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Sign Recontextualisation by Lank, SNORLAX, Jeremy Cezanne

June 8th, 2008 11:08 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Take a sign (the more permanent/authoritative it looks the better) and install it in a place that changes the sign's original meaning or intent.

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 present-day urban life and part silly distraction from the adjacent (building on left) Scientologists.

See the pics for the story.


PART 2

DO NOT ENTER SAN FRANCISCO!!!

Lowteck and Jeremy had to walk down a freeway for this one


main_sign156030.jpgmain_sign256031.jpg

+ larger

The Finished Product
Lowteck + Power Tools = Taskerific
Safety!
Lank at Work
Closer Still
Final Touch
Pre-Launch Prep
At the Scene
SCORE!
Action
Success!
View 1
View 2
The Next Day
sign1.jpg
sign2.jpg
sign3.jpg
MONKEYS
ARE
CUTE

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Very nice.
posted by Secret Agent on June 9th, 2008 4:09 AM

Is the Do Not Enter still there too?

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posted by Dax Tran-Caffee on June 9th, 2008 6:25 AM

Excellent use of a ladder and zip ties.

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posted by JJason Recognition on June 9th, 2008 8:40 AM

Nice task.

But I wonder about that location where you were working on the task. Is it the same place you did Fight the Future? I see a car in the background, so it might be a garage. But that cars pretty far away, indicating a garage much longer than usual. Plus the whole thing appears to be made of solid blocks of concrete - my first guess was a basement, but how do you get a car into a basement? No, I'm afraid that the only logical conclusion is that it's the head of a tunnel, a tunnel that leads into the underground bunker that Lowteck lives in.

But this only leads to more questions - Why does Lowteck live in a bunker? Is he preparing for a nuclear war? Barbarian invaders? The robot revolution? And Why doesn't he park his car further into the tunnel? The mind boggles.

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posted by anna one on June 9th, 2008 9:21 AM

It's the robot revolution. Totally.

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posted by SNORLAX on June 9th, 2008 11:07 AM

I AM BATMAN!!!

isn't that +1
posted by Burn Unit on June 9th, 2008 1:27 PM

I am the goddamn Batman?

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posted by Fonne Tayne on June 12th, 2008 6:21 PM

what is the possibility of a robot revolution leading to nuclear war, followed by a nuclear winter, and eventually a biological takeover of the earth's entire surface by mutant brocolli?

and then, what would your chances of survival be in above-mentioned tunnel lair?

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posted by teucer on June 12th, 2008 6:29 PM

Virtually zero, of course.... but if it did happen, the tunnel lair wouldn't help all that much.

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posted by Lizard Boy on June 9th, 2008 9:00 AM

This is unrelated to the task specifically:

Does anyone else get breaks in the series of pictures that aren't connected by the "next" and "previous" buttons? For example, if I click on the SCORE! picture (church of scientology), I don't have a "next" option, and if I click on the next one I don't have a "previous" option. I've been noticing that sort of thing for a while now and I'm really curious.

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posted by Ink Tea on June 9th, 2008 9:02 AM

Yes. And it confuses me, too.

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posted by JJason Recognition on June 9th, 2008 9:10 AM

Ja, me too.

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posted by anna one on June 9th, 2008 9:22 AM

I submitted this very same issue as a bug a few months ago, but I haven't heard anything yet.

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posted by Tøm on June 9th, 2008 11:36 AM

Got that here too.

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posted by GYØ Ben on June 9th, 2008 12:47 PM

I think it's something to do with the timespace in which the sets of photos were praxis-ised, with a big gap between, they get separated, for some reason...

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posted by Sean Mahan on June 12th, 2008 12:34 AM

Fixed?

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posted by GYØ Ben on June 12th, 2008 2:41 AM

Huzzah! +1 for Sean!

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posted by Sparrows Fall on June 12th, 2008 5:23 PM

Yay Sean!

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on June 9th, 2008 9:06 AM

Where's the Donut Enter sign? I want to see if I can spot it on my way into town next week.

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posted by Not Here No More on June 9th, 2008 11:57 AM

I hate that glitch.

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posted by Dax Tran-Caffee on June 9th, 2008 4:53 PM

I think it's rather cute.

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posted by Minch on June 11th, 2008 1:34 PM

Vote for orangutan licking glass cage.


And the overall full of win of this task.