Most of the wall plans are complete now. I'm starting to slow down and relax, as at the end of any project. After 30 minutes of this I started to draw up a list. One thing to do is photograph/scan my last few paintings, this will take a day. Graphics are in for the London show, so I've promoted that a little. I really need to make a video or two for it, at least to talk about some of the paintings, which is tricky when I don't have any of them.
I also have a mind to update Prometheus, adding the modulator processing that I added to Argus a few weeks ago. Argus has the English built in; the strings are typed into the code. In Prometheus, all text is in an external file. This makes translation a lot easier, but it struck me that I'll probably never translate Prometheus, and it certainly makes editing the program more awkward. Every message, error, icon, is a number so it takes time to work out what they say. I have half a mind to change the code to include text. I'm wondering if this has a memory dimension. The text should take up the same space, of course, but it would probably move from dynamic to stack memory - would that cause problems?
A new speaker arrived from Amazon for my Nantwich exhibition, a Sonkir 3W Speaker. It is USB or Li-ion battery powered, and can play from 3.5mm jack plug, or USB stick, or microSD card, or bluetooth, so a master of all things (most speakers limit to one thing or another). This is ideal for art sound installations; it can be left plugged in at low power and the audio will loop forever, and they are small and cheap. I can also connect it to my Microkorg and use it as a temporary speaker. The sound quality is good enough for a 6cm speaker.
The book with it was Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols; a romp of opinion and hyperbole which, of course, never fails to entertain, though not necessarily enlighten. Reading it makes me want to write a philosophy book in a week, but I feel I'd need to include a smidgen of reason, or a few references.
