100% keep the tapes. The future is obscure. You can never predict exactly how you feel, and what you may value, let alone how others will feel about your work. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by keeping the mini-DVs.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:33 PM, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Adam Quirk > <[email protected]<quirk%40wreckandsalvage.com>> > wrote: > > I'm in the middle of a move, and came across the box of mini-DV tapes > I've > > accumulated over the years. I'm seriously considering chucking it all. > > Will I, or anyone, really ever want to watch two-hundred hours of random > > clips from my life and work? > > Almost certainly not. > But 1 minute of it could be the most valuable thing you've ever kept. > Don't toss'em, you'll regret it. The physical space required is > trivial, but the data is irreplaceable.. > > > There's a part of me that wants to keep everything, every second that I > > shot. But there's another part of me that knows I already cut and > uploaded > > and shared the best parts of these tapes. > > What was "best" at the time may not be so in the future. > > Dave. > > -- =The Plot to Save Socrates= "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly =The Silk Code= "delivers on its promises" - The New York Times published 3 Sept 2009, new nonfiction =New New Media= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
