Party By JenSF
Music By Max Vangeli
Photos By Damien of Sapientphoto.com
Music By Max Vangeli
Photos By Damien of Sapientphoto.com
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Rajinder Dua, San Francisco, CA - Review
Damien is a fabulous photographer. His work is ahead of it's time...incredibly creative. Damien photographed all my fundraising events over the last two months for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He is passionate about his work and about charities. He donated his time for a great cause. Thanks Damien...you are truly a shining star! Five Stars!
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
The Drobo
A little of over a year ago I purchased a new camera, a Nikon D300. A camera I love so much, I started taking 10,000+ pictures a month. Major problems arisen from this because now I have 80+ Gig for images to store some where. My previous attempts failed miserably by mistakenly purchasing anything with the (WD) or Western Digital name on it. If you have one return it as fast as possible. When it comes to fast, scalable, reliable, and dependable internal and external hard drive WD is what NOT to do.
I had two of the WD MyBooks go down with in 2 weeks of each other. The second was new and what going to be the back up for the first but both started acting funny and became unresponsive and left all my beautiful images and designs from college trapped on them.
Oh but wait! Back up I forgot one part, The Drobo.
The Drobo is a product developed by US Data Robotics located in the Silicon Valley of Northern California. The Drobo is essentially a really smart hard drive. But that would be understating its potential. The Drobo allows it's users to purchase and install any SATA hard drive in any size or manufacturer for a current maximum of 4 - 2 Terabyte (TB) drives for and total of 5.5 TB of usable and supposed redundant safe data storage.
I did some weeks of research and found at the time Nov-Dec of 2008 that there was not other cost effective way to buy and maintain a scalable onsite data storage array. I found that the unit was pretty slow due to it's only interface USB 2.0, but the bad outweighed to good in this case so I went to MacWorld in January of 2008 and purchased to last Drobo and Drobo Share they had at their sales booth.
After taking it home I realized the I need some drives to install in it and they need to be big, fast, and reliable. So I went to amazon and purchased 5 1 TB Seagate Barracudas. This would max out the current capabilities of the Drobo and give me almost 3 TB of accessible storage for all my wonder and beautiful photos.
I received the drives I ordered slid them into their slots 1 - 4 and fired up the Drobo for the fist time. Then I proceeded to copy /back-up all the data was on my crappy and unstable WD drives I mentioned before.
Long Story Short(er) -
#00 (Jan 08) Drobo Purchased (Mar 09 - Put into service with 4 x 1 TB Seagate Barracuda SATA Hard Drives ($250 ea)
#01 (May 08) The Drobo had (1) drive failure within 3 months of putting the unit into service
#02 (Jun 08) The Drobo overheats and dies needing replacement ( Drobo #01 down)
#03 (Jun 08) The Drobo is back up and running just fine! (Drobo #02 delivered and Restored)
#04 (Jun 08) Data Robotics recognized that the Drobo has to faulty equipment and parts and offers a replacement (This is Drobo #02 down)
#05 (Jun 08) The Drobo is back up and running just fine! (Drobo #03 delivered and Restored)
#06 (Jun 08) The Drobo indicates the drive in the Slot #01 position at the top has failed and need replacement
#07 (July 08) The failed drive was replaced with the same quality part (1 TB Seagate Barracuda $250)
#08 (July 08) The Drobo failed to perform what is called a (Re-Layout), will not mount with the three remaining drives with 1.93 TB of data
#09 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it
#09 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it
• DiskWarrior 4.1.1 ($100) - Failed
• Data Rescue II ($100) - Failed
• Drive Genius ($100) - Failed
• Tech Tool Pro 4 ($100) - Failed
• Data Rescue II ($100) - Failed
• Drive Genius ($100) - Failed
• Tech Tool Pro 4 ($100) - Failed
#10 (July 08) The Drobo melts down and dies (Takes 7 Months to finish diagnosis and get another Drobo sent to us)
#11 (Mar 09) Drobo is sent back for replacement again ( This is Drobo #03 down)
#12 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it
#11 (Mar 09) Drobo is sent back for replacement again ( This is Drobo #03 down)
#12 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it
• DiskWarrior, Data Rescue II, Drive Genius, and Tech Tool Pro 4 all failed to recover, rebuild, or copy the compromised disks
• Hundreds of Disk Malfunctions (See Pic Below)
#13 (Apr 09) Additional Tech Support efforts after a few email exchanges and a conference calls with the VP of Customer Service and a Tier 3 Support Engineer
#14 (Apr 09) I just installed a Read-Only Drobo firm ware verson that will help stabilize my drobo enough to get the data off of it.
#15 (Apr 09) The Drobo back up and running be still will NOT mount but DiskWarrior is able to rebuild a preview of the Damaged / Corrupted Disk Image.
After rebuild I get this message from Diskwarrior:"DiskWarrior has successfully built a new directory for the disk named "MediaStorage." The new directory cannot replace the original directory because of a disk malfunction. A disk malfunction is a failure of or damage to any mechanical component of the disk device, or any component connected to it. The malfunction will likely worsen. Therefore, recovering your files from the DiskWarrior Preview as quickly as possible is essential. It is highly recommended that you backup all of your data from the preview disk."
#16 It is Currently April 4th 2009 the Disk Image is still stable and we are attempting to transfer/back-up on folder 676.21 GB which the computer indicates will take between 425 to 3000+ house to complete. it is 5:53 AM and I am going to bed. We shall see what happen when we get back...
To Be continued...
Monday, March 30, 2009
We Do Weddings!
Damien Miller and Jaun Carlos Pometta have combined their photographic skill to bring you one of the most
skilled, thoughtful, creative, sincere, inspiring, and fun photography teams around.
We want to book your wedding today please visit our dedicated wedding site Eye of Passion and contact us when you, your family or friends are having a wedding soon.
skilled, thoughtful, creative, sincere, inspiring, and fun photography teams around.
We want to book your wedding today please visit our dedicated wedding site Eye of Passion and contact us when you, your family or friends are having a wedding soon.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Todays Word... Chillax:
Chillax:
Def: A state of relaxation and refreshing coolness. To be cool and relaxed.
I asked my girlfriend to chillax for a second.
Thanks Asia for this great new word I will use it everyday!
Def: A state of relaxation and refreshing coolness. To be cool and relaxed.
I asked my girlfriend to chillax for a second.
Thanks Asia for this great new word I will use it everyday!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Never Ever Do An...
Advice Given to Sydney from fellow actor and mentor John Cassavetes on set
...We are friends but, Never ever do an artistic favor for a friend.
Loan a friend some money, be there for them is every other way but do not give them any favors, because you
must have one area in your life that there is no room for compromise.
Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009
...We are friends but, Never ever do an artistic favor for a friend.
Loan a friend some money, be there for them is every other way but do not give them any favors, because you
must have one area in your life that there is no room for compromise.
Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009
"The Lens..."
The lens sees what it sees, and it is entirely neutral in its gaze.
Its not looking for my best or my worst and there is not guarantee that it will capture something truly representative.
It can't mirror the self completely but I do know it can tell when I am thinking, and I know that it can tell when there is something
I am trying to hide...
Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009
Its not looking for my best or my worst and there is not guarantee that it will capture something truly representative.
It can't mirror the self completely but I do know it can tell when I am thinking, and I know that it can tell when there is something
I am trying to hide...
Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Change In Progress
As a person of color with mixed heritage, I am so glad that our nation now has a positive role model, for all of us!
There is so much we must do as a nation, and as a people.
The only way we can face the upcoming challenges is if we can continue to show the world and ourselves that we CARE about the future.
But not just our future but everyone's future.
That we care about the planet, and that we show that we are tired of war and oppression.
We have successfully voted for "CHANGE", we have successfully answered to hope's cry.
Now we must back up our new found president because he can not do it alone!
Believe in change...
Believe in yourself...
Believe in this Nation...
There is so much we must do as a nation, and as a people.
The only way we can face the upcoming challenges is if we can continue to show the world and ourselves that we CARE about the future.
But not just our future but everyone's future.
That we care about the planet, and that we show that we are tired of war and oppression.
We have successfully voted for "CHANGE", we have successfully answered to hope's cry.
Now we must back up our new found president because he can not do it alone!
Believe in change...
Believe in yourself...
Believe in this Nation...
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Sunday, November 16, 2008
RosenMunns Fashion Editorial for 944 = Capture One
I have been struggling with my photography workflow over the past few years since I have gone pro. I currently us Apple's Aperture for my cataloging and processing my RAW images, but Capture One is so far ahead of the competition I will be hard pressed not to buy it tonight. The program is easy because it is intuitive, and intuitive means productive, productive means more money in the bank.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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