sharky h. towers.com

I'm an artist, photographer and musician living in Santa Barbara County, California. I have several music projects including "Jaws", a rock project with former and current members of RKL, Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, Mad Caddies, King City & others. I also have a solo project tentatively called "1976". I record in my home studio which consists of gear & instruments I've collected in the past couple decades. Sometimes I produce, record, mix and write songs for other artists and friends. I shoot pictures using my Mamiya 6, Nikons D70 & F100 and a variety of esoteric 120 & 35mm film cameras (Agfa, Braun, Holga, Lomo). I also shoot moving pictures on a Canon HV20 and on my collection of 8mm cameras. I'm involved with several Websites/RSS feeds. A few of them are Liberation Media, Jaws Attacks!, Drunken Audible and SharkyTowers.com.

June 17

Another Drive Down

One of my 3 Lacie Firewire drives went down yesterday. That’s the 2nd HD in the last 3 months. Incredibly annoying. My hope is that it is just the power supply, but I think it may be the drive.

My faith in firewire drives is waning rapidly. My faith in drives period is fading. I’m not sure the fact that 4 failing drives out of an estimated 30 I’ve had in the last 10 years is within the threshold of acceptability.