skate session

Well I love skateboarding but wasn;t really planning on shooting tonight. So I only had my 256mb card in my camera! What a fool I am!

here are some shots from tonight.
Kickflip in:


Over the light

Indy over the light:

and some portraits at the end.




thanks for looking.

Lots of stuff going on

Wow! I rarely update this thing. But due to Todd's request, I'll try and keep updated more. School is fun, my PJ professor is pretty cool and pushes us to create better images daily.

here are a few from the past week:

Legendary Cab doing an inverted handplant at the Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Contest in Scotts Valley


Crystal listening to her Ipod. I wanted to do something for my environmental portraiture class, using natural light. But at the same time, take something so common like finding a song on your ipod at night. This is what i came up with:

And it's homecoming time at SJSU here are a few shots from yesterday's game:



I should be putting up a few multimedia presentations by the end of the weekend.
I'm off to shoot a wedding today!

-Andrew

Should the CIA be allowed to use any means necessary to gain information?

The CIA should be allowed to use whatever means are necessary to extract information from terrorists. If we aren’t allowed to use even some of the tactics that they use on us we may never be able to get information from them, which in turn could make us more suseptible to another terrorist attack.
“More power to the CIA,” states a student that declined to give information. “If it’s going to protect my wellbeing, then I want them to do what they have too.”
Some would argue against letting the CIA to use any means necessary to extract information. We would be lowering our standards as Americans to treat people the way the terrorists do. The thing that most people that are in support of this don’t understand is how we can let the terrorists chop off our soldiers heads, starve journalists, and kill them ruthlessly, but for us to use certain tactics such as swirlees, titty twisters, indian burns and wedgies among other things. Even if such techniques as making prisoners listen to loud music, not being allowed to read their book of religion, or even to make them eat food that they are not accustomed too.
Most of the torture that the CIA wants to do is not physical harm, what they want to do is issue psychological warfare---they want to get into suspect’s head to extract information leading to our nation’s safety and security.
Another item that people bring up is that the suspects should be treated as well and if not better as Americans. These people are being treated a certain way because of the way they have been acting. Suspected terrorists should be treated the way they are and should be forced to torture or better be able to give a good answer to why they were doing what they were.
Some also argue that the Geneva Convention should be applicable to the suspects that we apprehend. Why should we give them the convience of the Geneva Convention if they have not agreed to abide by the convetion themselves? They use their own means of torture to gain information from us, which is to be considered inhumane, but when our tactics are used on the enemy, immediately accusations of war crimes and inhumane torture are brought to the table.
What will be considered inhumane next? Forcing them to listen to heavy metal, jazz or even the Backstreet Boys? It seems that if the government tries to put more sanctions on the way that we can treat the enemy we will lose this war faster and lose more men and women here and over on the battlefield.

.mac blogging is no good

I've decided not to stay with .mac for blogging as its kind of a pain to use.

-andrew

New Site

Well I've decided to move over to Apple's hosting, so here is the new addy for my blog/ site.

http://web.mac.com/atarinaper/iWeb

More work

Well its been a while since I've updated. Much has been going on, I got back from Bishop a few weeks ago and immediately started summer school. Math is terrible as it takes me twice as long to grasp an algebraic concept as it does with science, history or english. Hopefully I will be picking up a new camera and lense with in the next few weeks as well as some other little do-dads like this guy: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack2496-main.html

The m-audio portable audio recorder is awsome and with my newly found interest in trying to work with multimedia presentations to give web viewers more pleasure, it gives me the option to record ambient sound and conduct interviews with my subjects.

Over the next few weeks I will try and update more and more, but as you can see things are a little stressful, especially with another class starting today!

Soon though, classes will have finished and I'll be able to relax for a few weeks, before returning to the hustle and bustle as the Las Positas Express as the Photo Editor for the semester.

good night,

Andrew

been really busy

Well its finals time... and I've been super busy with school and work and planning a trip to bishop this weekend. Mike and I are heading out on friday or saturday, so it should be pretty chill, but it looks like tioga pass is closed still which sucks tons because its going to make our drive twice is long. But hopefully I'll be able to make some good images and have some fun climbing. Here is an image i made while at Crystal's cousin's confermation