Spent the morning finalising Noise Station v1.23. One addition was checking the screen size and setting the windows to default locations if this changes between sessions, or else choosing the preferred user settings (usually the default anyway) if not. I also did change one aspect of the audio processing. The High Pass Filter didn't sound right so I've adjusted it to work as in Prometheus and SFXEngine.
In the afternoon, I drilled the Kratos cabinet doors for hinges, and sprayed the outer side gold. Many thin coats would look better, but applying this is nigh on impossible with such a cluttered array of components, and doing this may simply have pool paint in the same way. Overall the results look as expected and it is on track. I started to paint the hinges with mars black oil paint. This works well, far better than acrylic paint on metal, although it will take overnight to dry and will need several layers.
After the intense work on Noise Station I need to work on art, but I need a firm plan for this. I must remind myself of the transience of life. Not one hour of life should be wasted on the trivial.
Most people work in a job in which, if they didn't do it, someone else would take over and do the same job. Their replacement may even do a better job than them, which is worse. Why do a job like this? For money, they would say, to survive. Survive for what? Survive to pay the bills, to keep doing their job, until they die. If this is the plan they may as well end their lives now and save time!
Art is different. For an artist, every act is something that only they can do. If an artist stops their work, nobody can replace them. Nobody can replace Mozart, or Beethoven, or even Einstein. Science, philosophy, and other jobs have this property; I class all such jobs as art here. To do such a job should be everyone's aim. Of course, some jobs are more specialised than others, the difference between these two types of job is not stark, sometimes a common job is something that only you are able to do because you are the only option at the time, but the general principle still stands. The more unique a job to you, the more valuable and more important it is.
