So… I’ve been using Photoshop to create my latest work, there’s almost a month of meticulous drawing involved and today I boot up my external Lacie drive today, start Photoshop, open the file and guess what, it’s corrupted, what’s more so is the back up from two days ago.

I’m going to have to upgrade from USB2 to firewire and build a better scratchdisk, it’s the only solution I can think of. Essentially a month of my life has just gone in the bin. I’ve had a look around for a way to recover the files but all the software solutions are in Windows format (what a surprise) plus and here’s the most worrying aspect about the whole debacle, each file (which was at least 80+ MB each) is now registering at 32kb.

So I guess even if I moved it to a PC and tried to recover there’d be nothing in it anyway. So, if you’re an artist and you work in Photoshop beware, this could happen to you. I feel totally depressed today, all that work, effort, time, heart and soul poured in to a total waste of everything you could possibly imagine.

I am probably going to start again, I will back up all my work ten times from now on and keep some of the backups on my Mac – let’s hope that makes a difference.

I’d love to show you what I’ve been working on, I’d thought it may just have been my best work yet, entitled "Outta Space", but I can’t, because it is no more. What a way to spend one’s life, at the beck and call of technology. I am still waiting on a few bolts from the guys near the Tate who sold me my print table, I also need to clear more junk from the basement to make some room, but everything is on hold for now. I’m tempted to spend a week in a drunken haze just to give myself a break but I am sure before long, or even short, I will be slaving away once again to finish this piece (even if it kills me).

Gawd I hate technology.

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