Channel 1049 is back!!!!!!!

Woot!
I think this picture shows everyones excitement!

Can some one tell me....

what is a Chost, and how do I ride it?










Kurt and Sebastian fixing the typo that was there for about 10 minutes while we yelled at him and watched him move the letters from side to side.

The Early Feburary Car Crash

On Friday, Feburary 2, a car ran into the Cinearts building at Santana Row. Well his car didnt actually hit the building but he was drunk and hit a lot of other things. He was in the parking lot between the theatre and Pasta Pomodoro. He ran over a curb and through a hedge and then made a 45 degree turn, ran up on the sidewalk, hit a stop sign and flug it off to the side; hit a garbage can that landed on his hood; made some people dodge out of his path for dear life, and then made his way towards the theatre. He must have breaked right before the theatre because the fame damage is very minor but when he stopped, the garbage can on his hood was thrown into one of the doors. The whole glass pane crumbled into pieces into the lobby. The car then idled for a while on the patio, the passenger ran out of the car and then got back inside. After a few minutes, the drunk driver backed up, and continued to drive out on to Olsen, which was his original attempt. Security was able to stop the guy, get the keys out of the ignition, and held him until the police came. It was an exciting night, my staff were all witnesses to the accident so they were telling security and the cops what happend. I became the crime scene photographer because security didn't have their camera. These pictures are my crime scene photos but only ones to show what damaged happened to the theater.

All the pretty glass we swept up (I made this picture better, and altered the hue a bit...)



Outside the theatre








Inside the theatre






P.S. I found a piece of glass a week later. It was also cool looking at the damage just the glass had done to the theatre. On one the the beams around the doors, there is a cut from flying glass. From that, I know that the glass was flying at a high velocity. Luckly, no one was close to the doors when it happened or that a movie didn't break at that same time.

Yosemite!!

I should really learn the saying "less is more" becuase I probably put too many on here, but I have 146 images in all and i only did about 40 so I did narrow it down some! ;) Yosemite was a blast, we had so much fun; relaxing in the mountains; playing in the snow. We went to Yosemite because Omar had never seen the snow before and since he loves Yosemite so much, it was just a perfect idea! I drove up friday and arrived in Yosemite around 3pm. When we entered the park, we pulled off to the side of the road and played in the snow, trying to make snowballs, and dancing on the frozen river. After that we stopped at El Capitan and climbed on the frozen waterfall, bridalviel falls. That night we had dinner at the pizza place near our Stoneman cabin at Curry Village and played phase 10.
The next day Omar tried to stuff his mouth full of gummi bears (pictures not shown) and we had breakfast, again the pizza place. Then we made our way to Mirror Lake getting distracted on the way. The lake was goregous, with a golden sandy bottem that harmonized with the golden afternoon sun. We spent the whole day at Mirror Lake, walking around for hours. Afterwards, we didn't want to eat at the pizza place agian (it was really good pizza though), so we went to the main store and were able to buy food supplies there. We went back to Curry Village and had our picnic at the pizza place! After dinner, we went to the cabin and played a drinking game. We also walked around outside, I saw a cute fuzzy animal, and people do have stories about me from that night ;). The next day we went to the Ansel Adams Gallery and the museum and made any site seeing stops on the way home. It was a really good, fun trip with excellent people and friends to travel with!

In the car











Denny's, the ultimate travel restauraunt





I like the lighting :)


SNOW!!!

















Dancing on ice








There can only be one Highlander!!!


El Capitan


Pretty


"It's safe" ~Omar


The boys :)


Saturday morning going to Mirror Lake








You can see the fear in her eyes


Andrew's snowman (actual size)


Omar killing the alien bursting forwarth up from under the ground! (he plays Halo a bit to much....)





The oh, so pretty, Mirrow Lake











Pushing him into the water.. HAHAhaha


Dancing


Omar getting beat-up by the bear :(


"I'm going skiing!" ~Jorge


The buck we saw. He had two does with him

My what big eyes you have!

Zero Heroes

This is great!
Heroes Zeroes



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My Alcatraz book

I created a book using these pictures for my final project in advance black and white class. These are the photos I took on the alcatraz workshop I went on back in October. It was such a fun trip! When we got there, we met up in the room called the electrical shop. We had lunch there and then we were allowed to go photograph. First we went to the prison building. They let us go behind locked doors, in to this room that leads to the roof. It was so cool standing on top of the building. There is a thin wire around the top that has electrical current flowing through to keep pigeons off but it was turned off at the time I was there because the Blue Angels flew by. Then I walked into the rifle cage, which is where the guards would walk along the prison behind with guns a fence and look at the prisoners.
Afterwards we went to the Electrical building which was a great run down, deteroating building that had a lot of places to take pictures. After that we went to the Laundry room and we took our group photo there. Then we went out the back of the laundry room, walked around the edge of the island, and watched the sun set behind the Golden Gate Bridge.
After dinner, we were allowed to go out and photograph more. I went back the electrical room, took photos outside of the prison, and when the fog rolled in, the pictures I got came out looking so cool! We also went into the kitchen, the hospital, and the mess hall. When I was in the hospital, someone shined a light into a room, and in the room behind that one were steel surgical tables. It looked so eeire how they reflected the light.
At about 1am, I went to Cell Block D, and slept in my cell room, number 34. The next morning we watched the sun rise, went into cell block A, where confindment was, and below the cell is the mote of the old citidel that used to be there before alcatraz became a prison. After that, the workshop was over and we returned to reality. It was a great experience and a fun workshop that I would definately go on again. If you look at my post of when I was going to Alcatraz, if there is a place to walk on the map, I was there. We walked EVERYWHERE! Anyhoo, here are some of my best pictures, enjoy!

At the Electrical Room



Near the entrance of the gate that leads to the electrical room. I actually took this picture on top of the prison building using my zoom lense to get the close up.



Another picture I took ontop of the prison of a watch tower.



This tunnel is across from the electrical building. The tunnel leads to another room that was very scary at night because it was pitch black.



This is the ruins of an officer building taken once the fog rolled in.



The tunnel lead to this room where I found these switch boxes.



Stairs of where the prisoners first worked. They shut it down shortly after it opened because the guards were in the same area with the prisoners and an imate took a blunt object and bludgened the guard to death.



This is next to the tunnel, these pipes go from near the tunnel into the electrical building.



This is another picture I took on top of the prison building. These windows cover the stairs that lead to the roof. I really liked how the iron was spliting apart.



Stephanie in solitary confindment. All the light the imate would have would come in at the bottome of the door. Around that area are carvings marking the days the prisoner had been there.



The Laundry Room. We took the group photo between the cloumns. The lighting was wonderful at that time.



Another picture I took on top of the prison building. The room were we would all meet was right around the corner from there, to the left of the picture.



This building is right next to the lighthouse. If you see a picture of Alcatraz with the light tower, this is the building (thats in ruins) right next to it. I have a wonderful silouet of the lighttower and this building but I didn't get around to enlarging it.



I hope you enjoyed my stay in prison. I sure did. "I'm having the time of my life! Hey T-bone."