Out in one of the parking lots of Fort Mason, there is the stern of a ship, labeled "Galilee, San Francisco", protruding from one of the Fort walls. No explanation, just the back of a boat, a crude roof above it, and a few "KEEP OUT" signs reinforc...

Jingus Mcgee: Welcome all to our simulate a tree task. We had a lot of fun and we hope you all enjoy our work. Please note that this also marks the founding of Biome Gardens in Golden Gate Park. Biomers of the world, heed our call! Add to the ga...

Through a complex series of events, several of us (in some cases unknowingly) collaborated to complete this task. The box was installed, the address was leaked, mail was inadvertantly sent to the address, the box and the mail disappeared, it reappea...

Mail me (Rubin) if I missed you, add in your photos here.

THE BEST BUS STOP IN SF! 8/25/07 - NEW VIDEO [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOyU9Z_huM] The Documentary, in two parts. Available courtesy of YouTube Part the first Part the second Lowteck: A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF LOWTECK DAY 1 Tuesd...

I remade the interior of a port-o-potty to look like a bachelor pad. I didn't realize this task was collaborative only, so I added becki is neat and Maze Designer because they provided moral support and creative input. I hope no one minds because I...

Jackie and I were particularly inspired by this task. We considered our options and then decided to go shopping at a cheap thrift store (Thrift Town). We bought a 6 items, repackaged them, and inserted them into various stores in Berkeley and San Fra...

I went on a solo 13 mile blindfolded excursion. I started at the Braille Institute, which is not far from where I live in Silverlake, and decided to make my way to the Pasadena Braille Club. This trip involved two different Metro trains and about s...

THE REMOTE CONTROL BUS STOP RAVE FLASH MOB [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktm-LxCoe_I] Click here (or is it right-click?) to listen to or download what we were listening to. mp3/35 min/55 MB LOWTECK: What a day that was! I set up a remote ...

Standing in line with shopping cart of seventy-seven ethnic religious candles must have made an amusing anecdote for someone later in the evening. I was immediately drawn to the Lux Aeterna task. With it I was interested in the potential of muddling ...

Doornamentation Installation When this all started, Burn Unit had a trash-bound door left over from a house renovation project. The original plan was to build a freestanding frame and run out to a location, like Lyndale Avenue over by The Walker, a...

Door Henge Other Tasks Completed at Doorhenge... Restoration Le Papier Bleu et le Poulet Urban Altar Urban Altar Urban Altar II: Theurgy It's Not Paranoia Unless It's Real Tehching Hsieh(three of five) Long ago a mysterious civilization erected...

Up with Hills/Down with Hills! Bex: It started with two. Scarlett says to me "Lets protest something ridiculous! But what?" And having spent part of the day driving, the memory of those signs that say "HILL" at the tops of very ...

Concept I decided to have a bit of fun interpreting this task. The phrase "leave a message" has two common uses: the "world, hear this!" sense, and the "Susan can't come to the phone right now" sense. The first is the...

This is the story of a task that didn't quite work out as intended, but is still worth sharing. The original vision: dozens of human-sized stick figures left hanging from ledges, cliffs, and high window sills throughout the city. We came up with th...

1. Preliminary notes on kill switches - OR - A bunch of rambling text that barely relates to the task. - OR - You probably want to skip ahead straight to the photos. I know I would. I had some time to kill at work the other day, an...

One day, Lowteck decided it was about time he expressed his love for George Lucas. He decided to present Mr. Lucas with a statue of Yoda, complete with a loving note. Luckily, he didn't have to actually make a statue of Yoda, since there already i...

Mood Music (Please Enjoy While Reading!) [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd5nFd3utLg] Executive Summary: Park(ing) day is an annual event created by the art group REBAR in which dozens of autonomous actors rent metered parking spaces an...

My God, this was hard. I think my journal documents this task better than anything, so I'll just transcribe it here. That plus the captions. Begin 31/8/07 8:45 ----- Bag contains - GPS - sleep bag - food - toiletries - books - blanket - light - jou...

GYØ pulls this out of the crappy beaches of the east. Tom I'd been intrigued by this task ever since the first time I saw it, then dropped it because I was a mere level 2 player. But seeing as we moved up the ranks, we thought about this task ag...

STOP! Don't vote for this! Thanks for all the votes. I'm flattered. But, I don't want to take Lank's high score fleurette. Go vote for him instead. Or, if you feel this interpretation deserves two votes, vote for us both. Or, if you refuse to v...

We decided to do a multitude of human-games, as a compendium is better than a singular. NOUGHTS AND CROSSES We waited for a LONG time for people to come along and help - about three hours! But it's all worth it when there's a NOUGHTS AND CROSSES CH...

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fhifv-lFfcU] lux aeterna from mozart's requiem. for listening only. lara black: i came to feel that i really loved this task after reading the completion by you know who. simple as it is, it seemed so elegant and ...

It was Friday the 27th of October... I was sitting alone in my small room in my cozy little warehouse abode. I was sitting alone for a few reasons. The reason of most relevance was that there had been a scheduled meeting of sf0 members. No one cam...

The original Falco staircase (or Falcostiege) in Vienna was dedicated after the Musician's death in 1998. The staircase is quite small and unimpressive. Apparently the city was unable to find a street or bridge named after a dead fascist which could ...

2 in 1 task!!!!!!!!! You can't beat this. This is awesome. I took THE PERMANENT COLLECTION and A REAL LIFE SECRET EGG and combined the two. The plan revolved around me taking a Pysanky egg that I created and hiding it inside of a book on Psysanky ...

     First a warning: ****WARNING**** This proof has a lot of nudity and adult themes, so if you are offended by adult themes, skip this proof. OK, this is a long story. I started out doing this task not knowing how to get my hands on 1000 emai...

Traffic and parking will always hover around the point where it's mildly annoying. If it gets too annoying, people trade autos for other transit. If it's too easy, more people will drive. Therefore, reducing automobile traffic would be counter produc...

The Waller and Steiner Suggestions Box is a living social experiment (or "dialogue organism") developed to encourage community understanding and engagement, introduce internet-like self-organization strategies into a non-internet environme...

For my course Art Since 1945, I have to write a formal analysis on a work of my choice from the collection of the St. Louis Art Museum. Saturday I went to choose my subject. But before I left I thought to grab this: self-adhesive red foam + ...

Epic. In terms of the solo tasking I have done for SFØ, this weighs in as about the most epic, in my opinion. Especially because after thoroughly destroying my body on a 10-hour death march, I thought I had failed. You see, San Francisco is basica...

Liquid Bubbles, Soap Bubbles, Speech Bubbles, Stock Market Bubbles, The Bubble, Bubble and Squeak, Bubble Tea, Bubble Gum, Bubble Bobble, Bubble Act, Bubble Chamber, Bubble Wrap, Westminster Bubble, South Sea Bubble...none of which should be confu...

I liked the idea of giving someone the opportunity to wear a t-shirt with my name on, everyone should have fans! (click to enlarge the pics)

In a few weeks the European football championship is gonna take place and this time it's gonna be here in Austria Unfortunatly thats also the only reason why our national team is qualified. To say it clearly: they suck. They didn't win a single game ...

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, proud inventor of stenography was in bad need of a moustache. Mr. Gabelsberger is like me not really the SNIDE type of person so we agreed on finding a solution that makes us both happy, me as an EquivalenZ and him as an UoA...

WATCH THE VIDEO! don't ever let go from star5 on Vimeo. 5 of us were hanging out playing games for no-pants-day. we brought up the idea of tasking.. but what to do? star5 mentioned wanting to do this task, but how to make it more impressive than ju...

We decided that the fuzz, needed more fuzz... Our target: The Oregon National gaurd Armory. preperation for opperation Moustache All systems are go! Mission compleated:

This task is more difficult than it appears. PART 1 After much deliberation, Lowteck and Lank decided to use this task to encourage VERTICAL PEDESTRIANISM Specifically on San Francisco's famous Transamerica Building: It's part commentary on ...

Operation BubbleYum: or How to Turn a War Machine into a Whimsical Confection This task is brought to you by SLØ with special guest star Zer0gee and is dedicated to Evil Sugar, the biggest candy fiend of all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

A couple of weeks ago, Sam, Sean, and Ian put out a call to SF players to help get SFØ in the faces of the viewers of WSJ.com, the online presence of the Wall Street Journal. In particular, their correspondent Andy Jordan has a Tech Diary in which S...