Scrambled Clown.
I rarely have any computer problems, mainly because I use a rock solid MAC work station and it's proven to be an iron horse year in and year out.
Digitized Doodle.
Every so often though I deceive myself into thinking I know something I don't regarding my computer. It usually happens late at night or on the weekends.
Imprisoned pixels.
A few weeks back I decided to use the "Sync" feature in my Transmit app. I'd never tried it before but decided to play around with it. I set up a folder on my FTP server with like two images on this thinking for some moronic reason that it would sync everything in a folder on my desktop with the folder on my FTP server. This would prove to be a big mistake on my part.
Illo with a bit problem.
You see the app did exactly what it was suppose to do. It synced the folder on my FTP with my desktop and since I only had two images in my FTP folder I saw folders on my desktop just start to vanish one by one. I immediately got that stomach dropping sensation and before I forced quit the app about 30 folders had literally just disappeared as if erased.
Pixelated Tattoo.
To compound the problem unknown to me my current backup system had broken four days prior. All my current projects had literally gone bye bye and I began to panic.
Binary pattern problem.
Thank God for IT friends like my buddy Tony Knight who came over that night and ran a recovery application that took about four hours to recover what I had managed to do in a matter of seconds. About 98% of all my files were recovered in the end.
001011010011 gone wild.
I then spent about a week re-organizing all my work files and re-compiling project folders because the recovery app just renames all files with a number and recovers them into format type folders like "tif" or "jpg" or "pdf" or "psd" so nothing had the correct name and I had wade through thousands of files one by one and sort them all out. (Well most of them at least) It was a major pain in the @$$!
I now have safe guards in place to prevent this from happening again. I have installed a drobo so my files are more secure and I have time machine running for my backup. I won't be playing with unfamiliar functions anytime soon.
Truncated Wormwood.
As I went through all my jpeg images I noticed a handful didn't survive the recovery very well. They were corrupted. If I tried to open them in Photoshop it would give me an error message stating the files were corrupted. In other words the base binary code that makes up the image was scrambled. I could view the images using "Quick View" though and proceeded to capture the scrambled beauty corruption produced.
The may be screwed up but the end result visually is still pretty cool looking.
Beautiful Corruption.
I've take the scrambled beautifully broken code and compiled it into a larger image you can use. Didn't intend on any of this to happen but it all worked out OK in the end and produced a pretty cool effect to boot.
I guess you can say this is a creative side-effect of my recent computer problems?
Download "Beautiful Corruption Here."
9 comments:
It reminds me of how my old Nintendo games would look sometimes. Then I'd have to take the cart out and blow in it to get it to work properly. Good times!
oh man, i feel for you. this happened to me and apple ended up replacing my motherboard 3 times.
ART PRINTS!
I haven't thought of that in forever, Kris! But you're exactly right.
Thank god you at least got most of the files back. Nothing makes you want to kill people randomly quite so much as losing work. Or is that just me?
I worked tech support at a hard drive company a few years ago that was adding a sync "feature" to some of their external drives. I knew there wouldn't be enough warnings in the world for the damage it can cause, and sure enough in the weeks that followed there were plenty of angry calls from people whose files were deleted when the sync had been set up in ways that produced unexpected and unfortunate results. I kind of wish that any application with a sync feature had a warning that comes up (that the user can eventually disable if they so choose) and says something to the effect of, "This is what your folders and files look like now. When you click the sync button, this is what they will look like when it is finished."
i was going to suggest http://www.carbonite.com/
but looks like you have your own system. be sure to store backups off site too!!!
Undelete software ftw :) I have helped a few people with that, mostly when it comes to photos. As for your corruption image, it makes for a horrible (awesome!) desktop tile! Instantly headache inducing, makes it very hard to see icons unless you look right at them :D
i did something like that, too and lost an entire client folder of information. luckily i had emailed a lot of PDF format previews, so much of the vector data was usable, even though I couldn't edit so easily. but, what a lesson I learned.
i love these. I think if you could do fine-art prints of these, they could represent the conceptual side of the relationship between art and computers. very very cool.
There's even a following for those kind of images, it's usually called "Glitch Art". You can get some free tools on the web to cause them intentionally or use a hex editor and start messing around with the hex-values of a jpeg-file. It's been a while since I messed around with jpegs this way, but you get some pretty funky results from time to time.
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