you people are amazing
posted Sep 10, 2008 Comments
It's amazing to me that... a project as small as Pedal could come so close, so fast, to a disastrous dead-end, having drive failures like we did last week almost seemed the snapping point of the project. But, it's amazing to me that, as close as we came to loosing the last 6 months of work, that so many of you helped out on such short notice.
I just kept thinking about how things would be different without this blog, without the people who visit it and communicate with us so regularly, how watered down the film would be without your feedback... how alone Amanda and I would feel carrying this highly ambitious project. Last week was a huge reminder of that difference. And I wanted to say "thank you" to everyone who left a comment, everyone who was able to donate, everyone who crossed their fingers for us.
Last night I came home from work to find 7 new hard-drives waiting for me, five of them being 500 GB USB drives, and the other two being 500 GB firewire (800) drives. As I'm writing this I'm balancing out all of the film's footage onto the two firewire drives, which are named: Eko and Kate.
When Locke stopped mounting, I tried the usual tricks to get it to come back, I used an 800 cable, then a 400 cable, I plugged it into my MacBook Pro and then my Mac Mini, it wouldn't show up in the finder or with Disk Utility. I let it sit overnight to still have no luck, but for some reason, and I'm not complaining, last night I daisy-chained it through Eko and managed to get it to show up in Disk Utility! After a failed verification test, and a failed repair, I managed to "rebuild" the drive using Disk Warrior. I was so happy and relieved I wanted to run down the street screaming. It looks like we got through this without loosing a single file. *knock on wood*
I sealed all the drives onto the top shelf of a bookcase next to my work-desk, and mounted a dual window fan to blow all the hot air *off* the drives, and also keep the dust out. I think they'll be happy in there.
On a side note, I wanted to mention that we have two new site features I released in the last two weeks - and I'm really excited about both of them. The first being a new re-designed music suggestion page, you'll find it in the menu bar to the left, it's called help us find ♫, the old blog post we were originally using wasn't built around "conversation" enough. Since we launched it a few days ago, we've already gotten several great new band suggestions. So thanks, and I can't wait to get more.
The other site feature is the new "get involved" page - this is completely differnet from anything else on Pedal and I'm really dorked out about it. Please take a moment to check it out, I think you'll like it, and you'll find a lot of cool stuff on there - free SWAG being one of them.
I just kept thinking about how things would be different without this blog, without the people who visit it and communicate with us so regularly, how watered down the film would be without your feedback... how alone Amanda and I would feel carrying this highly ambitious project. Last week was a huge reminder of that difference. And I wanted to say "thank you" to everyone who left a comment, everyone who was able to donate, everyone who crossed their fingers for us.
Last night I came home from work to find 7 new hard-drives waiting for me, five of them being 500 GB USB drives, and the other two being 500 GB firewire (800) drives. As I'm writing this I'm balancing out all of the film's footage onto the two firewire drives, which are named: Eko and Kate.
When Locke stopped mounting, I tried the usual tricks to get it to come back, I used an 800 cable, then a 400 cable, I plugged it into my MacBook Pro and then my Mac Mini, it wouldn't show up in the finder or with Disk Utility. I let it sit overnight to still have no luck, but for some reason, and I'm not complaining, last night I daisy-chained it through Eko and managed to get it to show up in Disk Utility! After a failed verification test, and a failed repair, I managed to "rebuild" the drive using Disk Warrior. I was so happy and relieved I wanted to run down the street screaming. It looks like we got through this without loosing a single file. *knock on wood*
I sealed all the drives onto the top shelf of a bookcase next to my work-desk, and mounted a dual window fan to blow all the hot air *off* the drives, and also keep the dust out. I think they'll be happy in there.
On a side note, I wanted to mention that we have two new site features I released in the last two weeks - and I'm really excited about both of them. The first being a new re-designed music suggestion page, you'll find it in the menu bar to the left, it's called help us find ♫, the old blog post we were originally using wasn't built around "conversation" enough. Since we launched it a few days ago, we've already gotten several great new band suggestions. So thanks, and I can't wait to get more.
The other site feature is the new "get involved" page - this is completely differnet from anything else on Pedal and I'm really dorked out about it. Please take a moment to check it out, I think you'll like it, and you'll find a lot of cool stuff on there - free SWAG being one of them.
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