We set up a light to turn on whenever players submit proof of a completed task. In fact, the light is on...right now! When we approve the proof, the light turns off again. The light originally comes from ikea. We found it on the street on a tab...

I was really excited about this task, and recently decided to tackle it in a manner entirely sans words. This is kind of scary for me, because I love words and in writing I often hide behind metaphor and imagery. Visual art strikes me as much more ...

And now an incredibly difficult to reproduce player photo: Ink Tea. -----EDIT----- I just can't stop. Here's sixacross. -----EDIT----- As a celebration of this new era dawning, I thought I'd reinvigorate this, my favorite of tasks. Normally I pride m...

It was fun reenacting a puddle of pee using day-old tea.

This task has sat in my list of tasks i have signed up for since New York last september. This is because of so many reasons, mainly i have been planning this task for a long time, but it ended up being something completely different. I completed t...

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...

When I first read this task, I thought it meant one should dissolve a document. Having done it before, I knew a little about it. I thought it might be a good time to let you in on where my name comes from. I wrote it. I suppose I ought to say... I d...

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, Lank, hereby challenge Shalàhco to a duel. (or whatever crafty name you are going by now) The subject of this challenge is the besmirching of the honor (and skin) of the lady by the name of anna one. The incident in question is documented here:...

This conversation took place a few days ago, whilst I was browsing the internet for SD cards. Hack says: http://www.google.com Hack says: http://www.google.com Hack says: http://www.google.com Hack says: http://www.google.com Hack says: http://www.g...

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...

While stumbling around on the internet I came across a lovely old instrument called a Cigar Box Guitar. It apparently has a long history among american blues musicians, many of whom first learned to play on homemade cigar box stinged instruments. Som...

This task completion of Spread SFØ was to settle the Duel between myself and Bex, aka "The Herø". The completions were posted at 12PM Pacific Time, October 18th. After a week of racing neck-and-neck (tied at 23 votes at midnight), the f...

On July 6th, 2007, The Villain stole a photograph of the Sutro Tower from Rabbit to claim as his own task completion of Photograph Sutro Tower (The Low Score Task). This event marked the beginning of a series of nefarious acts propagated by The Vill...

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...

Advertising is... Getting the word out. Perhaps by appropriating someone else's idea and using it to promote your own material: All players who vote for MY completion will recieve a 4x6 inch watercolored portrait* based on one of their player phot...

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...

Dear Bex, I bear you no ill will. I appreciate your praxis incredibly. But fate has pitched us against each other over the conquest of the definition of advertising. My deepest regrets, but there must be a duel. Because of the great physical d...

Welcome to Spreading SFØ with Bex the Herø! This task completion of Spread SFØ was to settle the Duel between myself and The Villain. The completions were posted at 12PM Pacific Time, October 18th. After a week of racing neck-and-neck (tied at...

This is it. I think. The last day of your life. How will you spend it? What will you do? Who will be honored enough to hear your last words? Should it be epic or simple? Reviewing the old or striving for the new? Will it all matter in the end? Disc...

Eat your heart out, Villian! I have made devil's food cake out of you and will feed you to the masses! Bwah ha ha!!!* Scarlett's dairy-free baking is divine. Bex was heroically helpful around the kitchen, and was given such grave responsibilities as...

I give you this word: Shplank [ʃplӕŋk] – verb (used with object): to complete an SFØ task in such a way that when other players view the proof, they believe that said task has been completed as well as is possible. I just thought this phen...

October 31st, 2007 To the Players of SFØ, This has been a most rewarding Era. I had enjoyed casting my shadow over your little playground, taunting your membership, and absconding with your precious Sutro Tower. But my accomplishments did not ...

RESUBMITTED! A few weeks ago, Quentin Watson (formerly Stanley Gibbons) submitted a very literal interpretation of this task. It was quickly judged as too little effort for a Level 6 completion, and flagged to death. Not wanting to accept defeat, h...

1. The future of the past. Posted by Loki on October 9th, 2007 There are three ways to accurately predict the future, short of discovering time travel. 1. Say something so vague that it has no predictive power. This is the strategy of futurists an...

The story of this task begins here, where I picked the lock to my brother's forbidden box of secret things. As soon as I successfully broke in and started rifling through all the stuff he was so embarrassed to show me as an awkward adolescent all th...

I'm proud to announce my candidacy for SFØ Senate. photo by BLUE SFØ hasn't had a new senator in far too long. Isn't it about time to give the old guard of the Senate an infusion of new energy? Here is what I offer: As Senator, I will fight fo...

In early September, The Herø and The Villain decided to Spread SFØ. The Praxis was posted on October 18th. Spread SFØ is a level 1 task which, in The Villain's estimation, has not yet been pushed to its limit. We staged our completions as a for...

The adventure of the Villain: The Villain’s story began on a Dark Night in San Franciscø with the execution of an evil deed, demonstrating his supervillain powers. The Hero, culled from the flock, departed on a quest to discover a weapon of ...

OK, this is a task that I accomplished when doing a different one, one that I hadn´t read carefully and turned out to be one that required to be Level 6 and not to be HC in order to document it. Damn. This task. So, I am documenting here the way I ...

How can I turn down a dare/gift as good as this? I began writing for this task at exactly high noon on Jan 5th My original fear in trying to do this task was that it seemed likely that I would end up with a bunch of "I ate an eggo waffle and...

The United Kingdom of Pascifitonia and Elsen Welcome to Pascifitonia! The 'land of a thousand lakes', with a hundred miles of busy beaches, Pascifitonia is famed for its lively traditional percussion music, and the pomp and ceremony of its ancient...

The song players don't work, can you offer any assistance? - Thanks Spidere! I had a few ideas from the start, but I swiftly realised I needed a UoA member to sign up for this, so I roped in my friend Kieran. Yes, he did collaborate (albeit rather ...

A celebration of Glasnost. Enjoy! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zKfRngH0E] P.S. - The music is by The Arcade Fire. Happy New Era! Happy New Year!

tiny EPIC player portraits for all! I made 20 water color player portraits, each one about the size they appear on the player page, which is smaller even than they appear on individual players' pages. I think I botched only one (sorry Natalia Envy, ...

Lincoln, at approximately 7' by 5.5', rasterized and taped to my kitchen wall. I 'shopped in the SF0, PH0, and LA0 logos to his right.

As soon as I saw this task I thought "cool." Immediately my mind was filled with the images I saw at the RCA once created by a student who used a scanner as a kind of camera obscura. An hour's worth of long exposure, what would that look li...

I decided to walk 25 miles in someone else's shoes, mostly along a nice flat grade rail trail that I've bike along many time but never walked. My friend, Moussie, came along for company (because he'd never walked that far at once either and is always...

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.&quo...

Podcast series two is upon us! Enjoy! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7N27ekLwj4] Series 2, Cast 4 Ben, Susy and Lincoln --Xylophones --Very wide national representation --The first podcast without Tom... EVER --Susy Derkins --A secret ...

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 + ...

This task simultaneously intrigued and confounded me when first I saw it. I thought, "What is Burn Unit smoking?" So of course I had to do it because it made my brain do contortions to figure out a completion with which I would be satisfied...

Written by Myrna tha Minx: We unleashed our inner desire for bondage on a neighborhood bar. "Bar" is actually not the most accurate description. It's one of a more sordid subset of bars, mysteriously referred to as a "club." A...

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)

We have many pictures, so did not include all of them in the praxis proper - peruse the proof for the panopticon. The Task Those of you considering doing this task? You might think to yourself, "I could totally run a mile in, like, ten minut...

The Dragon Curve. Objectively the prettiest of the simple fractals. Protagonist of Jurassic Park. Therefore an obvious choice for painting on Doktor Harmon and JJason's apartment wall. First, we modeled it with toothpicks for practice: Hmm, t...

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 ...

Mission: Creation Donation All five gummy teams participated in this task. The gummy bears had a whole bunch of blank cards left over from 1 Blank White Card, so they decided to make some tarot cards. Since they have mastered the art of You Ch...

A Multi-Tasking Completion from GYØ Ben and his mum I managed to complete 5 tasks in one plus one unintentional completion in this little outing where GYØ were SUPPOSED to be completing Team HQ. It was far too rainy for that, anyway. So I set them...

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...

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YellowBear recently had his first SFØ Bearthday. To commemorate the occasion, I brought him and his posse (with whom I have a little history) to my studio for a formal portrait sitting. This first player portrait inspired two others of Lunch and my...

What's better than organic green tea? Free range SOYLENT green tea! The full write-up is in the photos. Clicky clicky.

All of you should be portrait and golden framed! Actually I wanted to draw all players but.... I'm not insane.

06.05.08 Pamda: While relatively new to the glory that is sf0, my natural talent at making a fool of myself in front of strangers as well as my penchant for purchasing large amounts of children’s toys led me to immediately select task “Make Som...

General Introduction and Thoughts (B Orionis) Do you remember when you were a little kid, and each skyscraper, playground slide, firetruck, dinosaur skeleton, or construction crane looked at least ten times as tall as they do now? That’s a beaut...

Well, I started with this task a while ago and thought that it would be done in an evening. That was not well calculated but actually I enjoyed this long process quite a lot. I do have a TV. I kind of like my TV, I like to watch movies and sometimes...

This didn't start off as a task. One afternoon, Doctor Subtle and I sat in a Starbucks, passing the time before we were due some place. In lieu of the book I had forgotten, I grabbed some hot drink sleeves from the counter, whipped out my colored pe...

I've had this task stashed for a while. I've known what I wanted to do for most of that time, but I was procrastinating. When I first signed up for this I looked over the previous completions and noticed one major thing missing. No one, to date, h...

Prologue: This began as a completion of Stranded. For a long time, I held off on doing Stranded because I couldn't think of a place I could get myself to that I couldn't walk back from just as easily. But when I saw the task four days before headi...

This all started from a desire I had, to be able to follow site conversations without constantly checking back on a task. For example, the conversations regarding Harry Lee's disappearance. Similarly, I wanted to be able to see when a task was upda...

I installed both a physical and metaphorical mirror to reflect on one of my favorite locations, Davis Square in Somerville, MA. I used the metaphorical mirror (a sign, some index cards, and a marker) to give away the physical mirror (stained glass an...

The moment I saw this task, I knew what I wanted to annotate. Knowing what I had to annotate, I immediately knew how it must be done. No matter that it would ruin the semi-anonymity and legibility of using the typewriter for all of my photographed wr...

This is a strange little task. I couldn't decide whether to play it as possibly true or obviously crazy, and in the end wound up with clearly fictional. Ah well. Task accomplished, and it sounds like my contact enjoyed it. The original ad, posted...

The Funeral Of Scyld Scefing We got married on a dare and a coin-flip. I mean, he dared me to marry him-- but i had to check my impulsive alacrity against the chaos of the universe. Heads, we break up. Tails, we... wed. and the universe sai...