Brian Beker
@brianbeker.bsky.social
Old school street photography. All photos ©me unless repost or noted. Film in permanent collection MoMA/NY. Signal: Dispatch.02 brianbeker.com
Another terrific thread from Edith Mirante, author (most recently) of the beautiful collection of essays, Where the Mithuns Are #books
Edith Mirante@edithmirante.bsky.social · last wk.1. This History Thread is about the roads of Burma (Myanmar). In contrast to rivers & railways (subjects of previous threads) these transport corridors have often been lower priority. Currently roads are scenes of coup regime convoys & anti-coup ambushes. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Just finished this collection of essays by @edithmirante.bsky.social. It’s stunning. The title Mithuns are a friendly, white-socked cattle of south Asia, and Edith loves them. The intro essay is about meeting them, but, characteristically, Edith barely mentions her own drone-running for rebels… 1/4
Pokey Beker Jr., Jr. running through the high grass in Vermont today. M6/50SM, TMY #dogs #photography
The Qatari bribe jet should be confiscated by a future admin. But if it’s not, a second-tier way to shove a spike up trump’s ass is simply to invalidate one little piece of paper. It’s called an Airworthiness Certificate and can be withdrawn by the FAA administrator. Grounding by stroke of a pen.1/2
trump literally sold a pass for Taylor Farms to allow human shit in lettuce for a million bucks, but MAHA amirite
If the next Dem president doesn’t outright confiscate the bribe jet, all that has to be done is for the next FAA administrator to cancel its airworthiness certificate, thereby turning it into a paperweight with the stroke of a pen. trump’s other plane could also stand some much closer inspection.
Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social · 2w agoTalk about a close one. On a cosmic time scale I came THIS close to getting whacked by a meteor. Whew!
Horror movie here in the Vermont woods. I started the lawnmower and immediately got swarmed by a bunch of yellow and black stripey things. A few stung the bejeezus out of me. I think it’s a bald-faced hornet nest. All I can say is they started this war.
Every time someone is in the chair for a Senate confirmation hearing and they refuse to answer on the grounds that they won’t discuss a hypothetical the response should be, “Then why are you here? Your confirmation is hypothetical, too.”
Don’t make me laugh. Anyone who thinks Cornyn, after a Senate career featuring a lengthy stint as a magat whore, will go against the grain on this, despite his trump-induced retirement, is suffering from delusions. This nom goes to the floor.
I was walking my dog in Eufala, Alabama one day about ten years ago and took this photo on an iPhone. I do not remember how I got this effect other than by just editing and then running the shot through more of the same edits after saves. Looks like it could have been on a Confederate dollar.
Another one of my thousands of negatives and slides that were doomed in flooding. This is a river in Ladakh, not sure where. #filmphotography
About 2/3 of my 40-year photo archive was destroyed in flooding a few years ago. Observation for #filmphotography folks: negatives in plastic sleeves were ruined; negs in glassine were all okay. Most of the wrecks were worse than this. Mold loves emulsion. Nikon F, 50H, Agfa slides #photography
If a Dem wins in ‘28 trump should be arrested at 12:01 on January 20. If a Dem wins and doesn’t, that’s all, folks. Corruption, theft of public money, treason, election rigging… not as if there aren’t grounds.
A big, white socked cow-looking bovine who wanders around during the day in war torn Burma and comes home to the humans in the evening for a salt nightcap. Posting this one because I love Edith’s photo but scroll up to the top of the thread.
Edith Mirante@edithmirante.bsky.social · last mo.14. It's unknown how many mithuns remain in Chin St., as 40,000+ refugees had fled from Chin State to neighboring NE India's Mizoram by 2022. Some refugees brought their animals with them, others had to abandon/release livestock in a landscape of landmines & other war dangers.
Portrait of a Burmese anti-fascist student who, with thousands of others, escaped military government street massacres in 1988 to join Karen rebel forces to take up arms against the oppressor. Nikon F2, severely reticulated Tri-X #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #war #Burma
Look, at least he didn’t sign it on the deck of the USS Missouri.
@ilfordphoto.com provided me the best #filmphotography customer service ever. I bought a product that had a flaw, sent images to them, heard back the next AM, had a replacement immediately. Legendary film products from a great company. Thank you, Ilford. Been a fan for 50 years; even more so now.
Many years ago, this Indian civet walked out of the jungle, limped to where I stood, lay down beside me, and let me stroke her as she closed her eyes and died. It was an awful moment of strange magic. Nikon F, 50-H, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #wildlife
I have no clue what these chicks were doing lined up in front of someone's house 30 years ago, but it was in the Hollywood hills, so it could have been anything. M650SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography
Today is the release of the superb new novel The Fire Agent by my old buddy David Baerwald. No exaggeration: this book is a big (600+pp), original, epic masterpiece. Gorgeous writing! So delighted that my photo of Dave is in today’s NYT. MX-EVS and HP5 #TheFireAgent #photography #filmphotography
A TIbetan meditates at the foot of Boda stupa in Kathmandu, part of a lifetime practice that involves crossing the Himalaya in an unbroken series of prostrations from standing to kneeling to face down on the ground and back. M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #Tibet #Buddhism
A Royal Enfield Bullet on the outskirts of Dram, TIbet M6/50M, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #motorcycle
Seller of cures for any ailment M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #Nepal
Farmers and a calf on a cold dawn in south Nepal M6/50M, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #Nepal
