Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io), page 2

I think my favorite black and white film will always be Kodak T-Max 400. It’s also the only film that is more expensive to bulk roll ($180 for 100ft) than to buy singles of ($10.99).

Life’s too short to shoot black and white film that I don’t love.

#BelieveInFilm

@Gargron I roll my own film so sometimes I just do 20 exposures for fun since I like to switch up film stock

I took a photo of my friend at lunch time today on my film camera and I sent her a scanned copy by 6pm. If I had taken it on my DSLR there was no way you could have paid me to load the SD card in my computer and send her a photo in the same time. I just personally enjoy the whole film / dev / scan process, and find it an essential part of my creative practice!

#BelieveInFilm

Rainy days with Cookie

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

My bathroom

#BelieveInFilm #FilmDev

First hour of 20 hours of travel before I get to eat delicious food, enjoy tropical weather and see my loved ones.

I’ve decided my first meal when I arrive will be ‘zi char’. Zi char is 煮炒, also known as ‘dai pai dong’ in Hong Kong, the type of Chinese high heat cooking that warms the hearts of pyromaniacs.

Until then, there’s TSA, airport experiences, airplane food (thankfully not terrible on Singapore Airlines), and travel anxiety (I hate covid-era travel, obviously)

#TootSea #Singapore

My film survived!!!

(Requested for a hand check, agents were very friendly and accommodating)

This is at SFO international terminal.

The film guard bags are useless, new scanners are now super powerful and also the agents take it out of the bag anyway (so clear bags are better)

Now to brush up on whether I can say all that in Indonesian in a few days too (tho it’ll be a much smaller amount of film so maybe not too terrible if not)

#BelieveinFilm

I see the Singapore Airlines crew boarding the plane (before passengers do), and already my brain is codeswitching to start talking in Singaporean English and Singlish (not always the same).

Accent, cadence is different from American English. You can learn about it in this video

https://youtu.be/O9gModChGyM?si=nghP6XMLpRAq6IBv

I wouldn’t say it’s my natural accent as I’ve been very Americanized since I was a kid, but I definitely switch between both easily

#TootSea #Singapore

My life superpower is I can fall asleep immediately on boarding any plane, in any class of travel, and I can sleep uninterrupted until I arrive. Whether it’s 5 hours or 15. Without drugs. Probably natural narcolepsy.

I would be a suitable candidate for cryosleep to space

I have been advised on the internet that my cat is not a chonky, but a floofy flonky.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties

Another scan from the film I just developed in my bathroom: the view from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley

(Glacier Point is nicer, but also a longer drive)

(Shot on Yashica 124G, Portra 400, self-developed in Bellini C41 kit, scanned on Fuji Frontier)

#FilmIsNotDead #BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat #Portra #Yashica #FilmPhotography #Photography #Outdoors #Nature #Yosemite #California

I saw the best minds of my generation / spend their careers / making legs in virtual reality

https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-avatars-finally-get-legs-in/

#Meta #VR #Legs

Every single ‘software engineer’ I know who has ever over-valued their own work over blue collar work has, without fail, turned out to be MAGAs or incels. They tend to be the people who have their self worth wrapped up in their compensation and status, and are quick to anger when transit workers or delivery drivers, who work long hours in ways that are taxing in every way, break their narrative for themselves

https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-comments-170k-ups-driver-deal-anger-admiration-2023-8?amp

This recipe for Burmese milk tea is excellent. It almost brings me back to sweaty nights along Merchant Road in Yangon, downing endless little cups of lahpet yay cho

Very similar to ‘cutting chai’ but uses condensed milk instead

https://youtu.be/lZrmwCMG9YY

@aral omg you have a very similar complicated background as my wife @sabcatsilver with overlaps in Malaysia and France :) (and Singapore / China / SF)!

@aral ugh i am so sorry. that sucks!

Someone made a list of the best Japanese restaurants in SF that are ‘amazing’, and they are the places my wife and I refuse to go to because they’re so bad. Sigh this cuisine is not that good in this city