Lincoln spent about two months in Austin and wanted to do some tasking, and when he and The Bastard were thinking of tasks to do, they both thought "Why not launch 1000 ships?" So we went about doing that.

The hardest part was the folding of 1000 origami ships. This took over three weeks, maybe as many as four or five. We didn't really count. We mostly folded during Laker playoff games. We found we couldn't do it while watching movies, as it was too distracting. But for all seven Houston games and the six Denver games, we folded ships. It seemed like we would never finish. 1000 is a really big number. Doing anything 1000 times is wearing. Monotony was a constant companion. But we plowed through. And we folded all 1000. Actually we folded 1006. Just in case we lost some or whatever. But we didn't lose any, and whatever didn't happen. We managed to launch all 1006 ships.

I packed all of the ships into a big red cooler, and early one morning before the sun came up, we headed out to Lake Austin to launch us 1000 ships.

The sun was just rising as we started, and as we were finishing an hour later, was when the dog walking crowd came out. We had a lot of spectators and a few asked us questions. One man asked us if we were doing it for SCIENCE! and I told him that yes we were. Also art. I used the word aesthematics, but he didn't understand. He said it was one of the best things he'd seen in a very long time. There was one woman who asked a lot of questions and hung around for a very long time and took a lot of pictures, and I directed her to this site, and maybe she'll find this task.

I would love to sum up how I feel about the whole adventure, but I'm glad to not be folding any more ships and happy to have it submitted after a lot of time working on it. I just hope you enjoy what we put out into the world. I know this doesn't come close to the experience of seeing all of those ships sailing out there in the world, but it's all you get, I tried to take as much video and as many photos as I thought would be interesting. Enjoy!