Aden Albert

@adenalbertcreative.com

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I’m Aden, a photographer and writer based in South Carolina. he/him Site: https://adenalbertcreative.com Fiction: https://theneon.church or @theneon.church

A walkway over sea oat-filled dunes leading to white sand beaches and an emerald azure sea beneath a blue cloud strewn sky
Two buttons meme, the first of which is “concession speech,” the second is “flounce,” with a gloved finger hovering uncertainly between the two. Except we live in the future and we know they’re picking flounce. Of course they are.
Coffee ice cream in a machine being churned
Screenshot of spam email whose contact block reads This is an automated message. Please do not reply to this email. Company name, 123 Business Ave, Suite 100, New York NY 10001
The album cover for “Guidance,” by Russian Circles
A sign in front of a chained-off parking space says NO BACKING IN TO PARKING SPACES. An office chair sits against the back of the parking space, leaning against the wall, backed in.
a glance at tree leaves through three window panes; above the pane on the left, an acoustic tile reflects the sunlight in a sculpted haze
Trees seen through a window hazed by diaphanous reflections, bracketed by dark shadows. A railing bisects the window.
An empty street with dark trees and a shadowed, poorly-maintained ONE WAY sign, at the right side of the frame, pointing to the left.
The silhouette of a heron against waves on a river
A potted plant on the edge of a stage in a plastic bag, draped in shadow, cement block wall behind it
A man looks sourly at his own reflection, pressing his hand to the mirror. The caption reads DID I JUST ARGUE A JOKE? PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATION SERIES
A man rests on a bench, looking down at his phone in his hands, as the sun sets behind the buildings on an empty street.
Lens flare highlights the sun peeking between the silhouette of an angular building and the frame of a large window facade in a building looking out over trees and a city skyline. To the right a light fixture holds a bulb, dim, yellower than the white sunlight
The Reedy River in downtown Greenville, SC. The locks are seen beneath a pedestrian bridge, which partially obscure buikdings under a featureless sky
Trees in front of a city sidewalk, with an overhang in the middleground, and a series of windows on a parallel building that meet with a perpendicular series of windows on another building
sunset, with trees, clouds, transmission tower, and a traffic light
an almost unbelievably inane new york times article attempting to extrapolate trump buying shoes for everyone to a more general extrapolation that all men buy shoes that are too big. which, no. we don't. we buy shoes like humans buy shoes, which is to say, the size of our feet.
Original NES box art from Mega Man 3
Clear tape over a wood panel with intersecting diagonals drawn on them to find the center of a rectangle. A small pin nail is hammered into the point of intersection
A city street, a marquee lined with bulbs, a telephone pole, an suv, a cloudy sky, blurred from camera motion
Sad little wads of dried up paint, more akin to polymer clay than anything else
A young boy, eye to the viewfinder, takes a picture of a pink Pokémon that isn’t Clefairy but I can’t remember which it really is right now.
A small church at dusk, a telephone pole in the foreground, its lamp lit, black wires crossing the darkening sky. The church beckons with a light at its front doors and swallowing blackness around the bottom of the frame.
Traffic cones wrapped together in caution tape on the sidewalk, clustered like the towers of the Sagrada Família
Black mesh netting in front of a staircase. A sign hangs from the netting saying STAIRWAY with an arrow pointing left and right
Witchlings, by Claribel A. Ortega
Hands with nails painted “chrome zone” color by a brand I don’t recognize
A dyed yellow t-shirt with a stylized Pikachu face, now with nose and ears
Yellow dyed t-shirt Pikachu with red cheeks and mouth but no other features
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
A tobacceria lit in the imposing darkness. A single streetlight stands above it, its reflection blown out in specularity. The store looks small, and far away, like an island in the night, lost and becoming more lost with every moment.
The Anakin/Padme four square meme. Anakin’s holding a box of Lego, and he says I bought Lego. Padme says for our son’s birthday, right? It’s a closeup of Anakin’s face and the Lego box with no caption, then a closeup of Padme looking worried, repeating, For our son’s birthday, right?
Bluesky user: Why do people post links to pay walled articles? Waste of everyone’s time. Quote it, fine, but don’t bother with a link. Nilay Patel: I am the editor in chief so
A black and white photograph coming out of an Epson printer
A black weighted cylinder printed with GOODBYE hangs over an overexposed featureless expanse of daylight. You can just make out the line of a street lamp pointing up.
Black and white image of cup full of coffee and milk making clouds
Black and white image of abstract patterns of gray and white and voids, like a gas giant, which is actually a dollop of whole milk poured into a black cup of coffee before being stirred
Am I arguing with a joke? Text overload on a man looking solemnly at his reflection. At the bottom, a transparent banner with “Part of a a Bluesky educational series” and the blue butterfly logo. Tineye was no help finding the source because it’s a modified stock photo.
Michael Rapaport, an actor who in 2001 appeared in Dr Doolittle 2 and now hosts a podcast, has been a frequent critic of Mamdani.
Golden sunlight shining into the windshield of a car, trees silhouetted, winter sky barely visible
CHOTINER "Triumph of the Will" is very controversial, but you can't deny that as a piece of filmmaking it is a very impressive achievement. You can like something without agreeing with its politics. SPINOTTI Yes, probably so. I might've liked if the film could have been a little more about her activities and achievements, which are described in the end titles. But, also,
Red berries covered in fresh snow on a branch among evergreen leaves
The Nintendo Entertainment System with two controllers and the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge pack-in, but no light gun, thus dooming the owner to a duckless life of humiliation at the mitts of that snickering dog
a little frog guy in a tuxedo and phantom mask with long legs and knobby knees and a contemplative, sad expression on his frog face and I love him so much
A blue plastic chair on the side of the road, dwarfed by wild bushes and shrubs, its back caked in mud, under a gray sky
A sad man looks in a mirror with the caption “AM I ARGUING WITH A JOKE?” and a subhed in a dark gray band and the Bluesky icon that says “Part of a Bluesky educational series”
A riot of pink azalea blooms, two close and in focus, the others fading into blurs and smears of irresolvable color
A note with a child’s handwriting says “Jeff isn’t a real person.” The note is on a counter. The shadow of a person’s legs are next to the counter.
A dog with a butt for a face
A post saying “you can’t ironically eat a sandwich. The sandwich still winds up inside you.” Immediately above a post saying “what fresh hell is this” advertising the “pineapple mcspicy”
Spam emails clearly run through a thesaurus because they say, in order, "Friend Shared You," "Pal Shared You," "Amigo Tagged You," and my favorite, "Crew Circulated You"
A photograph of a bright moon surrounded by clouds in four swirling arms stretching outward, like impressionist paint daubs
A young boy in Halloween costume dressed as Dash, from the Incredibles. He looks like he could run forever, as fast as the wind.
A channel of broken bricks in a vertical wall. The irregularity of the break looks like the bed of a canyon, or a gorge, or the levels on an equalizer, or a sine wave, or nothing, because there is no pattern.
a sewer grate seen from above with numerous stones stuck in the ribs
An orange X-Acto knife above a pencil drawing of that same X-Acto knife
Temu United States Clearance Everything must go!