Amsterdam 201205 – Images by Allen Sullivan

“One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit card receipts), forever storing their contents in government files. No search warrant is needed for any of this. No oversight exists. And there are no apparent constraints on what the U.S. Government can do with regard to whom it decides to target or why.

…But the case of Laura Poitras, an Oscar-and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and intrepid journalist, is perhaps the most extreme.”

Read Greenwald’s story here. Then read all of his stories.

A few stills from the next video for BTB Fitness.

GoPro Moto Stills Test on Three Gaps Route from Allen Sullivan on Vimeo.

Another test of the GoPro HD stills function. Done on the popular North Georgia cycling route Three Gaps. About 50 miles long, one photo taken every second. Final tally was approx. 3,000 photos. Camera was mounted to the front fender of a Triumph Bonneville T100 with the suction cup mount.

A 30-something-minute ride through Atlanta to test the still photos function on a GoPro camera. Photo taken every two seconds. Edited in FCP X with canned music (because it would be doubly boring without music).

One of the projects I have for this year involves looking not far away, but much closer at things nearby.

Guatemalan coffee bean.

Oxidized screws.