A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM MR. LOBO, VIA OUTER SPACE INTERNATIONAL AND PATREON:
"Last week our Cinema Insomnia Hard Drive -- donated by you the fans -- died. It contained more than 3 entire new shows worth of raw footage, promos, project files, and more, including our Season 16 Finale.
Producer/Editor Aaron M. Lane took it in and the shop found it had a damaged USB controller. After it was replaced, the drive showed up but a file structure couldn't be seen. It was then sent to their office to try some more advanced Software and Recovery methods, before resorting to hardware recovery.
We hoped it wouldn't be so bad that we would need to go the $1000 to $1500 lab recovery route.
Aaron almost asked for it back to recover it himself, but with something this important we figured we'd hold our breath and leave it to the experts.
It turned out that a defective USB part fried everything. But hindsight is 20/20.
It seems now very likely we can get it all back. It was just a matter of what it will cost.
If the episodes aren't lost, they are worth thousands in time, talent, and resources. Cast and Crew traveled great distances to work for free and help us pull off this season on the smallest of budgets. The very least we can do is have a finished product so they can see their hard work and enjoy the fruits of their labor and the satisfaction of a finished product.
If it were just me alone...I could try and do it all over again. However, even if that were the case--you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice...some aspects you can't ever reproduce. But we could try.
If Mr. Lobo has to wash cars we'll make this work somehow.
Things are rough all over and we all have crushing real world stuff to deal with on top of this...and certainly it's not the end of the world. However, we feel what we do is important and important to try to save.
The 'Advanced Recovery' place ran diagnostic & recovery and today told us what they found.
It's not good news.
Once they repaired the USB controller and ran further diagnostics, they found that the drive arm and needle had been fried, so it can't read any data off of it & on a drive like that with proprietary firmware, they have to replace the parts with parts from an identical drive, so they're having to send it off to a lab in Austin, Texas which will take 3-5 days to get there & the recovery work averages $1000 - $1500.
Luckily we anticipated the worst case scenario, even while hoping for the best.
Aaron authorized the work and should hear from Austin by the end of the week.
We had $60 in donations today from Cinsomaniacs like you! And $50 from Kelly and $25 from Glen! $10 from Robert and another $25 from Scott! And some change from the couch cushions...
So, adding everything up we have little under $200 towards the cause so far. A big chunk of our monthly Patreon proceeds will go towards this going forward.
Thank you for helping us make--and save our Season!
- Mr. Lobo"
Please do assist Mr. Lobo in this oh-so-important cause.
One can join Patreon and pledge on behalf of Cinema Insomnia as little as $1 a month: https://www.patreon.com/Cinemainsomnia.
In addition, one can donate whatever generous amount one can spare to...
http://www.paypal.me/MisterLobo or ... http://www.paypal.me/Lanefilml.td.
Cinema Insomnia and Mr. Lobo are way too important to ignore in this time of crisis. Again, please help remedy this grave setback and roll misunderstood-movie history back onto the reel. Thank you!!!
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