I will never forget the day, I was in year ten, about 15 years old, I had worked all week on an assignment, the night before the due date my father went on to the home computer (this was about ten years ago, when everyone shared computers) all of a sudden I hear it… BAM… something bad had happened, he crashed the computer, my files were fucked, I was pissed, my dad, he didn’t really know what to do, I started calling him an idiot, I probably yelled it at him, what the fuck, he had totally ruined a weeks worth of work all those hours, all that time felt absolutely and completely wasted. In the middle of telling my dad what an idiot he was he stopped me and asked, Adam look at the situation, the compter crashed, yes your assignment is gone but what is yelling and whining about it going to do? is it going to get it done? no, there is nothing you can do but start again, so sit down and re do it. I sat down and re did the assignment in 2 hours, which had taken me almost 5 days.
I got three things out of this. 1. if something fucks up, getting angry will only make the situation worse, just deal with it. 2. working on the last minute can give you a week of free time and 3. Always ALWAYS back up files!!!
This is all that remains from a file I was working on for most of last week, I’m not sure exactly what happened but I think it has something to do with a photoshop plug in I used, at the same time I was starting up a new back up drive and this was taking days, so this meant there was no back up from anything I was working on. A sad day for me yes, but maybe it was meant to be as I actually don’t mind the colours of the scrambled thing that was left over… I think it was meant to be and one day I will create something with this.
