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Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

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Plays tabletop games, sells cameras, donates blood, smells like chlorine. Loves metal. Using bsky mostly for personal interests.

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Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

Finally developed the roll :
Donate blood, #believeinfilm

Black and white diptych of a needle drawing blood - the needle is taped in place, so is the tubing, black in the photo and filled with blood

black and white diptych of a hand with a full tube of blood running past it, the tubing is taped at the elbow, the stick covered by gauze

black and white diptych of a McDonald’s menu on the fritz

December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

half a skillet of cornbread, cut, bitten piece held in frame by thumb & fi gers

December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Niiiick Henry

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Other views at the same point. No additional finger. Canon 28mm f/1.8 on the IVsb. Glad I made my friends wait while I clambered up to get these. Bonus fourth pic is digital but still #believeinfilm

Black and white photo of sun dappled rocks and tree branches stretching across the top of the frame.

Black and white photo of a tree with windswept limbs stretching left across the frame, mostly in shadow but with some sun dappling it and the crags from which it grows. In the distance, mountains.

Black and white photo with a checker pattern, the top left and bottom right of the frame are shadowed but the top left is tree branches and leaves and the bottom right are rocks. The top right and bottom left are mostly sky, divided by the trunk of the tree.

Black and white photo of a tree with windswept limbs and dappled with sunlight and shadow as is grows from craggy rocks, the sky and mountains in the background. The picture has very smooth tones and almost no grain.

December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

winning #believeinfilm

Canon IVSB, Kentmere 200, Rocky Mountain National Park.

A vertical photo of a tree growing in a craggy outcropping, in the distance, mountains, in the fore this tree and some dramatic rocks. Also the photographer’s index finger is in the top left corner of the frame. What a dork.

December 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

my buddy Josh is at once hot and too cool for school - Pen F Delta 400

black and white diptych of a man with a mustache and mirrored shades and a fringed neckerchief - in one photo he’s looking through the shades and in the other he’s holding the shades up with his left hand and is looking through his corrective glasses and the viewer can see his sling bag

December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

When that Charmera hits tho.

A high contrast image where a man holding a phone gestures but his finger is pointing at the datestamp on the photo.

December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

two rolls of Kentmere 200 are pictures

two strips of developed 35mm film hanging in some plastic sheeting

December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

www.paulettetavormina.com/books-essays

I love the photos in this book.

The Juan Sanchez Cotan piece Tavormina references is discussed in Norman Bryson’s work Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting.

photo of a page in a book, the photo in the book is a painted frame holding a pear, a cabbage, a sliced pink melon, and a cucumber. the pear & cabbage are suspended by string, the fruits plot a decay curve. the photo is titled “Cabbage and Melon, After J.S.C. 2010”

December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

is this meme where the labels are

IS THIS
CLAY STOPPERS
OF HOUSEHOLD VESSELS
NEOLITHIC METADATA?

November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

saving bottlecaps a la fallout? check it out in David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything (pg 423)

The best example of such a site is Tell Sabi Abyad, investigated by a team of Dutch archaeologists working in Syria's Balikh valley in the province of Raqga. Around 8,000 years ago (c.6200 Bc), in what was prehistoric Mesopotamia, a one-hectare village was destroyed there by fire, baking its mud walls and many of their clay contents, thus preserving them. While obviously a very bad bit of luck for the inhabitants, it was a stroke of brilliant luck for future researchers, since it has left us a unique insight into the organization of a Late Neolithic community, comprising perhaps around 150 individuals. What the excavators discovered is that not only did the inhabitants of this village erect central storage facilities, including granaries and warehouses; they also employed administrative devices of some complexity to keep track of what was in them. These devices included economic archives, which were miniature precursors to the temple archives at Uruk and other later Mesopotamian cities.
These were not written archives: writing, as such, would not appear for another 3,000 years. What did exist were geometric tokens made of clay, of a sort that appear to have been used in many similar Neolithic villages, most likely to keep track of the allocation of particular resources. U8 At Tell Sabi Abyad, miniature seals bearing engraved designs were used alongside them to stamp and mark the clay stoppers of household vessels with identifying signs. Perhaps most remarkably, the stoppers themselves, once removed from the vessels, were kept and archived in a special building
- an office or bureau of sorts - near the centre of the village for later reference. 2 Ever since these discoveries were reported in the 1990s, archaeologists have been debating in whose interests and for what purpose such 'village bureaucracies' functioned.

November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

I loved playing New Vegas. @behindthebluemotel.com loves me and brought me some Sunset Sarsparilla today.

selfie of a bearded guy drinking from a bottle of Jones Soda which has a yellow and maroon label for Sunset Sarsparilla

November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

Visiting state edition:

Moose
Elk
Turkey
Grizzly Bear
Bison

bison crossing the lane, van the background

a grizzly bear sits looking over an elk carcass

November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

also made vegan, gluten free cornbread- the chia/garbanzo egg replacement isn’t as good as applesauce but it’ll do. Used oat flour instead of gf all purpose.

an iron skillet with cornbread in it, wavy and cracked with a small hole poked in it

November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

inducting poisoned assassin Kate into Doomed Blorbo posting because well ::gestures::

Mary Elizabeth Winstead battered and bloody in a smiling tee holding pistols akimbo

November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

You've just died.
The 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

A man with a mustache and small earring in a very close black and white portrait, like his crown and chin are out of frame

November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

Folks from round the office - Voigtlander 25mm f.95 Olympus OM-1

A bearded man in a hat puts his chin on his fists.

A man in glasses and a knit hat smiles and looks offscreen

A bald man with a mustache gives some eyebrow to the camera in a tight portrait

November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

when the charmera hits it hits

yellow and white high contrast pixel mode where a man in glasses in the right of frame is seen from
below

November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Niiiick Henry

@friction.bsky.social

Mox got me on Creeper with 2020’s Sex, Death & the Infinite Void (esp track Four Years Ago) but this year’s Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death keeps rocking my shit.

Campy rock blather or sublime horny lyrics??

Gtfo there’s saxophone and finger snapping.