Disaster strikes!

Last April, thieves broke into our apartment and stole, among other things, my portable pc, my video camera and two external hard disk drives, one with 1TB of space on it. About 50 hours of videos which where ready to be uploaded to the website went with them, including the rest of the videos for the film project and also those for the still life.

I am waiting for the insurance company to get their butts in gear and send me my check, but I doubt that it will even come close to being enough to replace everything I have lost, and of course the videos cannot be replaced since the thieves took the back up disk too. However I will probably be able to get another video camera and maybe a hard disk and hopefully a media recorder which will allow me to dispense with the need for a bulky portable pc and I will do all the editing on the desktop, which they did not get. I can do the narration in the edit because I don't usually make the narration while I am painting. (They also got my Edirol sound box too.)

Until then I will revert to publishing the newsletter in the old print format, and will update it with video when I have the capability again. What a bummer! The lesson from this: have really good insurance and upload everything raw for safekeeping.

I am starting a series of new still-lifes, so there will be plenty to shoot with the still camera and eventually redo videos of.

To see what I have up so far go to:

http://www.omptnl.com