Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 10:00:05 AM
@redcrew That’s why I mentioned it. They’re young. Other platforms may show up eventually.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 8:49:33 AM
@MerriMayhem @redcrew Same, down to joining in 2007. I love Flickr, and post there regularly, even daily, but at times it feels like a huge mansion that once housed a large family, but the kids have moved out, and the owners have aged and can’t manage the upkeep. Like Grey Gardens or something.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 8:47:09 AM
@MerriMayhem Honestly, me too. Haven’t been on one in decades. But they’re a spectacle and make for fun pictures. 🤪
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 8:05:39 AM
Roller Coaster Wildwood, New Jersey, 22 October 2021 #film #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Pentax67 #PlusX https://t.co/Al5JWuZkIF
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 7:57:43 AM
@redcrew Glass opened about three months ago (although it’s been in development for a couple of years before that). It’s iOS only at the moment, and costs money instead of attention, which I like because it aligns their incentives with our interests. It has a pretty minimal interface.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 7:42:41 AM
I largely have. I keep my account because there are people I have no other way to contact, but I’ve stopped posting there. https://twitter.com/MerriMayhem/status/1454772608025640961
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 7:32:05 AM
@AOHSUsometimesY Auto Assembly Line worker/Homemaker, Farmer/Farmer, Tailor/Seamstress, Police Officer/Waitress. I have all their names, and personally knew three of them. I’m sorry that you don’t and didn’t.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2021 at 7:26:42 AM
@leahmcelrath Next Year’s News Now
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2021 at 3:33:49 PM
@tryglass http://glass.photo/thereisnocat All analog, largely black and white, and mostly about life in a resort area (mostly the Jersey Shore)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2021 at 10:11:01 AM
I had the day off a week ago Friday, so I loaded the #Pentax67 up with a roll of @Kodak #PlusX that expired in June, 1980 and headed to #Wildwood, home of a lot of 1950s motels. The Caribbean is one of my favorites. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead https://t.co/QnsY9UECTg
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2021 at 4:04:53 PM
Ferris Wheel #Polaroid 195, Polaroid 100 Chocolate film, shot in 2016 in Neach Haven, NJ, on Long Beach Island. #PolaroidWeek #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead https://t.co/2TNPhiu4Rl
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2021 at 3:03:29 PM
1) Tip in cash 2) Don’t use services like DoorDash and Drizly https://twitter.com/chaddickerson/status/1454157086703734797
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2021 at 3:07:44 PM
RT @emptywheel: Magnifying Emotion Threats and Anger [Checks out]
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2021 at 8:38:06 AM
@MerriMayhem Thank you
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2021 at 5:17:05 AM
Beach This Way More #Polaroid chocolate film from the pack I found the other day. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #itjustsmellsfunny https://t.co/XK53DO6yh0
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2021 at 3:41:24 AM
@msjen @jaffa2 If you’re looking at the 14 inch, you should be fine. I’ve been using a 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro at work as a dev for the past few months and it’s been fine.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2021 at 9:24:57 AM
Fine. He didn’t pay for our roads, so his cars have no inherent right to use them. See how Tesla does when their cars can’t be used anywhere. Dipshit. https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1453148521142657025
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2021 at 9:14:31 AM
Belford Seafood Market #Polaroid 100 Chocolate shot in August. Compared to the ones I shot a few years ago, the color is largely the same, but the contrast has all but disappeared. #film #filmphotography https://t.co/4LHKjbnvwx
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2021 at 11:10:53 PM
@stribs Too late. I’ve had tinnitus for years. Used to it now. All those years of punk rock music in my headphones when I was on the radio gave me a head start.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2021 at 8:43:28 PM
Can lawyers call them “the people he killed”? Not loaded, accurate. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1453021349694279690
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2021 at 8:09:00 AM
Beach Yesterday I found some old photos I shot with Polaroid chocolate film and never scanned. I scan *everything*. Not sure how that happened. My current chocolate shots are a lot lighter than this and have a lot less contrast. I miss it. #film #filmphotography https://t.co/IAVW8JmmLe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 4:54:15 PM
This is what everyone said Muller was doing. Except that the impression that he was not doing what needed to be done turned out to be largely correct. Make noise. Don’t let posts like this make you sit on your hands. Cc: @sarahkendzior @AndreaChalupa https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1452646602137608194
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 2:38:51 PM
Facebook has a slavery problem: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/tech/facebook-instagram-app-store-ban-human-trafficking/index.html
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 2:31:51 PM
Shoal Harbor Fishery Part of the Belford Fishery Co-op complex I love to shoot. #Polaroid 195, Polaroid 100 Chocolate film, expired 2009. https://t.co/fEu79SZfco
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 12:26:43 PM
@swhiser Thanks, Sam. I’m thinking about it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 9:08:34 AM
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. There goes my fortune…. #RoidWeek #PolaroidWeek https://t.co/qM4r6d1Qpj
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2021 at 3:53:07 AM
@susankitchens Look up “dash cams”. They’re a thing.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2021 at 9:35:28 PM
@redcrew Hand coded HTML with vi. CSS and JavaScript didn’t exist back then. Neither did tables.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2021 at 12:42:04 AM
Vanessa My friend Vanessa makes tintypes. Yesterday, we went to see her at Bell Works in Holmdel to get a tintype made of my wife. I brought my #polaroid195 with a pack of Sepia 1500 film in it from 2008. I shot this portrait of the artist with her tools. #roidweek https://t.co/JkFCyr6FpE
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 21, 2021 at 10:41:58 PM
I worked on Joe Paterno’s TV show in the early 1980s when he was at his peak (championships in 1982 and 1986). He was a dick to us in the studio. No fucking manners. https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/1451374810756534273
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2021 at 5:32:31 AM
@maupuia Loved it. Especially when Jonathan Richman was on screen. He was the only person (other than John Cale) who talked about them as musicians rather than about the milieu they were in.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2021 at 11:54:01 PM
I lost faith in the Supreme Court 20 years ago with Bush v. Gore. They’re a bunch of hacks. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1449208414069043203
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2021 at 10:33:42 AM
@ShittyChallenge Shitty camera, or the shittiest camera? #GetMono https://t.co/O5sYj4ZyXI
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2021 at 8:39:56 PM
Sunflower This morning, I took a sunflower we picked a week ago outside and shot this picture. I used my 1902 vintage Century No. 5 5x7 with a 10 inch Petzval f/6.7. Shot on Kodak Ektachrome 64T expired in 2005. I had to use an 85B filter to color correct. #filmphotography https://t.co/5nbvP5QfRK
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 10, 2021 at 3:14:53 PM
Untitled #contaxiii with a Voigtländer SC Skopar 25mm f/4 lens, stopped down to f/16, on @kodak Plus-X from a bulk roll that expired in 1998 (really wish they’d bring this film back). Shot at EI 50 and a bit overexposed at that; next roll will be at 64 #filmphotography #film https://t.co/zAdiNZNnOJ
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 10, 2021 at 12:28:53 AM
First Camera: Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic R4 Last Camera: Graflex RB Super D 4x5 Best Camera: Pentax 67 Worst Camera: Holga (lens was too good; preferred my Dianas) https://twitter.com/jaserhunter/status/1446991649511460868
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2021 at 7:42:40 AM
If you see this, drop a picture of yourself that looks like an album cover https://twitter.com/hansv/status/1446362519640158215 https://t.co/00Y51A19dA
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2021 at 8:23:17 AM
Twin Lights You shouldn’t shoot directly into the sun, except when you should. Shot at Twin Lights lighthouse in Highlands, NJ, a couple of weeks ago on #adox #scala 50 slide film and developed in their Scala Reversal kit. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead https://t.co/AADyHEYT3B
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2021 at 11:31:40 PM
This is the one thing I wanted from this package for myself. Fuck off, Democrats. https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1444749165033054212
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2021 at 11:25:50 PM
RT @SenDuckworth: Retweet if you believe Election Day should be a federal holiday.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2021 at 1:42:33 PM
The US and UK, two peas in a pod, being devoured by a Russian campaign to discredit and destroy democracy around the world. https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1444353398594281476
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2021 at 8:53:47 AM
Vic’s Italian American Restaurant Been a while since I’ve been here. I noticed they have outdoor seating, so maybe it’s time to go again. #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #allthroughalenspodcast #rolleiflex #agfascala #slidefilm https://t.co/HRUYslmEcj
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:19:12 AM
@instagram @Flickr @tryglass So give me my data, @instagram, so I can remember the halcyon days when you didn’t suck and I’ll never more darken your door.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:17:25 AM
@instagram @Flickr @tryglass I’ve resisted deleting my account on Instagram even though I’ve stopped posting there because despite all the static, there is a community there. There are people there who I don’t have other ways to contact. But every time I open the app I feel my blood pressure rise.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:14:09 AM
@instagram @Flickr @tryglass It’s early days with Glass. The lack of likes and insistence on comments as a way of building community adds significant friction; sometimes you don’t have anything to say other than “wow, that’s neat”. But then, nobody’s building a profile based on what I like to sell me shit.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:12:12 AM
@instagram @Flickr @tryglass With Glass, I know that when spammers show up, they’re shown the door, not the rate card. I know with Glass, the experience is about photographs, not about videos and reels and suggestions and fuck you very much @instagram I don’t want any of that shit.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:10:22 AM
@instagram I’ve moved my photographic efforts back to @flickr and over to @tryglass. I know not everyone can sign up for Glass; it’s currently iOS only, and not everyone wants to pay. But with Glass, I know that I’m the customer, not the product.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:03:47 AM
@instagram I’d really like to be able to do that, because I’ve had about enough of their shit and want to just shut my account. I’ve been a member since the first hour they were open to the public, and the experience has just gotten worse and worse. I’ve had enough.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2021 at 12:02:13 AM
There doesn’t seem to be any way to save your entire @instagram feed, all the photos you’ve uploaded and the comments and likes you’ve received. Not even all the photos without comments and likes. Or even the page that has the entirety of your feed.
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