March 23, 2012
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"like a bad tv commercial"
have you seen the bad creepy tv commercial where the new bride and groom keep getting warned separately about how they are doomed to lose everything? it's from some data storage back up your files type schemapository.
they are out to make money sure but it is a sad fact of digital life that all these pieces of our work, lives, art, film and music are only as real as the electrons holding them together in a magnetic sea of a billion on and offs per second.
and when your hard drive crashes, it's all gone, usually.
we had two computers die this week here in the house. This bein g written on an old scrapper machine with funny blue lights and fans all over it. I squeezed in a couple of drives and broke me some windows to have and see thru for a while...
got the ubuntu brewing up as we speak tho...
I am missing all my art and music.
The art part obviously sucks because I had created it all over the course of years and years....
the music i have a back up somewhere out there,...I can probably downlow it from the youtube again if I have to.
but eh, the show must go on...I'd like to share the last piece of art I made with the old machine...I made a print and t-shirt for my Zazzle store, Jolly Rastafari.
It's called" The Power of Cock", I felt like I had to make it after days of seeing a big rooster with hypnotizing eyes screaming at me " The power of Cock compels you" all exorcist-style and stuff. anyway, here it is:
now available as a print or t-shirt!
Comments (3)
The Power of Cock Compels You!
Sucks to lose all that stuff. Dude, you ever hear of a backup?
My basement is crammed with six dead boxes. Four of them are Macs. All of the original files for some cool art I made between 1996 and 2004 are trapped on a Jaz disc, drive for which, if I even still have it, interfaces by SCSI cable which are no longer the bees knees. I thinks it's so ironic how all art has turned into data and all data storage is now digital which was supposed to be more archival than film and magnetic tape except that it's actually less archival. Sculptors don't have this problem so much, I guess.