Another full day of music video work. I must scale back my ambitions a little. Patience is often seen as a virtue, but one of my flaws is that I'm too patient, and will doggedly and time-consumingly pursue something to its end, when my time might be better spent doing something else.
In the late 1990s I worked for two years on a game design, The Heart of Aorkhan, which would have been the world's biggest role playing game a the time, bigger in monsters and artefacts than even Final Fantasy VII, yet with an utterly boring plot, and just about unplayable on computers of the era. I perhaps completed half of it singlehandedly in two years, but gave up. This is one of very few projects I've given up on, I almost always finish everything. In this case, I should have given up earlier, its mountain was too high.
Here though, I can merely scale back. I can fairly easily make basic videos for each song, but of course, I want to add more, make them more artistic, human, better than basic. The eternal balance is between time spent on one project and time taken from a future one.
Today I compiled the new video for 'I Can Heal', 'Smashing My House Of Cards', and 'Fear is Everywhere'. Of the others, tweaks and small changes were made. 'How Lonely' is a simple lyric video. 'Breakfast of Delight' is similar, but I've added a few little bonus elements to match the mood changes in this joyous song, then again a related video for 'Walls (And How To Hit Them)' which uses Lego characters to augment a basic loop that mimics the album artwork.
'Tainted Pain' echoes the themes and look of 'The Parents in the Walls' and uses a healing cross (from 'I Can Heal') to match the drum beats; this is one way I can easily add to these. It's extremely simple but looks rather nice.
I also hurriedly made the Spotify Canvas animations for today's new releases, and quickly announced them. This album, and this single are my best mixed and mastered, I humbly think, than anything before. Hopefully, everything will get better and continue to do so.
In other news, I've worked out more of the cabinet designs. I'd thought about bolting the brackets onto the MDF, but I think that 4mm pan-head wood screws would be better, as strong, and look neater than trying to drill lots of holes for bolts. I tested rawl plug and screw sizes. I think plans there are complete.
Of the videos, 'Daytime Teevee' and 'More' are the only ones that are untouched. These will also be simple animations based on the album art I think, though I have a more complex idea for 'More'. I had always planned, I always plan, for future and more complex videos, should I ever have the time and incentive. An 'Official Video' doesn't have to be the only Official Video, there were two for George Harrison's 'Got My Mind Set on You'.
In culinary art, I'm making an experimental cross between Staffordshire Oatcakes and a famous New York breakfast pancake, a mix of yeast-batter and beaten egg for an ultimate light batter. I rarely mention food in public, but I love cooking and treat it like my other arts.
Onwards with joy.