Everyday Life by Rubin Starset, Rabbit
September 22nd, 2008 2:41 AM / Location: 37.772970,-122.4423I wanted to do some fucking tasks today. Set aside my whole afternoon and eve. But nooooo, SF0 had to do something different. Well fuck that. Was planning on dropping by the Oak St house so I can bitch one of the three out, but I ended up taking a nap.
Rabbit and I were planning to build a temple, the Temple of Heaven. A grand monument, a marvel to man's greatest engineering. Or something like that. It ended up becoming a low commitment Burning Man project that was actually more work then we thought.
About an hour later, a whole lot of profanity and gluing our fingers together, we did it. No work, no school, just a lot of pain and tears. I broke two of the fucking pieces.
Better photos and maybe an audio clip to come later.
Rabbit:
I was planning my big entry back into sf0 after a long hiatus, scheming and planning on doing tasks all afternoon on Sunday with Rubin, but then we pulled up sf0.org and it was "wtf" for the whole afternoon of Sunday. So we built the Temple of Heaven. I only glued my fingers to the temple twice. They say it's tasty.
6 vote(s)
Terms
cheat, notcheatreally, wtf13 comment(s)
Shouldn't they have? That was when the task "Everyday Life" was made active. Sunday September 21.
If you don't know how one cheated.
I'm not having any problem about when it was posted.... more about what timeframe it is discussing? Were you doing the task on Sunday?
The reason I ask is that MOST people work or go to school on Monday through Friday. So my second question would be when do YOU normally work/school?
If both answers are Sunday, then great! You did awesomely!
If the first answer is Sunday but the second answer is Weekdays.... it at the very least doesn't fit the spirit of the task, and so I'd see failure on the near horizon.
It's worth noting that almost everyone completed this task on Sunday, and that the majority of those people did not have work or school.
Indeed. In fact, if we got the instructions on a day when going to neither work nor school was unexpected, it wouldn't make much sense to call the task Everyday Life.
posted by JTony Loves Brains on September 22nd, 2008 7:19 PM
I'm not having any problem about when it was posted.... more about what timeframe it is discussing? Were you doing the task on Sunday?
The reason I ask is that MOST people work or go to school on Monday through Friday. So my second question would be when do YOU normally work/school?
If both answers are Sunday, then great! You did awesomely!
If the first answer is Sunday but the second answer is Weekdays.... it at the very least doesn't fit the spirit of the task, and so I'd see failure on the near horizon.
Explain to me this spirit of tasking.
I said spirit of the task, this task in particular. The idea behind it, that we break away from the ties of work and school, Ferris Bueller like.
I did not say spirit of tasking. Different, bigger, and not within the scope of my question.
Okay but the scope of your question is kind of asinine! Did you post this freaking comment on everyone who did this task on day one of the era? Did you feel that SSI were being too easy on everyone adding the first task of the era on a day when they were just about guaranteed to have a bunch of people complete it? Did you really feel like gluing together a freaking miniature temple of heaven is insufficiently in the spirit of the task? I almost wondered at first if maybe you misread the proof as Rubin saying they'd built the actual temple of heaven for Burning Man weeks ago, and were trying to get points for it retroactively. But I see that your problem is that they did the task on a Sunday??
???
?????
Do you feel like maybe, just maybe, this particular criticism is confusing?
And also, not very constructive?
Hi BU,
I didn't care that they did it the first day of the task. I thought that was cool. What I cared about was that the spirit of the task was asking the taskers to skip school or work, which is kind of hard to do on a Sunday unless you work on a Sunday.
The spirit of the task, it seems to me, is about what you do with the skipping. It is about Ferris Bueller and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, about ditching your socialized responsibilities for a time to do something... different. I saw nothing about that in this praxis, so I posed the question. That’s it. Posed the question. No flag, no nasty "This praxis sucks" comments. Just. A. Question.
I didn't post my question anywhere else because there were only a few folks who had posted this task at the time. Lincoln, for instance. And Lincoln skipped work he was scheduled to do on a Sunday, which met the criteria of the task.
And I think the temple is totally cool, really amazing, and I want to know more about it (was it a kit, scratch built, is it of a real temple, what's it made of, is it really edible?), and I wish there was more praxis here to satisfy those questions.
But all I did was post a question, which I do whenever I see someone posting something I'm not sure meets the criteria (and you can't say these taskers don't do the same... a little notoriety goes a long way).
And what's not constructive about asking a question?
In fact, I'd argue that—adjusting to vote strangeness and low task volume aside—this era is very much in line with other eras of the game. It's very common to have low level tasks which focus on getting people in the habit of
1) self-consciousness,
2) attentive documentation (and/or creative documentation)
3) not making it particularly onerous to do either of those things by setting an expectation of required epic-ness out the gate.
Here's a list for your consideration:
ImpEx
Restroom-Photography
Zizek
Buy drinks
Glasnost
Take notes
compile footage
pants observation
object annotation
signs
Insatiability
leave clues
rephotography
rhyming pix
All of these are early-in-the-era tasks (I include a couple I created because I'm fucking vain) which get people to think about doing things intentionally for the game. This is a lot harder than we might expect—think about all the times Rubin tells people to get away from the fucking computer; he's right!
Just to get people limbered up and doing things self consciously is a big deal. Doing it modestly is a great gesture, very inclusive. It also puts us on equal footing—n00bs and graybeards alike.
Yeah, you can do Everyday Life with massive epicness, and when you do that, this community will reward you with votes and accolades (assuming we have any to give! haw ah haw haw!) But should we likewise punish people who do it this way?
Plus, shit man, miniature temple of heaven!
Um... when did you do this? It looks, from your praxis, you did it on Sunday Sept. 21. Is this correct?