Month: March 2008

Recovery

I’m back up and running thanks to two things:

1.  The guys at The Mac Shack in Boulder who understood my situation and for a small rush charge installed a new 160gb hard drive in my Powerbook in one day for a parts and labor total of less than $400 (and two trips to Boulder).  I’m glad they’re planning to open a store in Fort Collins – although I don’t want to have to see them for this kind of thing again anytime soon.

2. Apple’s “Time Machine” back-up system (part of the latest operating system).  All I had to do was boot off the system disk and go to the Time Machine application. There was a selection to restore the entire system from back-up – which warns you that it will wipe your disk and set it up as of the date of the back-up you choose, but that’s exactly what I wanted. One click of a button and 2 hours later (after the restoration process was complete) it was like nothing bad had ever happened. Only I now have about 60gb of hard-drive space I didn’t have before due to the upgrade in size of the new drive.

Recovery

I’m back up and running thanks to two things:

1.  The guys at The Mac Shack in Boulder who understood my situation and for a small rush charge installed a new 160gb hard drive in my Powerbook in one day for a parts and labor total of less than $400 (and two trips to Boulder).  I’m glad they’re planning to open a store in Fort Collins – although I don’t want to have to see them for this kind of thing again anytime soon.

2. Apple’s “Time Machine” back-up system (part of the latest operating system).  All I had to do was boot off the system disk and go to the Time Machine application. There was a selection to restore the entire system from back-up – which warns you that it will wipe your disk and set it up as of the date of the back-up you choose, but that’s exactly what I wanted. One click of a button and 2 hours later (after the restoration process was complete) it was like nothing bad had ever happened. Only I now have about 60gb of hard-drive space I didn’t have before due to the upgrade in size of the new drive.

CRASH!

Hello,

On Saturday, my hard drive terminally crashed. Luckily, I have everything backed up, but it will be 3-6 days before I can get the drive replaced. The only issue should be delayed email responses. If you need me, call 970-493-1070 and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Thanks for your patience.

-Kevin

Building Creative Businesses Expo

Don’t forget the 2008 Building Creative Business Expo in Denver this Saturday!

I’ll be presenting my NO LAME NAMES: Trademark Law and Branding presentation from 10:00 – 11:15.

I’ll be presenting my Copyright and the Business of Creativity presentation from 1:00-2:15.

Complete Workshop Schedule: Click Here 

2008 National Professional Visual Artist Study

Dear Professional Visual Artist or Arts Community Supporter, (I’m terribly sorry about the impersonal greeting…)

I’m working with Alyson Stanfield, leading art business coach and author of the new book I’d Rather Be In The Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion on a fun project – an international study of the state of the professional art business from the view of the artist.

We’re conducting an on-line study so all you need to do is click the link below and spend about 5 minutes completing the survey. Your information is confidential and we will only use your OPTIONAL contact information to notify you if you win either a FREE copy of Alyson’s book (several will be given), or 2 free hours of my legal consulting time.

Click here to participate in the study.

We would love your participation in this exciting project and encourage you to forward this message on to your professional artist friends. The more artists that respond, the better (and more interesting) the data.

My sincere thanks in advance for your participation.