Porcupine Tree Review

Let's start with me: I'm a metal fan, for the most part, but I have varied tracks on my playlist, from Slayer's Disciple and Born of Osiris' Abstract Art, to Seal's Kiss From A Rose and Aqua's Candyman. "Heh, not much of a metal fan", you say? Admittedly, there's more of the former and less of the latter type of music, but what I am trying to emphasize is that my views are not bigoted or uninformed by lack of exposure.
Having said that, I recently heard about Porcupine Tree from a couple of friends ("What? NOW?" said the PT fans in amazement), but when I listened to the songs they recommended, I thought "meh". In fact I would have closed it there, but as usual, I had nothing to do at office today, so I browsed my coworkers PCs through the LAN until I chanced upon the PT discography.
Fastforward about 3 hours, to where I'm completing the last album, having heard only about 6 songs which sounded at least original, though 'good' would be a stretch. I don't wanna start a whalefest here now (If there ever will be any comments on this blog *sigh*), which means don't begin ripping Slayer or Aqua or anyone else, because:

1. Frankly, I'm not a rabid neanderthal when it comes to even my favourite music. Go ahead, insult Lamb Of God, see if I care
2. Just because I'm one writing the blog against the many who would tear at my throats, it by no means implies I'm alone in my opinion

Having made the right apologetic noises and little politenesses, here goes -
PORCUPINE TREE IS OVERRATED, IN FACT THEY PRETTY MUCH SUCK!

Now here's the unforgivable bigotry - I would much rather choose this:

Cecil, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>

via Wikimedia Commons

Over this:

© Jörgens.mi

Even if Araya is a sort of sellout.

Cover Operation

You can only render so much in one day. After that, you start browsing the office LAN looking for movies saved on your co-workers' hard drives. But watching a movie presents some problems:

1. Because of the row arrangement of desks in our office, its hard to quickly minimize the movie AND open something else to look like you're working (only hiding from my boss matters, I really don't care if anyone else notices; in fact, I secretly cherish the thought of presenting myself as something of a badass rebel to other minions)
2. Since I was done with Revit for the day, I really couldn't use the "it's rendering in the background" excuse for watching a movie in the meantime, unless...

I used a tried and tested (at least personally) method - Print Screen your Revit window while it's rendering and set it as your wallpaper, then switch off desktop icons. It looks like a render is going on in the background, while you can watch the movie (I suggest not watching it fullscreen, so that people can see that you're rendering and really can't do anything else etc.)
Since no one around me knew Revit, I could get away with "it takes a lot of time on this damn slow PC" if they asked, but no one did even that. Here's the PrtScrn:

Use it yourself! All the kids are doing it!

I watched A Scanner Darkly until it was time to leave. I think my cover was better than Arctor's...

Art for slow PCs

A few days ago, I was rendering a couple of views in Revit Architecture, and it was really slow - slow enough for the little rendering time window to leave a trail behind it if i clicked and dragged it around the rendering pane. I executed a couple of pieces of ART (Art Rendered by Trails) which I'm quite proud of, even if my smug-shit colleagues smirked behind my back:

By the time I was done rendering, I had ten works of ART. As you can see, there are limitations because of the colour and size of the window, as well as which side it gets dragged from, resulting in a darker and lighter shade. This kind of art, to my knowledge, is limited only to slow PCs, though probably is possible while any program is executing a memory intensive process.
If I can build up a small fan following, I'm ready to consider working on this full time...