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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · 2d

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Anica Cihla @atticus.haus · 9d

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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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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Oct 4

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Oct 4

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)

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Sep 15

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)

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Aug 1

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)

Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

Oak Grove PBU Church 6-5-22

YouTube video by Legion of Heretics

www.youtube.com

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

(vision3 500t)

Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Ice Cream Thieves Strike Gristedes

YouTube video by CBS New York

youtu.be

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · May 24

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I worked as Mark's assistant on this project, booking candidates and lighting a bunch of these photos. It was very fun to track down all 13 candidates

From Andrew Cuomo to Zohran Mamdani: the Race to Become NYC’s Mayor, in Photos

Scenes from the New York City Democratic Primary.

www.politico.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 17

“Sing out for him!” was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices.

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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · May 17

Just saw Karan Kandhari's "Sister Midnight." I really loved it, well worth seeing in my view.

Visually beautiful, good feminist plot. Doesn't one-dimensionalize anyone

Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Apr 29

A photo I took and developed of Zohran Mamdani

(Portra 400 in 6x4.5)

Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social · Apr 18

Recently developed film (tmax 400 shot at 800)

Our mayor, some of the candidates to replace him and my cat