity has some basically supersessionist elements (maybe some ultra progressive types can surpass that) and that it's best to just try to discourage the most direct types

Living in Boro Park, it has been interesting to note occasional missionaries/aggressive mailings to neighbors (though still fairly rare).

There's also a group of cloistered nuns in the neighborhood who pray for "the salvation of the Jews"

Both supersessionists, of course, but one does more harm

I find this remarkable, how unchanging things have been since late recession/Obama 2nd term starting.

I was someone who thought covid might change that (in like '20-'21) but it didn't really at all

Some of my favorite pictures I took during the mayoral primary campaign

All three 6x4.5, first one Gold 200, Adams Tmax 400, Cuomo Delta 3200 (shot at 1600)

Oak Grove PBU Church 6-5-22 YouTube video by Legion of Heretics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nub...

I have finally found a recording of a Primitive Baptist Universalist service.

This group, in deep Appalachia, combines a lot of traditional primitive baptist theology and stuff like lining-out hymns with universalist theology. Very interesting

The sign for the pizza shop on the corner of my block

(vision3 500t)

Ice Cream Thieves Strike Gristedes YouTube video by CBS New York

Would it surprise you to know that the evil Greek mummy who owns it is close friends with Donald Trump?

There is a pretty healthy "Free Zone" scientology world (basically scientology protestantism) and spurns the church.

In scientology lingo they're "squirrels" and taken to be basically satanic