- 哦，太感人了。 汶川的孩子们，你们走好。。。
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- Richard Rogers comes to AA. 22nd Jan.
My 2nd big name lecture to attend after MVRDV.
woot.
- I want a piece of SG.
I listen to Gold 90FM online.
I'm not in SG.
I get a streaming problem.
I hear chopped music.
I hook up a proxy.
I hear music.
I get a piece of SG.
- Interesting, London's Kiss FM practices censorship. JayZ's song from American Gangster found itself missing a few S***s.
Back to work!
the serpentine 2007
A piece of work from last week's Media Studies, learning to sculpt in MudBox and have them modelled on the CnC Machine. Studying reptile skins and sculpting in MudBox.
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- Looking back at the photos I've taken since I arrived in London, I suddenly remember how much I love and miss photography.
taken atop no. 1 poultry
No. 1 Poultry by James Stirling was one of the stops during the evening walk conducted during the first week. Though not wildly received by the group, I thought it to be something like coffee 'gao' a.k.a espresso, largely an acquired taste with much beauty to be perceived behind the 'hideous geometrical shapes'.
Its been awhile since I last posted, since lessons at the AA has rhythmically started and the necessary evils (read:startup costs) at home have almost been squared away, perhaps photography would start to creep back into existence.
- Vista is indeed a bugger especially when you use programs that are not exactly mainstream.
I searched online extensively for a cure to Monkey's installation FAQ but to no avail, so I'm posting my experience here so that google's spider may pick it up and hopefully be of some help to someone who experiences the same problem.
Download Monkey as you would normally from McNeel Wiki. Run the installer and when you fire up Rhino, you will see that Monkey does not appear on the toolbar next to Help as it should normally be. Do a search in the Program Files folder on your computer and look for the Monkey.rhp file. Drag this file into an already opened Rhino and that should install it successfully. Many thanks to David Rutten for his help in this matter.
That being put away, some quick samples from this week's scripting lessons.
I am still trying to get my Belkin N1 Wireless USB Adapter to work on my vista running PC. So if anyone has drivers for that please do give me a headsup.
- 1 Vampire Bite, another Zombie bite and then an invitation to join a world war later, I sat back and then it hit me. Something was strangely familiar. What difference is Facebook from World of Warcraft?
WOWInsider.com recently has an article published on the 'evilness' of Blizzard 'exploiting' players. Where the company has perfected the science of the reward tree, keeping players coming back, is this phenomenon an unethical act on Blizzard's part? Given the choice players have over their time, I would say Blizzard isn't exactly threatening to drop them in a volcano unless they play.
But the interesting thing concerning Facebook and its hugely, no, IMMENSELY, insanely popular following, it largely follows the same textbook strategy WoW utilises. And not only does it reward players through 'vampire bitings' and 'zombie army attacks', but it also in the process, pull unsuspecting people(read: me) into the chain of events. Just like in WoW when you need a Crescent of Silver Icon to up that shadow damage, you need to run endless Heroics to get those badges and in the process find yourself and another 3 players spending hours at the game; in facebook you can't up your Zombie rank lest you 'bite'(recruit more friends) gaining 'power' in the process to attack.
But wait, there is more to Facebook because these games, ALL of them serve one purpose beyond bringing users back to the site. They are tools, tools of socialization. They serve an effect where IRL the said user might not have been able to bring about as compared to clicking on the computer. This fast forwarding effect of the 'social action' in turn creates a frenzy/flurry of activities in the online world where people are dotting/poking/hi-fiving each other. And while all this is happening, not forgetting if put in a RL situation, probably less than 20% of that action would really have occurred.
What we have here ladies and gentlemen, before you get too ahead of yourself and grow too big in the head of your newfound online popularity, is a case of virtual buzz.
Take a RL check and see how far ahead of your social life you have really gotten. Go ahead, I'm pretty sure the zombies however scary they are, can wait.
London.
Ah, the problem with London.
School has been great. Probably more so, because of the chain of events that led up to Orientation week. A slew of waiting in line at banks, police stations and listening to non-offer-like offers while being put on hold to setup a landline with British Telecom, all that probably, very much, made me much more attuned the to the British way of life. In the land of happy then rain, happy then sun come out, where people are forever in a rush to somewhere, and their faces always pulled long, sometimes I wonder in pure moments of sheer boredom how their lifespans do not differ from the rest of the world. Big city syndrome? More on the London situation in the near future.
And of course there is class. and class's webpage and class's brief. And if you click on 'Current projects' on the left in the class webpage, you can see who my classmates are. And in case you're wondering, that isn't a confident smirk. The denim is a 27$ helmutlang from oxfam, and probably dispels rumors that I don't shop. I do! However coincidental it may be, it definetly is not rubbing off from Luke.
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wtf, so I'm directed to the Commencement page and I'm not one bit excited. What do you attribute this to? Yes, lack of interest caused by? Bad participation, less than satisfactory academic results, lack of friends, lack of .... No. None of the above. Without sounding too pretentious, I am confident enough to say no to all of the above. But the former still holds.
Last night in Zouk we talked about Commencement. (Don't ask me how the nerd topic came about, but yes it did.) And it reminded me how similar it was to a traditional Chinese wedding dinner. Everything is DFS (To put in comprain king's terminology - DO FOR SHOW). Do for who? Do for your parents la. No its not a shameful event nor is it washing dirty linen in public. But there are too many hidden agendas and baggage both emotional and political that comes along with the celebration that the celebrated does not bask in its obvious glory. The oblivious (read:parents) do not realise and do not sympathise. But who is to blame? The source of the problem of course. What this problem is, I need not say. But readers in the know would know what I mean.