I****gram Archive — Ralph Brandi (@thereisnocat)

The 20 lessons about Ukraine take about nine hours to listen to. I found it really worthwhile. All proceeds from the sales of the book go to humanitarian aid for Ukraine. You can find more information about the audiobook, including several places to buy it, at https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/719612/on-tyranny-expanded-audio-edition/ .

Also, if you have access to the New York Times, Snyder has an article about a new word that came out of the war, a portmanteau of "Russian" and "fascist" that he goes into a very in-depth explanation of how it came to be. The word is rendered as "рашизм" in Ukrainian. I've seen it used in English spelled "rashist", but Snyder makes the case that it should be transliterated "ruscist". It's a fascinating look at how a new word comes into being with interplay between three different languages. Worth reading if you can get past the firewall at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html

One other suggestion, if you're interested in the history of Ukraine, Serhii Plokhy's book "The Gates of Europe" is worth reading. It's half the length of the standard histories by Orest Subtelny and Paul Robert Magocsi (and less than a quarter the price) but covers the same material, and it's a good read. It will help you understand some of the things Snyder mentions, like the baptism a thousand years ago.

Thank you, everyone, for the kind comments on my series this week. If you liked what I did, after giving to whatever charities I linked to that you find appropriate, you might be interested in a zine I put out earlier this year. It's all Polaroid, and specifically all Polaroid 100 Chocolate, about life on the Jersey Shore when all the tourists have gone home. The zine grew out of my posts for the autumn Polaroid Week last year. You can find information about the zine on my site at https://www.thereisnocat.com/showme1006.html .

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Fri Apr 29 2022

Closing out Spring Polaroid week with a pair of matched M1900 6-inch guns from Battery Gunnison on Sandy Hook. Again, obsolete, but a reminder that Ukraine needs heavy weapons. They're starting to get them, finally. At some point, a victorious Ukraine will be able to place their guns in a park as a monument too.

Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale. He writes popular history books about the history of Eastern Europe. I've read several. They're very good.

In 2017, he wrote a short book called "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century". He describes it as a pamphlet, kind of a throwback to the days of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". In it he suggests ways for everyday people to fight back against tyranny, things like "Don't Obey in Advance". Last week, he released an updated version of the book with 20 new lessons specifically about Ukraine. It's only available in audiobook format. In it, he attempts to place the war in Ukraine into historical perspective. He makes the case that Putin's case is based on a baptism from a thousand years ago and that there was significant divergence in the futures of Rus (Ukraine) and Muscovy (Russia). He posits several types of politics: the politics of time (nostalgia), the politics of inevitability (this is bound to happen), the politics of eternity (this is how things always were and will always be), the politics of catastrophe, and the politics of possibility. Russia is at war with Ukraine, but really Russia is at war with democracy. This war will decide the outlines of the 21st century; will this century be dominated by autocrats or democrats? There's also a convincing case made that the war is the fallout of the failure of empires, the failure of the nation state, and that the EU represents a new alternative to empire that Russia finds threatening. It's no coincidence that the 2014 invasion started right after the Revolution of Dignity where Ukrainians rose up to insist on their right to join the EU. (continued in next post).

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Fri Apr 29 2022

On The Beach 2

A pack of Polaroid pack film contains 10 shots. I had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue. Polaroid Week lasts six days, two shots a day, for a total of 12 shots per person. I had a hole of one day/two shots. But I found an unused box of New55 Color in my stash. New55 Color had this thing where it reproduces blues well, but there's a border around the edge of most shots that's yellow. Blue and yellow....

I shot this at Marineland in Florida with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic. Ukraine has a lengthy coastline on the Black Sea. Russia wants to control that coastline and make Ukraine a landlocked country, unable to export goods by sea without dealing with Russia. One of the ways they do that is with mines. There are mines floating freely in the Black Sea set loose by the Orcs. On land, retreating Orcs also set boobytraps on corpses of people they killed and on toys likely to be picked up by children. The Ukrainian Deminers Association cleans up these mines. You can support their efforts at https://www.uda.org.ua/en/

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Thu Apr 28 2022

On The Beach 1

A pack of Polaroid pack film contains 10 shots. I had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue. Polaroid Week lasts six days, two shots a day, for a total of 12 shots per person. I had a hole of one day/two shots. But I found an unused box of New55 Color in my stash. New55 Color had this thing where it reproduces blues well, but there's a border around the edge of most shots that's yellow. Blue and yellow....

I shot this at Marineland in Florida with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic. Ukraine has a lengthy coastline on the Black Sea. Russia wants to control that coastline and make Ukraine a landlocked country, unable to export goods by sea without dealing with Russia. One of the ways they do that is with mines. There are mines floating freely in the Black Sea set loose by the Orcs. On land, retreating Orcs also set boobytraps on corpses of people they killed and on toys likely to be picked up by children. The Ukrainian Deminers Association cleans up these mines. You can support their efforts at https://www.uda.org.ua/en/

#PolaroidWeek #PolaroidWeek2022 #RoidWeek #RoidWeek2022 #New55 #New55Color #SpeedGraphic #FIlm #FilmPhotography #AllThroughALensPodcast #HeyFSC #fscpolaroid

Thu Apr 28 2022

Waves of Grain

Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world. Their soil is rich and dark. They grow wheat and export it widely. I think I saw that they grow something like 20% of the wheat in the world. The country is filled with scenes not a million miles away from this. The war is making this difficult and may result in hunger and famine in countries very distant from Ukraine.

World Central Kitchen travels to crisis zones and feeds the hungry. Chef Jose Andres uses his fame to draw attention to the needs of the needy. You may have seen a recent video by WCK's CEO Nate Mook about their kitchen in Kharkiv getting hit by a Russian missile. That's how close to the front lines they get. You can support their work at https://wck.org

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Wed Apr 27 2022

Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself

These are fishing boats, not warships. I couldn't get close enough to the warships docked at nearby Earle Naval Weapons Station. So these will have to stand in for the Missile Cruiser Moskva that attacked Zmiinyi (Snake) Island. The defenders of Snake Island responded appropriately when asked to surrender.

Ukraine famously followed up this suggestion with a cruise missile attack to ensure that the Russian Warship did indeed go fuck itself right to the bottom of the Black Sea.

You can buy a postage stamp commemorating the bravery of the guardians of Snake Island at the Ukrposhta philately site at http://pm.ukrposhta.ua/nishop.php . Alternately, you can go to Volstamp's English language site at https://volstamp.in.ua/en and spend way more (like, waaaay more) but actually understand the purchasing process.

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Wed Apr 27 2022

Lighthouse

This is the lighthouse on Sandy Hook. Lighthouses are erected to protect sailors.

Similarly, Come Back Alive is a charity focused on protecting members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They provide defensive equipment and training to members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to ensure that they can survive the assault by Russia. They also support medical assistance and rehabilitation for those soldiers wounded in war. You can find Come Back Alive at https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/

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Tue Apr 26 2022

Cannon

This cannon on Sandy Hook was once part of the defenses of Fort Hancock, the Coast Guard base at the northern tip of Sandy Hook. Fort Hancock was set up to defend New York Harbor. Like us, Ukraine has a coast to defend. Not with a weapon like this, though, the likes of which probably last saw Ukraine in the Crimean War.

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Tue Apr 26 2022

Missile No. 2

Russia has been at war with Ukraine for eight years. We just started paying attention two months ago.

Russia has been at war with the entire west for about that long as well. We still haven't noticed. Their weapons are non-conventional. They're bots on Twitter and hackers who phish political operatives. Дональд Трамп was a guided missile aimed directly at the fissures in US society. Brexit was a guided missile aimed directly at the fissures in UK society. Their purpose was to destroy NATO and the EU, and they've made big strides in that direction. It will take us decades to repair the damage caused by those missiles.

It's time to return the favor.

I am a pacifist by and large, and a small d democrat. I don't like weapons. But when a totalitarian fascist dictatorship attacks you, you have to fight back. When said dictatorship announces that its aim is to erase an entire nationality from the map, that's genocide. There is no pacifist solution to genocide, no compromise position. "Never again" we said after the Holocaust. And after Cambodia. And after Rwanda. And after Darfur, Sudan. And after the Rohingya in Myanmar. Right now, the battlefield is in Ukraine, but this is the World's war. Ukraine needs heavy weaponry; tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile defense systems, and missiles. Ukraine is starting to get some of what they need, but they need more. You can contact your representatives and ask them to support increased military aid to Ukraine. Also, the National Bank of Ukraine has set up a special account that you can send money to to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. You can find that at https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

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Mon Apr 25 2022

Missile No. 1

Ukraine needs missiles.

Russia is using missiles on Ukrainian cities. Last weekend, Odesa was hit with a missile attack that killed a 3 month old baby. Russia is trying to erase Ukraine from the world, and it is using missiles to do it. Russian missiles being used last weekend, which was Orthodox Easter, had the words "Christ is Risen" written on them. Ukraine needs to fight back. They need missile defense systems. They also need missiles to attack the Orcs invading their country. It was a Ukrainian missile that took down the Moskva.

This is a Nike missile at Sandy Hook National Recreation Area. Sandy Hook and the surrounding area in Monmouth County, New Jersey, was home to many of these missiles. They are obsolete and have all been decommissioned.

With the shift from the north to the east, the geography of the battle has changed. The tactics that worked brilliantly in the Battle of Kyiv won't work in the Battle of Donbas. Ukraine needs heavy weaponry; tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile defense systems, and missiles. Ukraine is starting to get some of what they need, but they need more. You can contact your representatives and ask them to support increased military aid to Ukraine. Also, the National Bank of Ukraine has set up a special account that you can send money to to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. You can find that at https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

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Mon Apr 25 2022

Zbruch Idol

The Zbruch River formed the boundary between the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire up to the end of World War I. The river changed course slightly at one point, and in the place where the river had departed, in 1848 they found a statue that is now known as the Zbruch Idol. This happened just outside of Личківці (Lychkivtsi), a small village in Ternopil oblast that just happens to be where my grandmother was born. Last year, I bought this wooden carving that replicates the idol, the original of which is at a museum in Rzeszow, Poland.

The most commonly held theory is that the idol represents Sviatovid, a pre-Christian pagan Slavic god of abundance and war. Ukraine has an abundance of good land and wheat, and now they have war, so it seemed appropriate to show this picture of him.

I had run out of Polaroid Blue by the time I took this (actually, I had one shot left, but it came out waaaay underexposed), so the top here is shot with One Instant Color film, which has a blue cast.

Ukraine needs help. Razom for Ukraine is a reputable charity that started when Ukrainian-Americans wanted to help Ukraine during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. They send humanitarian aid to Ukraine, including medicine, hospital supplies, and communications equipment. You can find them at https://razomforukraine.org/ .

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Sun Apr 24 2022

Flag

When I look at my ancestry, I'm a lot of things, but of the things I am, the thing I am the most is Ukrainian. My grandmother was born there. My grandfather's father was ethnically Ukrainian from an area that's now Poland. We were very close to that side of the family when I was growing up.

My photography has felt trivial lately. I have been obsessed with the war. So when it came time for Polaroid Week, I wanted to do something different. First I tried shooting things that were blue and yellow (the colors of Ukraine's flag). Some cookies I bought. The tryzub sticker on my car. Old boxes of Polaroid film (the Paul Giambarba boxes of 669 had a yellow-ish wrapper). Those photos didn't work.

Then I remembered that Polaroid had yellow film. And blue film.

If you go to the Polaroid site, they're out of the Yellow 600 film. But it was made recently enough that places like B&H still had some. So I got some. The integral Blue 600 film hasn't been made in a few years. But in my stash, I still had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue pack film.

This is what I did with one underexposed shot from that pack of Blue that I shot with my Polaroid 195 Land Camera. I shot a pure white background with my SLR 680 and paired it with the nearly solid shot of Blue, and you get a Ukrainian flag from that.

Ukraine needs help. Razom for Ukraine is a reputable charity that started when Ukrainian-Americans wanted to help Ukraine during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. They send humanitarian aid to Ukraine, including medicine, hospital supplies, and communications equipment. You can find them at https://razomforukraine.org/ .

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Sun Apr 24 2022

This book by @katemillerwilson came in the mail an hour ago and now I don’t know how I can work the rest of the day. Absolutely breathtaking. The combination of Kate’s photos and Eian’s insights just hit me like a hammer. If you don’t have this, you should. Seeing these photos on print has so much more impact than seeing them on the tiny screen of my phone. The link to purchase is in her profile. Go.

Mon Feb 14 2022

I made a zine! Offseason Issue 1 is photos of the Jersey Shore after all the Bennies and Shoobies have gone home. This issue is all Polaroid shots, taken over the years on Polaroid Chocolate film. $8 postpaid in the IS, $10 postpaid anywhere else. Link to my Etsy shop in my profile. #polaroid #zine #film #chocolate #filmphotography

Sat Jan 22 2022

Beach

So this is weird. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a pack of #Polaroid photos I took a few years back on Chocolate film and never scanned. I scan everything. But these don’t appear on my hard drive. None of them have been posted.

This is the beach outside a hotel on Long Beach Island. In the beforetimes, every November I would get together with friends and spend a week on LBI trying to hear AM radio stations from across the ocean. My guess is that I took this with my second Land 250 around 2015. My current chocolate film shots are a lot lighter than this, very little contrast. This is what it originally looked like. I miss it. #polaroidweek2021 #film #filmphotography #heyfsc #fscpolaroid #allthroughalenspodcast

Tue Oct 26 2021

Belford Harbor

I shot my last pack of Polaroid 100 Chocolate in August. Figured I better get to it before it went bad. Out of the pack of 10, I got 9.5 photos.

A week after shooting it, I saw packs for sale on *Bay for $1200. Oh well, there goes my fortune….

(Breaking my boycott of Instagram for #PolaroidWeek. Find me over on glass.photo if you have an iOS device where I’ve been posting like crazy for the past couple of months, or on Flickr.)

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Mon Oct 25 2021

Vanessa

Breaking my boycott of Instagram to celebrate #polaroidweek (find me on glass.photo where I’ve been posting like crazy for the past couple of months).

My friend Vanessa makes tintypes, trading under the name @armadillotintype in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. About seven hours ago, we went to see her at Bell Works in Holmdel to get a tintype made of my wife (25 years ago, when this was still Bell Labs, my wife and I both worked in this amazing building). I brought my #polaroid 195 loaded with my next-to-last roll of Polaroid #sepia 1500 #film and shot this portrait of the artist with her tools. Happy #roidweek ! #roidweek2021 #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast

Sun Oct 24 2021

I finally got an invitation to join Glass, glass.photo/thereisnocat. If you’re there too, feel free to follow me if you’re so inclined.

Wed Aug 11 2021

Tree

I shot this tree in front of our house this morning because it’s summer and it’s Friday and it’s my birthday so I took the day off and wanted to do something with it. Shot on my #speedgraphic using a @kodak #aeroektar178mm lens wide open and my new #chromagraphica #4x5 #wetplatecollodion film holder that arrived a couple of days ago. I shot three photos, and this was probably the most technically correct. I wanted to work on my collodion pouring technique since my first plates had so many problems. This was my second attempt at this shot this morning; the first had a developer island. So I bumped up the amount of developer I was pouring on the plate from 15ml to 20ml and that seems to have solved that issue. #allthroughalenspodcast #largeformat #wetplate #tintype #filmphotography

Fri Jul 30 2021

Another suburban scene caught on self-perforated Agfa Aviphot ASP 400 S 35mm film, placed in a #fakmatic adapter used in a @kodak #instamatic500 #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast #126film #instamatic

Sun Jul 25 2021

Hoops

A couple of years ago, @ifleming wrote an article for Emulsive about using a 35mm film splicer to perforate unperforated 35mm film and use it in 126 Instamatic cameras. I have now replicated this. Shot this with my @kodak Instamatic 500 on Agfa Aviphot ASP 400S sourced from @macodirect in Germany. I used a #fakmatic adapter rather than a repurposed original 126 cartridge this time. #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #allthroughalenspodcast

Sat Jul 24 2021

Laura

While I had everything set up, I couldn’t resist making a second tintype this weekend. This one misses the veiling from the first, but makes up for it with both developer island *and* developer burns. I have to say I love the roughly heart-shaped perfectly place island, though. #tintype #tintypephotography #wetplatecollodion #largeformat #speedgraphic #aeroektar

Tue Jul 06 2021

Baseball

This is the first #tintype I shot at home and boy, is there a lot wrong with it. Oysters, developer islands, maybe some veiling. I’m definitely out of practice on my collodion pouring technique, too.

Couldn’t be happier….

#speedgraphic #wetplatecollodion #largeformat #aeroektar #allthroughalenspodcast

Mon Jul 05 2021

I am a patriot

On this Independence Day, I feel like we need to take back the word “patriot” from the people who claim it in the name of white supremacy. America is unique. We are based not on the idea that we were born here and this land is ours by virtue of that fact, that our blood and this soil are tied together by millennia of history, but rather by an idea, a radical, inspiring idea, that all men are created equal. You don’t have to be born here to be truly American. You can be American by coming here and dedicating yourself to proving that idea true. We have never truly lived up to that idea, but we try. It’s a constant struggle against those who try to apply the myth of blood and soil to our country. But almost all of us are the product of other blood and other soil. We are all immigrants to this land, whether that was last week, two generations ago, 400 years ago on ships (in chains or not), or via land bridge before recorded history. It’s that idea that ties us together as a nation. That’s special. That’s unique. That’s worth fighting for. That’s why I’m a patriotic American. That idea, that all men are created equal.

This is another shot on 90 year old film. Blah blah blah.

Sun Jul 04 2021

Horn

I have no idea what this is used for. It’s outside Bahr’s Seafood Restaurant in Highlands, NJ.

Another shot from my #contaxiiia on Eastman No. 10 shot at EI 0.3, expired in March, 1931. #fossilizedfilm #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast

Sat Jul 03 2021

Barrio Costero

More #fossilizedfilm from the #contaxiiia in Asbury Park. Eastman No. 10, expired in 1931, making it more than 90 years old. #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #allthroughalenspodcast

Fri Jul 02 2021

Telephone Building

507 Bangs in Asbury Park. Another shot from my #contaxiiia on 90+ year old Eastman No. 10 film that expired in 1931. #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #allthroughalenspodcast

Wed Jun 30 2021

Spray

Water park on the boardwalk in Asbury Park. Shot with my #contaxiiia on Eastman No. 10 that expired in 1931 (90+ years old). #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast #staybrokeshootfilm #expiredfilm #fossilizedfilm

Mon Jun 28 2021

Dino

Another shot on Eastman No. 10, expired in 1931, making the film I shot this on over 90 years old. Older than The Flintstones, younger than 🦕s. This ride is outside the pinball museum on the Asbury Park boardwalk. #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #fossilizedfilm

Sun Jun 27 2021

Carousel

Another shot from the #contaxiiia on Eastman No. 10, expired in 1931 (90+ years old). #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast #staybrokeshootfilm #expiredfilm

Sat Jun 26 2021

Empress Hotel

Shot in Asbury Park with my #contaxiiia on @kodak Eastman No. 10 #film that expired in March, 1931 (yes, the film expired more than 90 years ago). Developed in #hc110, 45 ml of syrup to 450 ml of water, at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) for 9 minutes. 1/25 seconds at f/1.5. #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #allthroughalenspodcast #fossilizedfilm

Fri Jun 25 2021

Sadly, we’d already eaten before stumbling onto this place on the Wildwood boardwalk. Swipe to see a close-up of the chalkboard. #contaxiii #polypanf #rodinal #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast #staybrokeshootfilm

Wed Jun 23 2021

Roller Coaster

Most of the rides on the Wildwood boardwalk are on piers like this. #film #filmphotography #filmphoto #staybrokeshootfilm #contaxiii #polypanf50 #rodinal

Thu Jun 17 2021

COVID-19 Showdown

This arcade on the boardwalk in Wildwood has adapted to the current situation. #contaxiii #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmstaybroke #wildwood #wildwoodnj #allthroughalenspodcast

Wed Jun 16 2021

Motels

Instagram doesn’t really lend itself to this sort of thing, so swipe to see this closer. This is another example of my #contaxiii crashing photos into each other to interesting effect. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #kodak2238 #rodinal #wildwoodnj #wildwood #allthroughalenspodcast

Mon Jun 14 2021

Doo-Wop Wawa. Another example of overlapping photos from my #contaxiii on #kodak2238. When Wawa wanted to build in Wildwood, they went before the zoning board and were told that their usual cookie cutter store wouldn’t cut it and they should attempt to fit in with the vernacular Doo-Wop architecture that defines the city. So they went away and came back with this. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #allthroughalenspodcast #rodinal

Wed Jun 09 2021

Laura with starfish

Another pair of overlapping photos from my #contaxiii on our recent vacation in Cape May. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #rodinal #kodak2238 #allthroughalenspodcast

Tue Jun 08 2021

Lights at the beach

I took my #contaxiii when we were on vacation recently in Cape May. One of the rolls I shot was a too-tightly-wound roll of #kodak2238. I wound up with a whole roll of overlapping photos. Some of them didn’t suck. This is the view from the back porch at Mermaids, a restaurant on the beach where we had breakfast one morning. #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #filmisnotdead #allthroughalenspodcast

Mon Jun 07 2021

Bad Choices Make Good Stories.

I wonder what the story is here. The Wildwood boardwalk is replete with opportunities to make bad choices.

Shot with my pre-war #contaxiii on 60 year old Adox #kb14 at box speed and (poorly) developed in #rodinal. #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #fossilizedfilm #allthroughalenspodcast

Sun Jun 06 2021

Laura voting about four weeks ago. Shot on Plus-X with my Contax III. Thanks, @govmurphy for making it so easy to vote during the pandemic. We should move to #handmarkedpaperballots for every election from here on out. #film #filmphotography #allthroughalenspodcast #election2020 #vote

Tue Nov 03 2020