Fluxus with ode on Snow Leopard....

[Jaen's the hero for this :P]

Obviously the Mac version provided on Fluxus website is not the only thing you need. It requires ODE as well.

But macports install the wrong ODE version. (Said to be the PPC version, but I'm using an intel mac)

So in the mailing list someone said that Fluxus doesn't work with ode-0.9. However, it was not correct either. To build ode-0.9 does not create the libode.1.dylib file that was required.

Anyway, it ended up with that ODE 0.11.1 is working fine with fluxus.

So this is how it goes:

1. Using ode-0.11.1 source code
2. Compile in 32-bit mode because automatically gcc is set to x86-64

./configure --with-trimesh=opcode --enable-double-precision --enable-release --enable-shared --disable-demos --prefix=/opt/local CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" LD="g++ -m32"

--prefix=/opt/local will have ode installed to the right place on mac
CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" LD="g++ -m32" set the compiler to compile in 32-bit mode


Then

make
sudo make install

And there you go~

My new year wishes and goals for 2010

1. To keep up with the newest science development, always.
2. To make every thing, every object, in life, useful.
3. To make science and art more friendly to people. Let science be playful.
4. Hackerspace in Taiwan! :P Or something like that. :P
5. Have fun always. No matter how hard things are, they are always fun. :P
6. Love the world and see more good of it. Pay attention to everything. See their beauty.
7. Pay back to the society whenever able to. :)


...... it's all the matter of fun, anyways. :) Love life and enjoy life.

crisis

As this is posted in such a public space it might be dangerous to me. :P

I'm just having some crisis of why doing so again.

In this world there are so many things that are more "saying" than "doing". Maybe I don't know enough about other countries, this is what I have observed in Taiwan.

So you create an art work, and its nice, but you still have to write a bunch of crap to prove its worth. Or vice versa, you made a crap, and you write a bunch of crap to make it look awesome. It doesn't matter. In the end what matters is how you write.

Then why not just write, and do nothing?

What's the difference between art work and critics?

I can write well. But I just don't want to do so right now. No. I've been trained well on writing chinese, but I just don't want to use the power of pen (and some fancy words without real meanings) to *make a work look valuable*.

Sometimes this "writing activities" makes me wonder if it is cheating at all. Seems not, since all the "activities" (in art) are just about "writing competitions" along with personal tastes anyway. It IS about the writing, not about the "work" after all. So why not just accept it?

Yes I actually took time to read through many thesis written by art / interactive art / design students. 80% of them I really can't see anything new except for citing references. Usually McLuhan, Barthes, Derrida, Sontag, Baudrillard, Ascott, Benjamin... And there are rarely anything new. Then why write it?

Oh because it's just a game about how you speak. *wink*

Really the question is just whether you want to play the game with them or not. (But I really don't want to.)

So I have a crisis, again.

Aw

Long since I last posted. Right now I am work on my SOP/Motivation/Essay for applying universities. Hard to write. Especially hard for my current status: the "tofu" status. My brain is full of tofu right now. :p No, maybe not tofu, but just fat and protein that doesn't even functioning. Oh I am so amazed that I am still capable of writing. The life have been so dull in the past one month, and I feel so dead. It's like there's always a threshold of motivations (to live) that when I push myself above the threshold then I am living happily, but if I didn't work hard enough then I am nothing more than vegetables... or carnivorous plants. *wink*

There's an exam waiting for me this weekend, and I am not studying at all. Really. And I have to make sure one of my application sends out before Oct 25. Neither am I preparing the digital portfolio. OMG. How do I work when my brain is nothing but junk?

Only one good thing is I am much more clear about what I want now. So writing the SOP is just hard for starting and writing itself instead of thinking of what my motivations are.

But still still still...

I think I need some talks with my friends to make my brain move.

恩

好久沒有坐下來好好寫些什麼。隨著壓力一波一波的來，我用遊戲痲痹自己消磨時間。
也許，颱風夜適合聽點安靜哀傷的音樂。

然而我什麼都不想做。

今天看到很喜歡的一段話

今天高金素梅去講原住民的權益不會有人聽，因為她是原住民。台灣就是大家都在看身分，因為你是原住民，所以你關心原住民
權益很合理。可是如果天上掉一個不知道自己在幹嘛，然後唱〈寶貝〉的人出來講說：「媽的，我覺得你們應該對原住民好一點！」大家會覺得：關你屁事啊？但如果你這樣講了幾年，啊如果你還能夠被人認出來你是張懸的話，人家就會想說你為什麼要那麼在乎，久了就會有些人開始去思考了。

---張懸於張鐵志訪問中

A touching paragraph on Wikipedia

Primo Levi suggested that Anne Frank is frequently identified as a single representative of the millions of people who suffered and died as she did because, "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live."[57] In her closing message in Melissa Müller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies expressed a similar thought, though she attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolises the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over. Anne cannot, and should not, stand for the many individuals whom the Nazis robbed of their lives... But her fate helps us grasp the immense loss the world suffered because of the Holocaust."[61]

From Wikipeda: Anne Frank

A film about web 2.0

Interesting.

Silhouette

Facebook上面給沒有照片的人們放了張沒有臉的剪影照片
但對於那些我知道的人，好像臉都會從剪影的空白空間裡浮出來
像親愛的J長得根本就跟剪影一個樣
J的媽媽卻要比剪影圓上許多
無法形容的好笑

張懸