SO SLOW. I just ordered 2 G to make up for it.
Brendan emailed me this morning with a couple of links to new Her Flyaway Manner songs. I’ve listened to both of these about ten times in a row and feel much better about my lost data.
Check these out for the best aural experience of your week: Bruises & Follow
And in other music news: Tessa and I have seen Battles play twice this April. They are better than ever before, with funny voices and an uncanny ability to synch themselves with samplers. Their latest record is also good for computer problems.
Michael just put a link on his website to John Cage’s Rules and Hints. Look at #8: “Do not try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes.”
Wow. That just about answers every problem I’ve ever had with making decisions.
A while ago, my computer started having kernel panics whenever I’d do something pressing, like recording audio or editing big image files. Bad news. And then, about a month ago, as I was getting up from my desk a little too quickly, my foot got tangled with a firewire cord from my computer to an external drive. As I tried to leave the room, the drive flew off the shelf and landed on the floor squarely on its bottom, running and connected the whole time. Talk about your life flashing before your eyes…
Both my computer and that drive have seemed fine until this weekend, when they both apparently decided to throw me a party. I had two kernel panics in a row and then my computer wouldn’t restart at all - no RAM beeps, no noise, nothing. My (flying) drive was connected and running through the panics, and so now I had to just shut it off while it was spinning.
After connecting my drive to another computer I find that one of the partitions is damaged. After almost a month, all of a sudden a kernel panic damages a partition on an external firewire drive? I don’t know enough about computers to evaluate this. So - unless I’m interested in paying exorbitant recovery fees, I’ve lost about 50 gigs of photo and video.
This is terrible horrible awful and shitty. And the idiotic way in which I’ve “organized” my files means that there may or may not be backups on another drive.
Thank goodness for partioning - if it weren’t for that, I might not have anything right now! I’m backing up to DVDs tomorrow.
Bradley says:
“I don’t have a blog to start a topic so I am hijacking yours. During a fellow student’s crit the other day it was suggested that she focus on sexuality in her work (it wasn’t stated that bluntly but that was the direction they were nudging her). It occured to me that sexuality is something that a lot of people make work about this and that no one ever tells them its a bad idea (i’m not saying it is). It seems that sexuality as a subject matter is infalliable. One can always make art about. I am starting to think that it is “the” default subject in which alot of people make work about when they cant think anything else… or don’t have a “project”. Don’t get me wrong some artists are compelled to make work about this but I am not talking them. I guess I was wondering what everyone thought the reasons for this were (i.e. a never ending audeince…who isn’t interested in sex) and are there other subject matters that function in the same way. Am I just making a stink about nothing? Sorry if I am rambling.”
Hijack away, Bradley; the interweb was invented for talking about sex!
Isn’t “camera vision” the default vision of many photographers? Or how about “art as therapy [for the artist and empathizers]” as the default subject for many, many artists? I think sexuality works as a subject so well because it is such a base emotional/physiological response to other people - it is how we notice the “other” in the most profound way (that and death, I suppose). Also, sexuality is inherent in every person on the planet, regardless of time, culture, etc. (although they are certainly factors which can influence the way sexuality is experienced).
