storage is cheap. put em on an external hard drive. if all your stuff is on the cloud, download a data dump every so often. then in 20 years you can go on a little nostalgia trip
not to icloud, but to a flashdrive. a longer dirtier process to archive your life in this way, but i am dedicated to the project of documenting my life. i imagine myself decades from now, old and infirm, bedridden, finally scrolling back through the folders of old hangouts, vacations, walks to the park, exes, friends long past, and being delighted to relive my youth through my own eyes. i imagine the effort will be somehow worth it to be remembered and witnessed in this way, even if i am the only one witnessing and remembering
everything digitized will go away and all your external hard drives will corrupt. they will try to call you a hoarder but, you’re the only one that’s gonna have anything left. don’t let an outside source tell you what/when/where/how you can have something
and don’t complain about the bulk
I’m a digital hoarder, so even though I have these backed up on drives in my house, I find it necessary to carry on me at all times a thumb drive with all my files before ~THE CLOUD~
- my entire teenage mp3 library
- ripped episodes of true blood formatted for playback on iPod video
- code for websites I made in 2001
- like a thousand photoshop ‘grunge brushes’
i love hearing that girl sing her heart out in the shower through the bathroom vent. or the guy hocking insane loogies all the time. the alternating smells of delicious homemade chinese food or something totally burning in the oven… am always wondering if its the same kitchen!
