Michael Wriston
@mwriston.bsky.social
Social landscape and street portrait photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. www.michaelwriston.com Public record enthusiast and would-be journalist @projectsaltbox.com
Meanwhile, Miles Davis and raindrops while doing the dishes.
Loved this "review" of the Baltimore MetroLink system. So much promise, so little public funding, too many cars.
Why Baltimore Built America's Saddest Metro
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Baltimore Magazine's editors (unexpectedly) named Project Salt Box "Best Watchdog." Thank you to the readers, partners, and sources who make our work possible.
A military aviator performed an incredibly dangerous maneuver directly over a crowd of people, and this is the response from the top? Our country is beyond cooked.
Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3w agoReader, I checked and checked again, and this is Secretary Hegseth’s actual account
As a young person, I took this social landscape for granted. It was part of the boring milieu of a youth in farm country. I passed a hundred scenes like these on the drive to school.
Driving home from my father's house
The long way back to Baltimore
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I took my kids to the art museum and my five year old asked if he could use my phone to take a picture and this is what he wanted to photograph.
Very pleasantly surprised to see Flickr rolled out a new app interface this morning. Between that and the progress being made over at Foto, it’s a good time to be a photographer sharing work online.
I spoke with Lauren Gilger on KJZZ's The Show this morning about ICE's court case and the future of the detention warehouse in Surprise, AZ. Listen here.
Plans to turn Surprise warehouse into ICE detention facility — and other U.S. projects — on hold
Surprise residents who were angry about the federal government turning a local warehouse into an immigration detention center can take a sigh of relief this week.
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Ellman: You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires? Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had tbi, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?
Op Ed - Documenting abuses of power, and binding your fate to your neighbors’ while you do it, is the oldest patriotic work there is. Thank you to all who have put in the hard work of resisting injustice. We hope you are celebrating your well-earned victories as you prepare for the struggles ahead.
Op Ed: A moment of gratitude on this 4th of July
Project Salt Box on Legal AF with Adam Klasfeld
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The 4th of July. Reservoir Hill. Baltimore, MD. 2026.
A quick treatise on why you shouldn't rely on automatic improvements or AI "advice" to improve your craft.
On the 'ouroboros of better'
Or, I'll never achieve Full Soth.
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Ed Hardy and Von Dutch back from 2004 like
Undertaker Rises from Coffin in WWE Ring
ALT: Undertaker Rises from Coffin in WWE Ring
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i am scrolling through my inbox and questioning reality and coining new words
And hey, as always, if you just feel like looking at some cute art, I make super cute folk art and my portfolio is updated with recent work genuinesnips.art/portfolio/
dr. e. katherine@actualkatherine.bsky.social · last mo.In better news than baseball, I'll be taking art c0mmissi0ns in July genuinesnips.art/commissions/
As a chronic migraine enjoyer in the middle of will-they-won't-they rain storms, the Blue Angels airshows at Sail250 have been an excruciating 'pleasure' all weekend. I've never looked forward to Monday more.
Getting ready for the Baltimore Print Swap in August. Join me as I fiddle with exposure for 45 minutes on this long exposure from a farm road in Seven Valleys, PA.
Seven Valleys at Night - Processing a Long Exposure in darktable
YouTube video by Ten Minute Exposure
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I don't know wtf is happening in the world anymore but I hope you all are having fun.
This week! Come for the gorgeous neighborhood, stay for the queer history and labor history and Civil War stories and Civil Rights organizing and and and... or the other way around!
Full Story Baltimore@fullstorybaltimore.tours · 2mo agoAdded by request: a Radical Spirits in Reservoir Hill tour, Wednesday June 24, 7pm! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#r...
