http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure Playtime Anti-Boredom Society http://sf0.org/SFmedia/rss.gif http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure http://sf0.org/dooriya/Drive/ San Francisco Dérive ACT I on the caltrain bound north by northwest on saturday, 6 skeezy grunge younguns board at the palo alto station. they stomp on, 5 boys and one girl. the only things i really notice about her are her stick legs, as i always notice stick legs, and her white cowboy boots with silver decorations. they all sit next to and behind my friend and i. one boy rests his mowawk head on the seat with calculated care. they talk the entire way about drugs. they talk: "he does his ... Completed Tasks Sun, 05 May 2013 20:50:37 -0700 http://sf0.org/bassoon/Forced-j-vu/ I've had this task on my list for awhile, but I couldn't figure out how to do it like I wanted.  Initially, I had wanted to do this with watercolors, but that was a bit infeasible after a few practice runs.  But luckily, I was able to get acquainted with ink this year and my skills have grown greatly, which allowed me to do this task. I knew that I wanted to do something similar to a Jackson Pollack painting, but I didn't know how to get that effect with watercolor.  But with ink, I knew tha... Completed Tasks Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:13:07 -0700 http://sf0.org/czach/secret-place/ October 17, 1989. Yours truly was shy of about being ten months old by ten days when the Loma Prieta shook the entire Bay Area. The third game of the world series was interrupted, the cypress freeway collapsed, around 60 people died that day from falling debris. But nail in the coffin was the collapse of the bay bridge section before the truss section. Scooped up by his parents in the back of their '86 Toyota Camry, my parents and I along with hundreds others ran screaming down the lower deck... Completed Tasks Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:08:44 -0700 http://sf0.org/czach/Saucy-Tales/ Condiments do not go gentle into the quiet night Troubled by the sudden warmth of the atmosphere and perturbed by a lack of fog drifting through an open window, I found myself at odds with sleep. Tossing and turning when suddenly, there was for a lack of better words, vision. Flashing downstairs, and into the kitchen this vision took me to the fridge and opened it. I sprang from ill slumber, erect with a cold sweat as my vision had left me with a mystery in the back corner. "My folks just repl... Completed Tasks Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:49:29 -0700 http://sf0.org/lookejr/Ariadne-Unemployed/ So here I am in Santa Fe New Mexico, just finishing up my work with Americorps, and I was browsing through SF0.org when I come across this task. It just so happened that I had worked on maintaining a labyrinth at the park a few days before and had learned that there was another one at the near by cathedral basilica of st. francis of assisi. So when I was out touring the city on our last day here, my team mates and I thought we'd drop by and give it a visit. So we played a version of tag wher... Completed Tasks Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:42:24 -0700 http://sf0.org/Squirmelia/Fun-With-Food/ Did you just pop out a raspberry, or was it on the custard? Stop reading the currant bun and go up the apples. Let's all get in the jam and not bother with a sherbet. I gathered food to play with: A currant bun Some apples and pears A jar of strawberry jam A sherbet dip-dab Some custard A Cadbury's flake I then cooked a raspberry tart, and also made a jelly. Food: On Sunday, I was shown how to use a MaKey MaKey with Scratch by new player Scott Deathboy. The MaKey MaKey is great for playing ... Completed Tasks Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:29:46 -0700 http://sf0.org/ergomatic/Drive/ Here's a link to a derive I did the other day: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211721612178855438945.0004a59e4d8b16f4a2c88 ....it's like that, that's just the way it is. Stucco homes. Lotta dog poo. Quiet. Bums now sleeping on residential sidewaulks. Completed Tasks Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:38:45 -0700 http://sf0.org/bent/Saucy-Tales/ I thought about this task, and the most fitting condiment in my fridge is typhoid. Yes it's not every day you get to share a killer pathogen in your fridge with your friends. This is just the sort of thing that makes the sf0 community so darn special isn't it?<3 Nestled snuggly between the Mott's apple juice and tangerine cups, the box pictured contains vaccine pills with the live typhoid bacterium salmonella typhi. What's typhoid vaccine doing in my fridge? Well the answer to that is an... Completed Tasks Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:50:20 -0700 http://sf0.org/caseydilla/Make-it-Soft/ Made a Companion Cube! Some back story: I had never sewed before, but for my anniversary with my boyfriend, I figured I'd make him something awesome. Usually, I bake customized cakes or cook fancy gourmet meals for loved ones during celebratory events, but my boyfriend lacks both a sweet tooth and a taste for fancy food. The only other options I had were to buy something, sculpt something, or to venture into something I have never done before and sew together a plush. I chose to get out of... Completed Tasks Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:00:05 -0700 http://sf0.org/Defconnexion/BACKRONYMS/ There was a time, not so long ago, when our people were divided. Whether through happenstance or artifice, the system that contains and supports us split our people into two distinct strata. Those who were gifted with superior intellect, grace, and charm became members of the Upper Class. They used their influence and wealth to direct and entertain the people of the Lower Class, who turned the gears of our great machine with their blood, sweat, and tears. The Lower Class multiplied and thrived, ... Completed Tasks Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:17:30 -0700 http://sf0.org/bent/Things-You-Can-Run-Through/ Ran through an A&P [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUugo7PpOOE&feature=youtu.be] Completed Tasks Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:05:24 -0700 http://sf0.org/bent/Discovering-What-Doesnt-Change/ I was going to take a picture of the sun. But it changes too, with every nanosecond, appearing differently at every dawn; a star that we know will one day disappear into the billions-years outflow of energy that feeds terrestrial life. I posit that the only thing that has ever and will always, and upon which the delusion of dimension and infinity is imprinted, is nothingness. Since it's impossible for a localized manifestation of the unified field to function let alone exist in this unrealm, ... Completed Tasks Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:50:01 -0700 http://sf0.org/jcorter/Puns-of-the-Navarone/ ... Completed Tasks Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:09:57 -0800 http://sf0.org/rahan/Drive/ [...] “Or you could drift down the Mississippi River like Tom Sawyer” said the lady who possibly makes the best sweet tea on earth, reorienting the conversation to avoid giving her tea recipe. Pre-Drifting Travels, as i see them, necessarily involve some drifting. I try to seize opportunities, to accept propositions and welcome new experiences... Now, realistically, the Mm’s intervention wasn't a proposition and i definitely should've understood it as the joke it was meant to be but, it... Completed Tasks Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:55:28 -0800 http://sf0.org/samwise/Ace-In-The-Hole/ I never really got into M:tG or any of its cousins, so I went in a different direction from most, drew some inspiration from the pretired Dérive - The Gathering task, and made a Fluxx-style game with cards that represent things you might do or plan or be drawn by while out for a walk to noplace in particular. A number of the cards are of course inspired by SF0 tasks and groups. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet it's actually not too expensive to get a single set of custom playing cards pr... Completed Tasks Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:47:46 -0800 http://sf0.org/wakko/Things-You-Can-Run-Through/ air jungle (hope you're a Creedence fan) secret doors Completed Tasks Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:45:38 -0800 http://sf0.org/joy/The-Godzilla-Approach/ Some of you may have been wondering where I've been and why i haven't done much here as of late. Well long story short, i had a baby! And here he is helping me with this task! I was thinking to myself, how can i make SF 0& play time into one activity. I think you will enjoy the results! It's not a full city being recreated because I wanted to keep the scale large and plush. Completed Tasks Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:10:58 -0800 http://sf0.org/Defconnexion/Ouroboros/ Just over four years ago I met a lovely young lady at a wedding. I was immediately enamored of her gregariousness and penchant for smiling. She had been in the wedding party and was wearing a lovely summer dress during the festivities after the wedding itself. She had tattoos and cute feet and a fantastic smile. My date to said festivities warned me to stay away from the aforementioned young woman. My date told me that the young woman in question was trouble. She would be problematic. I was look... Completed Tasks Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:30:04 -0800 http://sf0.org/bromeo/Trespassing-the-Future/ So, I went to a gorgeous place. A place, that in ten years, will be a hundred feet lower and and covered in a hundred more Mc Mansions. This gorgeous little spot is on top of a cement silo in east kingston. and the view, well, it's absolutely fabulous. Completed Tasks Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:07:47 -0800 http://sf0.org/Defconnexion/Saucy-Tales/ This task makes me sad. In my food cooler, right now, are a number of condiments large, small, and regular. Among them, various sauces from the local Taco Bell in graduating degrees of heat, (so much) soy sauce in tiny clear packets, and catsup (ketchup) from the Chick-Fil-A. Now, I'm not a fan of the Chick-Fil-A. Don't get me wrong, I like a good chicken sandwich just as much as the next playing unit, but the food at the local Chick-Fil-A has the sour taste of bigotry and homophobia on it. Even... Completed Tasks Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:07:46 -0800