Sign Recontextualisation by Lank, SNORLAX, Jeremy Cezanne
June 8th, 2008 11:08 PMPART 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
The Finished Product
Lowteck + Power Tools = Taskerific
In the lair of Lowteck, where shopping carts double as work benches.
Safety!
Safety goggles are a must. Safety is very important to us.
Lank at Work
Wearing his urban camouflage colors.
Closer Still
Mmmm... metal shavings are tasty treats for robots.
Final Touch
Lank applies a line to the sign.
Pre-Launch Prep
Lowteck makes sure we have all the necessary tools for mounting the sign. Most important items - ZIP TIES!
At the Scene
After several minutes of scouting locations, including Coit Tower and the evil Federal Building, we settle on the Transamerica Pyramid. We performed reconnaissance to determine that security was too tight around the actual building, but half a block away...
SCORE!
We found the perfect location. There was a light pole just outside of this Scientology building on busy Columbus Street with a great view of Transamerica.
Action
We were in a hurry, so we got a little discombobulated, but Lank managed to get the thing to stay with a web of tangled zip ties. Good thing Lowteck brought that ladder.
Success!
In case you're wondering, that's Italian flag colors on the pole, since this is in the Little Italy part of town.
View 1
View as you walk down the sidewalk.
View 2
From the middle of Colombus Street.
The Next Day
Still there!
MONKEYS
ARE
CUTE
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Excellent use of a ladder and zip ties.
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.
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?
Virtually zero, of course.... but if it did happen, the tunnel lair wouldn't help all that much.
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.
I submitted this very same issue as a bug a few months ago, but I haven't heard anything yet.
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...
Where's the Donut Enter sign? I want to see if I can spot it on my way into town next week.
Vote for orangutan licking glass cage.
And the overall full of win of this task.
Is the Do Not Enter still there too?