brett g porter

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Music Software Developer/Trombonist/Composer Sr. Software Engineer @ https://paceap.com. Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association http://midi.org. he/him. Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io & https://bgporter.net

This image shows a real-time safety alert for "Loose Goats on Street" displayed on the Citizen app interface.
some very low, and very loud fireworks being launched from the next street over
Jill Scott performing at the big July 4 concert on the parkway in Philly. A giant version of her is projected behind her.
Live transcript of English speaker translated into Japanese. Looking forward to seeing how this handles my talk in a few hours.
Prototype piano from the future. Only two ever made, saw both of them yesterday.
At the Roland inspiration hub
Crowded Akihabara station
Nighttime view of brightly lit Akihabara in wide angle
TMBG on stage with pink and blue lights. S-E-X-X-Y
Me, a balding middle aged dude in sunglasses, mid-interview, trying hard to form complete and concise sentences. Caption: "What to know about World Cup parking permits near Lemon Hill". Chyron caption: "Internal bleeding was the reason he missed 2nd round." Hope they weren't talking about me.
Gale and Evelle Snopes eating mighty good cereal flakes in Raising Arizona
Two musicians with large metal handbells
John Cleese, behind his news announcer's desk, about to declare 'and now for something completely different'. 15 September, 1970
Mary halvorson sextet at Solar Myth, Philadelphia.
Screenshot of "Citizen" app, headline: "Report of man Armed With Fistful of Rice, Fish Threatening People" 4.6 miles away from me. Icon of a knife inside a golden circle in the middle of the image.
Selfie showing the Central Park summer stage, waiting for They Might Be Giants to take the stage, Aug 2017.
Banner: Vote in the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards
Orson Welles points at a picture of himself as CF Kane
Barton Fink sits fully dressed on the beach next to a mysterious package
A snail hiding inside their brown and yellow shell
From Citizen app: report of man in Mr. softee truck armed with gun
old-timey looking Sidewalk Stamp, "Wm Krause Cement & Asphalt Paving"
Panel from a achewood comic showing a tattoo saying ICE CREAM HEADACHE
Steve j Leuzzi, King of Concrete
A crude graffiti-esque drawing of a muted post horn
Nic Cage, as H.I. McDonough, getting his mug shot taken in the Coen's "Raising Arizona"
A Mr Softee truck outside my window. The music DOES NOT STOP.
Miles Okazaki and Bill Frisell playing guitar, with a few people seated behind them.
My wife and me standing in front of our new row house.
Facebook post: The only think I have to say about that half time shows….thank god it’s over!
Anthony Dean Harris in person!
Me and my son with trombonist Dan Levine
Theater marquee : They Might Be Giants
A large neon sign of a man on horseback and the words REVERE COPPER & BRASS
Green and white Aer Lingus plane at the gate in Dublin Airport
A golden sign that says “Charles Bukowski Pissed Here”
Screenshot of twitter saying "Your account is deactivated"
A sticker with a picture of a US flag that says "I voted".
Gavin sez: "Onions is all I eat."
Closeup of a very goodbrown and white pup laying on a green lawn
Liberty Ellman -guitar Greg Osby -alto saxophone Harish Raghavan -bass Eric Harland -drums
Instruments on an empty stage, bathed in blue light
A sign from a bar in Los Angeles saying "Charles Bukowski Pissed Here"
John Goodman angrily holds a pistol, from “The Big Lebowski”
Program for Inside Light at the Park Ave Armory
A collage of nighttime images from NYC in the late 70s, front and center is a man in a trench coat but the head and neck are the Chrysler Building and it's starting to be clear how I got to be the way that I am.
Still from Richard Condie's 1985 animated short "The Big Snit" showing a scrabble rack with the letters "CARROST"
Nicholas Cage (as H. I. McDonough) in Raising Arizona looks in the mirror mid-shave. A look of dread or self-loathing in his eyes as he's considering what domesticity has done to him
My brown and white pit/beagle mix, patient in the rain while I take this picture
Beavis and Butthead Xmas tree ornaments
Henry Threadgill and Dafnis Prieto at the Jazz Gallery
it's the same old ending, time to go
A neighbor walks their dog in front of my snowy yard
Comedian George Gobel on an old episode of Hollywood Squares. Just seeing this makes me feel like I'm home sick from school.
Buckethead with his KFC guitar
Still from Greenaway's 1989 film "The Cook, the Thief, His wife & Her Lover"