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Title: Media Tech Podcast Episode 13: DIY Hard Drive Rescue Attempt | Archiving Video for Future Projects

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<v Billy Newman>Hello and thank you very much for listening to this Media Tech podcast.

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<v Billy Newman>up or something i guess over years you're gonna have errors with that system that software that

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<v Billy Newman>piece of firmware that controls that break and seizure of the arm up on the platter and what

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<v Billy Newman>happened in my case is now it thinks it's in a constant state of drop so it sees that arm up

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<v Billy Newman>up on the platter and like in it and it's stuck there it's it's in a break position waiting to

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<v Billy Newman>drop so that it'll release and then restart and what kind of means it's broken right it's not

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<v Billy Newman>like just a little goof it just sort of means whatever was supposed to keep working has stopped

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<v Billy Newman>working and now i'm in this position um so what i did is i was able to borrow um i think i said hex

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<v Billy Newman>head before there's there's like hex there's torque screw there's security screw which i think is

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<v Billy Newman>sort of like a pentagram five angle shape is one of those i think it was a pentagram security screw

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<v Billy Newman>shape that i was able to uh to use to pull out the screws at the top of the drive and a lot of

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<v Billy Newman>those screws are hidden under these stickers or under these uh like metallic stickers to these

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<v Billy Newman>like thermal tape stickers that kind of supposed to cover and conceal everything so you have to

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<v Billy Newman>peel some of that up or to the side and to reveal all of them but i was able to yank up all of those

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<v Billy Newman>i think there were like two different sizes put those into tray on the side i was able to pop open the

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<v Billy Newman>top of the hard drive i'd only ever do this if i thought the hard drive was pretty toast and that

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<v Billy Newman>maybe there was just a little chance i could recover whatever i might have lost on it

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<v Billy Newman>now if i thought it was just a great drive that i have all the time and i have all my great photos

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<v Billy Newman>on there or something then i would not open the top of that drive to expose it to the dusty air

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<v Billy Newman>and uh whatever uh bits of stuff that aren't or that are in my kind of living room area that's not a

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<v Billy Newman>clean room that a hard drive manufacturing place might use probably i've heard the rumor that a lot

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<v Billy Newman>of those hard drive manufacturing cleaning places like you send your drive in to be uh rebuilt or

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<v Billy Newman>something they don't use a clean room either they just you know whatever it's just there's just

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<v Billy Newman>some office with a neon light fluorescent light above you and uh that's about it but i was looking

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<v Billy Newman>at uh yeah like how they do some of the data recovery stuff and so one of the things that i

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<v Billy Newman>was trying to do on the internet was um was take uh take the top off of it and then observe what the

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<v Billy Newman>problem is when i took the top off i saw that the the arm was seized up on the platter and i thought

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<v Billy Newman>okay it's exactly that story i was talking about that it's seized up on top of the platter

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<v Billy Newman>one of the things you could do to try and get it to work again is force the arm off of the platter

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<v Billy Newman>and that's kind of by taking a screwdriver and you kind of put it put it in a little hole socket on

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<v Billy Newman>that arm and then really you just you just kind of like yank it yank it down back to its uh its

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<v Billy Newman>zeroed position and uh i was able to do that i was able to kind of pop it over and it didn't sound

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<v Billy Newman>great when i did that but that's sort of that's sort of what it was and that's also what i've seen

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<v Billy Newman>done to uh but it was when it was in that position uh it seemed like it was kind of all

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<v Billy Newman>set up again i uh tried to not get any dust or hairs or whatever inside although of course it did

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<v Billy Newman>because it just isn't a clean environment and then i was able to hop down the which we call the top

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<v Billy Newman>metal platter that would have been on it i put the chassis thing back on it that kind of plugs into

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<v Billy Newman>the ide port or the sata port and then and i ran that usb into my computer i tried to boot it up

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<v Billy Newman>and nothing happened it just screeched really bad this time oh man it was a disappointment yeah i got

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<v Billy Newman>it all done and then it just started like a screech screech screech screech screech so now the the the

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<v Billy Newman>positive benefit or whatever that break that it initiated was is gone i fixed that and now it's just

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<v Billy Newman>kind of screeching and blasting the platter uh so that was a big success shoot so i think that

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<v Billy Newman>drive is uh toast and i'm not gonna get whatever i lost on it back i think unfortunately kind of like

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<v Billy Newman>i talked about it's not a ton of stuff it is a lot of stuff like a bunch of videos uh probably like an

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<v Billy Newman>hour of video that i had recorded out on the beach out on eastern oregon all of that's gone i don't have

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<v Billy Newman>a backup or anything of it um so i just don't get that anymore i had the photos from those trips those

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<v Billy Newman>are saved into a catalog that was backed up in a couple locations but the video files those are just on

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<v Billy Newman>that hard drive just for like the last month or two months of videos that i'd had uh i think from

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<v Billy Newman>like october and november but most of the ones like were from october uh yeah those are gone so

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<v Billy Newman>good news uh they weren't very good so they weren't very they weren't very interesting or very good or

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<v Billy Newman>very nice uh or stuff that i'm not really missing out on so i kind of feel okay about it but also it's

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<v Billy Newman>a bummer to kind of miss uh miss out on any of the projects that you've uh kind of recorded so

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<v Billy Newman>uh the great thing is is i thought i had lost a bunch of 360 uh video and photo that i had shot

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<v Billy Newman>back in march and april and i didn't lose it i thought that was the only hard drive it was on

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<v Billy Newman>it's actually already duplicated over on another hard drive so i already have that data which is great

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<v Billy Newman>i have the photo data i have a lot of the audio data um but some of the project files of audio stuff

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<v Billy Newman>that i've been working on over the last couple months that disappeared too a lot of backups of a lot

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<v Billy Newman>of the important stuff but some of the stuff i was working on i lost those files um so i was

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<v Billy Newman>going to talk about like a three two one backup strategy and that's sort of how i was able to keep

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<v Billy Newman>a lot of the data that i ended up losing on that four terabyte drive so the the idea is redundancy

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<v Billy Newman>basically that's just sort of as simple as it can be you can make that more complicated by adding

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<v Billy Newman>more drives to it and then more drives to that or you can make it less complicated and there's

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<v Billy Newman>sort of more risk associated with less complicated but uh but it's cheaper i guess is probably the

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<v Billy Newman>benefit most of the time most people and me myself too a lot of the time kind of work on a lap you

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<v Billy Newman>know the laptop and then we have one external drive and then we have a second external drive and that

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<v Billy Newman>really is just a backup of the first external drive and sort of a haphazard way that happens maybe every

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<v Billy Newman>14 days or every seven days or every six months is sort of as bad as it's been for me sometimes

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<v Billy Newman>so there is that kind of haphazardness that happens to it i use time machine time machine or super duper

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<v Billy Newman>those are um those are image like hard drive disk image duplication tools at least super duper is and

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<v Billy Newman>then uh time machine is like an incremental

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<v Billy Newman>And then I guess kind of ultimately the goal would be really, I guess, just to have it around sort of archived for the moment.

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<v Billy Newman>But then to sort of in the future sort of include this into some bigger or longer segments about like videos that I want to try and produce.

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<v Billy Newman>And then it's like, oh, I want to pull up a clip of me doing some, you know, like I'm trying to make a video about camping or something.

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<v Billy Newman>So, OK, well, I got a bunch of these videos that are set up that are really like, you know, documentary shot quality videos that are a few minutes long of some activity taking place that I can kind of pull B-roll from or pull story from.

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<v Billy Newman>And so I'm going to kind of try and do that for some of the stuff coming up.

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<v Billy Newman>But some of it's, you know, like documentary style, whatever about what I'm doing.

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<v Billy Newman>But a lot of it I want to try and be about sort of the view or like as visualizations that are a video of sort of this stuff and the places that I'm going to.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's kind of cool. I'm going through that and really capturing a lot.

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<v Billy Newman>Video takes up a lot of space. You know, you're just kind of like filling up those cards a lot faster, filling up drive space a lot faster.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's cool and it's a little compressed, but I haven't really been able to jump in and throw it in a final cut and start like clipping it together and anything that's a little bit bigger and more meaningful and stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>I kind of try to clean up the clips a little bit so they're kind of prepped or ready to go as the piece.

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<v Billy Newman>But I should kind of maybe go through color correcting too.

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<v Billy Newman>I haven't really done that. I've always maybe done that more as like a project specific activity.

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<v Billy Newman>Like when I pull it into the edit, that's when I'll try to mess with the color or the hue or the saturation or whatever effect I can throw onto the video to sort of tune up the color a little bit.

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<v Billy Newman>But I haven't really done that into the video in advance or just like a B-roll clip in advance of it.

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<v Billy Newman>So maybe I'll wait for putting together some stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm also interested in trying to use some of these longer B-roll clips to kind of be, I guess, yeah, sort of like a visualization for something to go along with like a longer format piece I'm trying to do.

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<v Billy Newman>Well, like I want to try and do some live streaming.

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<v Billy Newman>Like I was talking about Twitch last week.

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<v Billy Newman>I want to try and have some live streaming things set up where, you know, or at least like there's some feed of stuff that kind of comes from my site.

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<v Billy Newman>And so maybe it could be like a set of videos like this is what I'm talking about, sort of some visualizations of some things that I'm doing that are also placed with some live stream thing that I'm talking about.

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<v Billy Newman>Or, you know, just some kind of longer format stuff that I can throw in there and have like a six-hour stream or something set up to go out.

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<v Billy Newman>And that's sort of one of the content pieces that I have.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm not sure.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm trying to use more YouTube, more Twitch, more video-based stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>And I'm kind of interested in that as just like one of the content pieces through the next couple years.

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<v Billy Newman>But also like I'm still really pretty focused on like for work, you know, just the photography stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's part of the content marketing stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>I think like some of the video platforms are going to be pretty useful as they sort of see like, you know, like we've kind of seen like Facebook sort of deteriorate as like a social platform to kind of get information back and forth to each other.

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<v Billy Newman>That's sort of where I would make most of my posts in the past.

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<v Billy Newman>You kind of like dominantly like select Facebook to be that.

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<v Billy Newman>Now, you know, like Twitter's kind of come and gone with some of that stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>And it's always sort of been like maybe a little bit of a second player.

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<v Billy Newman>Instagram seems to be taking the place of that.

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<v Billy Newman>It's sort of like your main thing that you would see as a profile of somebody.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's kind of interesting how it sort of floats around.

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<v Billy Newman>But I think that I've kind of gotten burned out on a lot of social media stuff over the last couple of years.

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<v Billy Newman>So I'm trying to kind of move to more of like an asymmetric model where it's maybe more like this video model or the live streaming model where it's also like pre-recorded live stream.

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<v Billy Newman>So I'm not even like involved in it, but kind of like some of the automated stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>I saw also like the IFTTT, the service, if this, then that, that I'd used for years to do a bunch of the automation stuff to kind of move content around to different sites.

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<v Billy Newman>It's moved to like a pro model.

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<v Billy Newman>So I think you have to pay monthly to get more than three if this, then that, then that app connections or applets, I think they call them.

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<v Billy Newman>So now that's disappeared.

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<v Billy Newman>Or I think it's kind of changing over to a paid model only.

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<v Billy Newman>And so, yeah, I've stopped using, I guess, a while ago.

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<v Billy Newman>But it was useful to have all those tools kind of share some information around.

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<v Billy Newman>And that did a lot of work for me that I wouldn't have done if it wasn't automatic.

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<v Billy Newman>That's for sure.

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<v Billy Newman>Like, you know, sharing stuff over to Tumblr or to 500px or, you know, just kind of duplicate postings for me all over the place.

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<v Billy Newman>So I think for a while I had like four posts going up a day.

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<v Billy Newman>And then that would be duplicated across, you know, a half a dozen different networks of some type.

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<v Billy Newman>So there's really like a lot of information, a lot of content that ended up going up every day from me.

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<v Billy Newman>And IFTTT was a huge part of what allowed me to do that as a service.

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<v Billy Newman>That was really cool.

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<v Billy Newman>If you were using it that in a way that was that in depth and you wanted to pay for it, it would probably be worth it for you if you're kind of operating your business mechanisms with some of that stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>I think that there's also now some good alternatives.

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<v Billy Newman>I think there's like a Zapier.

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<v Billy Newman>Is that like another service that's out there that does something similar to that of kind of connecting app and API functions to each other?

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<v Billy Newman>I think you can kind of do some of those types of tools with that.

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<v Billy Newman>Also, I think maybe some of the services themselves sort of help you do some of those cross-posting things a little bit more than maybe they used to help you do.

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<v Billy Newman>So, but yeah, IFTTT is, I guess, kind of kind of changing its business model once again.

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<v Billy Newman>So maybe that's over.

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<v Billy Newman>It's kind of, I don't know.

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<v Billy Newman>It's fine.

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<v Billy Newman>So I've been out a lot in October.

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<v Billy Newman>I think last time in the podcast, I was talking about a bunch of the stuff that I was doing.

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<v Billy Newman>Well, how would I say it?

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<v Billy Newman>I was getting rained on a lot.

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<v Billy Newman>That's sort of the change up that happens in October.

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<v Billy Newman>So last time I was talking about the different layers and stuff that I would have of like a kind of a base that I was trying to figure out was like a wool layer, a puffy layer or a down layer.

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<v Billy Newman>And then a Gore-Tex layer over that is the shell to kind of keep me dry.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I can take that off pretty lightly, throw it in a bag.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm recording from the truck studio again, and I'm trying out a couple different things.

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<v Billy Newman>I've been messing around with some other audio recording software stuff, like I've talked about a couple times.

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<v Billy Newman>I have some mics set up at home, and I have the kind of audio interface set up at home.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm trying to figure out a way to do some more stuff on the go.

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<v Billy Newman>So that's a little test of what I'm working on today, but a lot of stuff coming out today.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm really trying to push a lot harder here at the end of September and into October for the rest of the year of a lot of the media content that's going on.

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<v Billy Newman>I've been doing it a bunch this summer, and hey, Chuck's coming back.

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<v Billy Newman>What's up, gravel dump truck? See ya.

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<v Billy Newman>But yeah, this summer I've been trying to do a lot to work to get together some new photos, some new stuff to try and kind of build a base and then move from there a little bit.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm really excited to try and put up a bunch of the older portfolio photographs that I have, and I was really happy to work on the website a lot this summer.

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<v Billy Newman>I kind of redesigned a bit of that.

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<v Billy Newman>You check that out.

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<v Billy Newman>Tell me what you think of it.

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<v Billy Newman>It's at billynewmanphoto.com, and I try to strip out a lot of the unnecessary parts, and I'm trying to kind of hone it down a little bit so it's a little cleaner.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's going well.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm trying to set it up a little bit more so it's stream-based, if that would make sense.

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<v Billy Newman>You know, how we've kind of moved toward, like, the Facebook stream, the Twitter stream, the Instagram stream.

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<v Billy Newman>So I'm trying to kind of move it to where, like I talked about on the podcast before, where a lot of the media stuff that I put together, the video clips, the photographs and stuff,

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<v Billy Newman>that wherever they do end up going, whatever sites I am populating, like Flickr and Instagram and Facebook and all the rest,

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<v Billy Newman>that that's kind of what's shown on the website or, you know, how the website's going to try and automatically pull that stuff and ingest that into the website so I don't have to do it as much.

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<v Billy Newman>And that's kind of been fun, actually, or it's kind of been cool doing that.

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<v Billy Newman>But the thing that I need to do, the part that's still left, is I need to go through my photo portfolio, kind of the long-term portfolio of images I have.

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<v Billy Newman>And I'm trying to go through and select what would be good to show the work that I've done so far.

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<v Billy Newman>And I'm trying to do that in a way that's more developed than I have before.

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<v Billy Newman>I've gone through and I've selected, I've kind of picked the photos that I like a lot.

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<v Billy Newman>But I'm trying to do a couple different things.

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<v Billy Newman>And, hey, another truck.

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<v Billy Newman>Man, that looks like a few tons of gravel in the back.

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<v Billy Newman>So what I want to do, though, with the photo stuff and what I've kind of been trying to work on a little bit is to go through Instagram or to go through Facebook and to try and select my favorite photographs,

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<v Billy Newman>but then also to select the ones that have been sort of chosen by the market.

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<v Billy Newman>That's the other idea that I'm trying to go for.

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<v Billy Newman>What do people actually like of the pictures that I take?

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<v Billy Newman>What are the ones that people seem to connect with the most?

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<v Billy Newman>So in one level, I'm trying to find all those photos and then I'm trying to sort of remake those photos or re-edit them or, you know, kind of re-publish them in a way that looks sort of new

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<v Billy Newman>and that's cleaned up a little bit in the way that I can edit and create stuff now.

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<v Billy Newman>So part of the step is that.

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<v Billy Newman>And then the other part is to sort of learn what people like of the photos I make.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I want to go out and try and make more of that or try and dig in a little deeper on the part that seems to get the most traction

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<v Billy Newman>or that seems to be seen as the most valuable.

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<v Billy Newman>So in one of those, like what I've noticed, well, yeah, what I've noticed anecdotally so far is that the low light stuff for the astrophotography,

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<v Billy Newman>the night photography, the landscapes where there's stars matched in the background seem to really perform really well.

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<v Billy Newman>And I really love trying to take those photos.

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<v Billy Newman>And I know a lot about how to lay out the stars that I would want in that photo.

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<v Billy Newman>Or, you know, I know where the stars are.

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<v Billy Newman>I know how to kind of line some of the landscape stuff up and I know how to expose for it.

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<v Billy Newman>So that's a part that I'd really like to get into and push for more of what seems to be a draw of the photos that I take.

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<v Billy Newman>But on the other side of that too, I really want to do more fine art photography.

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<v Billy Newman>That's what I really liked and was kind of drawn into when I first started taking photos.

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<v Billy Newman>Even way back on film before I knew how at all.

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<v Billy Newman>But I really like the fine art side of it where you could go through and try and put the nicest elements together or, you know, try and put a landscape together.

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<v Billy Newman>But I liked that side of it a lot more than the product or production side of it, in a sense at least.

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<v Billy Newman>And I've always been really interested in the fine art photographers that are out there or the fine art landscape photographers where you see some of the advanced kind of work that they put together.

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<v Billy Newman>Some of the ways that they're able to put real pieces, real elements into a photograph.

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<v Billy Newman>It's always seemed so cool when you're really able to be in tune with that sort of stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>And I don't know, I've just always loved the old landscapes and, you know, old fine art images from the past.

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<v Billy Newman>So that's kind of the stuff that I'm trying to get into.

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<v Billy Newman>But organizing this stuff has been interesting.

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<v Billy Newman>So I'm trying to use this program called Scrivener.

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<v Billy Newman>And maybe I talked about it before or maybe a while back I talked about it.

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<v Billy Newman>But Scrivener is kind of interesting.

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<v Billy Newman>It's this, and I talked about it yesterday, I know, but it's this writing application that I'm trying to get into.

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<v Billy Newman>And it seems like it would take a few tutorials to really figure out.

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<v Billy Newman>It's a little bit more in-depth.

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<v Billy Newman>Hey, gravel truck.

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<v Billy Newman>It's a little bit, it's quite a bit more in-depth than something like Word.

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<v Billy Newman>Even though Microsoft Word is sort of an industry standard that everyone has sort of learned on for the last 15, 20 years,

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<v Billy Newman>it really is a little bit more specific to like an essay, or at least the way I've learned it.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's more specific to an essay format of word processing where you're trying to get a page accomplished

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<v Billy Newman>and you're trying to edit through that or you're trying to edit through kind of a single document.

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<v Billy Newman>And Scrivener is sort of laid out in a way where there's a few more pieces on the side of it

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<v Billy Newman>where it's really supposed to be a research application where you're supposed to kind of compile different documents of text research

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<v Billy Newman>or photo research and you kind of put that together and then you're able to sort of assemble a larger writing project from there.

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<v Billy Newman>Which I think is kind of interesting.

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<v Billy Newman>Like I'd figure like book authors would use a writing program like this to work on their character outlines

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<v Billy Newman>and their story outlines, their plot summaries,

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<v Billy Newman>and then they would work that into the manuscript that they would make into their book.

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