I am not entirely sure what to make of this, but it was an exceptionally bad week for the world of the electron over here at studio DHS. Saturday, a visiting art director accidentally smashes a 500 gig spinning Iomega HD to the floor. Wrecked. Tuesday my never failing super designed Glyph crooked. Weds, one of my G5s onboard 500 gig drives failed. Friday, in a spasm of elctro failure, a brand new Light Panel unit starts to bleat, then fails, followed by a program failure at Smug Mug, then all the electricity in Marina del Rey goes out. Wow, did somebody put a hex on me? None this was tragic. We triple backup everything- at least 2 working copies on connected drives, a third copy on night time backup drives that we store on the other side of the room, and all the still images get burned into a library of DVD. Just in case of a nuclear holocaust, once a month I send to my mom’s garage in Oregon a big drive with everything we did that month. I guess that makes 5 backups on everything. The Glyph is being replaced by the super apologetic people at Glyph tech support in upstate NY, the Light Panel is being replaced by Samy’s, and we popped in a new onboard drive to the sick G5 for a hundred bucks. I had to put out some serious coin for a pile of new G drives and a couple more Glyph raids, just to be sure. I have decided that since an art director smashing a working drive to the floor was never part of the backup contingency plan, nor was 3 drives failing in 3 days, that we need to add another layer of protection. I can not tell you how much I am looking forward to the ram based drives becoming price competitive
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David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
