Yo I’m posting this from my iPhone so it may look a bit sloppy.
im currently In california so I can’t really update this too much as I dont have
a computer. I’ve taken some really cool pictures while I was out here I’ll post em when I get back to Michigan.

I don’t usually post 2 times a day, but after reading this I got a little upset naturally as it comes from someone who works in the field of photography and graphic art. This is just further proof of 1984 happening in 2008.

Taken from : http://momoko.us/news/CoralGablesPolice2008.htm

“For the record, I was warned that I may become a target of harassment if I make a lot of noise about what I experienced with the Coral Gables Police. But I am writing this anyway.

In a sunny morning of June 10, 2008, I was taking a walk on Coralway in Coral Gables, just several blocks from where I live. It had rained earlier and all plants were wet and shiny under the bright sun light, so I took a camera with me. I put a big yellow straw hat tied up with a bandanna so the hat wouldn’t get blown by wind. (Photo at left) This hat thing was to protect my face from the intense sun light as I easily get sun spots on my face exposed to the sun. I simply grabbed this piece of fabric to attach the hat to my head to keep the hat on my head. It never occurred to me that my outfit was too exotic for some xenophobic Coral Gables police officers.

In retrospect, the problem started the very moment the officer saw my outfit. But the more apparent problem started when he saw me taking a picture of the police motorcycle. Immediately I was treated like a terrorist/criminal/illegal/lunatic, with a series of interrogations. My camera was taken, just to be discovered that all display on my camera was in the Japanese language. This offended the police officer, not being able to read a thing, in a great deal, fueling to his xenophobia. He had me help change the language setting to English, and after that he would not let me see what he was doing with my camera. He actually didn’t even allow me to move.

I kept saying to him that he could delete only the pictures with the motorcycle but other digital images should be left alone. He kept saying he wouldn’t delete the other images. Before giving me back the camera, he opened up the camera, took out my 1GB (one gigabyte) memory card, and threw it to the ground. At that time I was just coping the situation because I was frightened with this big officer with abusive attitude. I said, “Would you please not to do that?” as I picked up the memory card.

He handed my camera, and again, scared me by shouting “Leave now!” Naturally I left the area in shock. I had walked about a block away from the site when I discovered that my 1GB (one gigabyte) memory card was totally erased. I am a visual artist and there were large number of high resolution images of my work in the memory card. All gone. For what?

I will not be quiet about this. Abuse of power by law enforcement officers is an ongoing national problem. I don’t care how small and trivial my problem is. I refuse to accept police abuse of any scale and any content.”

” This is how I looked on the day of the incident. I admit that it is not very fashionable, but it is not illegal to wear a thing like this on the head. Or maybe there’s a law that I am not aware of?”

The last couple days I’ve been busy as shit, and I really haven’t had any personal time at all, between work, friends, and other things. I’m physically and mentally drained and I think I’m going to spend a day or two at home, or at least for a little while to rest and do things I like doing.

I did not sleep at all last night, I had to take my girlfriend to some job application thing this morning so I decided to stay up all night. Why? I don’t know, I guess I figured it’d be better then sleeping all day and accidentally not taking her. I did get to sleep at her house for awhile, although It wasn’t very good. I think I’m going to spend the rest of the day trying to find ways to make this site better, and maybe reading a bit of my book I bought, as I have yet had the chance to crack that open.

On a different note, if anybody is reading this leave a comment below and show me!

Thanks!

So take this as a progress report for those that are reading, which are not many if not none. I currently added a couple features to the site such as the About Me, Photo Albums, and Links pages. My photo album has like 1 picture in it, but i’ll be uploading more in the future and adding a bunch of different albums. I took me awhile to find out how I wanted to host my pictures on here, but I got it and it looks good. The Photos page features a slide show of the album as well as the direct album you can click to go to visit the pictures individually. All in all it’s looking good.

On another note I bought “Creating Web Pages for Dummies” today. It comes with 9 books on how to get a website going in one. I’m pretty excited about it, just have to find some time to read it. So I’ll will probably be coding a real site fairly soon. Other then that I spent most of the day hanging out with my girlfriend.

Thanks for reading, I’ll keep you updated on this. Not that anyone is reading.

This is my first post on here. So in this I’ll basically tell what i’m making this site for and what I plan to do with it in the future. Basically this website is going to be a personal web page of mine(austin) as well as a portfolio of the photography I take over the course of time. I plan on posting a whole bunch of shit so keep an eye out! I’ll probably post sweet shit in this blog as well, and or get my ideas out. But who knows where this could lead!

So to start it off, this took a really flippen long time to get going. I faced technical problem after technical problem to get it to actually work as it is doing now. To describe the whole mess, I must first describe my line of thinking. I wanted to create a portfolio/blog of sorts, so I got in touch with my good friend Nick who has space on a server he bought. He bought this domain for me(thanks a bunch!) for like 10 bucks. He’s pretty rad. He set it all up for me, and helped me a long the way to go figure out how to run the cpanel shit to get a website going. I started looking through website templates (eventually I’m going to code my own site) and I found this one I liked. So we installed it, but I wanted a more blog/posting ability without coding it into the html/ccs as I’m a noob at that right now. So he installed wordpress on here for me. It changed the template and made it look really lame. I didn’t like it so we deleted all the word press shit from my directory folder(badmove). What this did was take out the file the tells the program that installs wordpress to uninstall it. About 10 minutes after this, I looked at the website temp again and it said It came in a wordpress template as well, so we try to reinstall wordpress and we get an error, “can not install 2 scripts on the same domain”. We tried flippen everything until we basically both gave up. The next day I was determined to fix it. I googled the problem and found out that there is a place on your host here the software saves files the are supposedly already installed on your domain. So I cleared that folder and now it’s working fine. I learned a whole lot about website hosting through the whole ordeal, so I guess I didn’t come away empty handed despite it being fucking frustrating.

Anyways, I plan on coding my own website in the future and not rely on wordpress for my website needs(website design for dummies here I come). Hopefully this turns out really neat. If anybody has any suggestions that would be great! Let me know!

Thanks!