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/raizelmaxx/Trespassing-the-Future/ A place i'm not going to be able to go in 10 years... This question bugged me off for a long time, where i would go? There's no such place here... But then it snapped. My home. Yeah... it's kind of a sad story: My street, as long some others are being expropiated to make a huge Bus Station. I've lived here since i was born, so i've got some affinity here. But we always need to move on...right? Thanks for reading this! Bye~ Completed Tasks Wed, 16 May 2012 16:07:28 -0700 http://sf0.org/samwise/The-Speed-of-Time/ Anyone who's seen an old penny or the Statue of Liberty is familiar with what happens to copper as it ages. It changes colors. This is the result of copper reacting with stuff in the air to form what's called "verdigris", one of a handful of beautiful bluish-green copper compounds. In ancient times, verdigris was very useful as a green pigment, and so people had an interest in accelerating that aging process. One neat trick is to use acetic acid (a natural product of fermentation), which rea... Completed Tasks Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:50 -0700 http://sf0.org/freelanceeditor/Personification/ How do you draw something that cannot be expressed with human anatomy? Let's think. If my trusty iPod with its four-foot headphones were a person, what would it look like? Well, first, let's think about who it would be. It would likely be male, because I consider it a companion presence, and yet I also shower it with Doctor-TARDIS adoration and frustration, which suggests that it's female. Its primary purpose is to play me music, but that's not its only purpose. It's clearly a Jack/Jacquel... Completed Tasks Tue, 15 May 2012 15:13:59 -0700 http://sf0.org/bassoon/Fortune-Not-Cookie/ I really believe that the crux of this project is simply finding somewhere where fortunes aren't expected, somewhere that someone wouldn't expect to open something and discover a plan for their day. Because I study music, most of my life revolves around the daily happenings of opening cases, putting together instruments, and working hard to refine performances. So when I remembered that all of the school clarinets are in a locker that is less than secure, I decided that I would brighten the da... Completed Tasks Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:01 -0700 http://sf0.org/raizelmaxx/Merci/ It wasn't hard, this one. I catually say thank you very much, and making this in a form of a sign isn't that bad. But... to whom i can say thank you...? My teachers! They were always there, teaching me and giving me knowledge, nothing more appropiated! So here you go. I actually liked this task. Sometimes you need to stop and just say "Thank You". Be grateful of the things you have, and more will come. Thank you! PS: "Obrigado" means Thank you in Portuguese. I'm brazilian! The more you kno... Completed Tasks Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:39 -0700 http://sf0.org/bassoon/Sound-Portrait/ "speak - verb \ˈspēk\ intransitive verb 1 a : to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice : talk b (1) : to express thoughts, opinions, or feelings orally (2) : to extend a greeting (3) : to be friendly enough to engage in conversation c (1) : to express oneself before a group (2) : to address one's remarks " -- The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Speaking, to me, is considered to be conveying information through a verbal mediu... Completed Tasks Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:56 -0700 http://sf0.org/freelanceeditor/Puns-of-the-Navarone/ I'm afraid no one'll get it. Anyway, here's my visual pun. Completed Tasks Mon, 14 May 2012 16:42:08 -0700 http://sf0.org/raizelmaxx/Personification/ Hm... this isn't easy. I can't reeally draw, so it was more like a challenge for me. I drew my cellphone: It wasn't easy. I can't really draw hands at all, so i put them in his pockets. Turned out better than i expected. I really like my cellphone, so i chose it to be drawn. His name is Jake. He is a nice guy, always hanging out with people. Doesn't stop talking, and always has some things with him, like a calculator, some games and a calendar. He's very nice, but he relies on coffee too ... Completed Tasks Mon, 14 May 2012 16:19:04 -0700 http://sf0.org/freelanceeditor/Discovering-What-Doesnt-Change/ A trip down memory lane in which I broke a plastic fork. This task sent me scavenging in my time capsule of a closet, where I found my old magic tricks. I loved those things, even though I never got some of them to work. I found some old teensy handbooks and thought i could use those, but then... I saw the Container. The Container is the most annoying magic trick I've ever used. I'm not sure if I ever got it to work, but if I did, it stopped working a long time ago. I don't even remember what... Completed Tasks Mon, 14 May 2012 13:53:28 -0700 http://sf0.org/freelanceeditor/The-Speed-of-Time/ In which I abuse toothpaste in accordance with Einsteinian physics. Time is relative. Time varies in different places. Time is affected by gravity. In fact, your head is slightly older than your feet because of Earth's gravity beneath you. So I'm propping my feet up now to ensure they last longer, but I also accelerated an aging process while I was at it. One moment. There. So I went into my bathroom and replaced my toothpaste. The old one had to go, so I dropped it into the trash can, br... Completed Tasks Mon, 14 May 2012 12:40:41 -0700 http://sf0.org/jillellen/Kiss-a-girl/ I know it's been done, but I love my mother too much not to honor her in this task. My mom is incredible. (To be fair, so is my father, but maybe I'll find another task for him later.) Today was mother's day, and I can't decide how I feel about this holiday. Yes, it's good to take a day and acknowledge your mother, but you should also do that every day. Either way, I enjoy having the excuse to go home and visit her and the rest of my family. My mother is hard worker, dedicated. She's was a ... Completed Tasks Sun, 13 May 2012 21:18:51 -0700 http://sf0.org/bassoon/Personification/ Meet that chap Stick. He's really quite the popular fellow. He seems to get along equally with both guys and girls, and he's always a popular bedmate. He does seem to have a bit of a strange obsession with lips, however...ah, whatever! We all have our hangups! Completed Tasks Sun, 13 May 2012 20:33:51 -0700 http://sf0.org/bassoon/Smoke-and/ At first, I wanted to do mirrored text, but that seemed too intuitive, and I was hoping to go for something a bit more creative. So after a bit of thinking, I settled on a heart. The heart is symmetrical, and it makes a statement. What better thing for random passersby to see? I ran into a bit of difficulty hanging it up in the bathroom, as I thought the mirror extended the length of the wall. But after a bit of creative paper folding, I was able to convince the heart to stick to the mirr... Completed Tasks Sun, 13 May 2012 17:15:26 -0700 http://sf0.org/cheeseface223/Campaign-Trail/ All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. Ladies and Gentlemen of SF0, I present to you the application to the seat of High Senator over the City of Portland. This seat will be shared between myself and a Co-senator that has conspired wi... Completed Tasks Sat, 12 May 2012 14:04:37 -0700 http://sf0.org/fixthefernback/Smoke-and/ We put up that Conan poster in the bathroom so he can be the ultimate judge of BMs. Plus, who doesn't want a friend to hang out with while you make your peeps, poops, and pukes? Completed Tasks Thu, 10 May 2012 14:38:00 -0700 http://sf0.org/jillellen/Poetic-Imagery/ When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. By Walt Whitman. When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up... Completed Tasks Wed, 09 May 2012 11:08:29 -0700 http://sf0.org/jillellen/Something-Very-Good/ I sat on the stairs of the Art Institute of Chicago and waited. I watched. I pondered: What counts as something 'fantastic'? I found it. A woman had a bag of groceries from the nearby Walgreens was crossing and dropped her bag, her groceries scattered. One. Two. Three people stopped to help her collect her items. As quickly as they had stopped to help her, they had vanished. Strangers melted back into the masses, and the woman continued on with her dented produce with a smile on her face. ... Completed Tasks Tue, 08 May 2012 23:02:34 -0700 http://sf0.org/samwise/Journey-To-The-End-Of-The-Night-Los-Angeles-Five-Years-Running/ I'm still not sure quite how it came to pass that I flew down to LA to run a checkpoint for Journey. I think it helped that I volunteered before I had too much time to think about it. My friends Mike and Camilla, who graciously gave me a floor to crash on and spent the weekend driving me around, came with me to Waldo's garage to get the place set up. I'd spent weeks plotting and scheming over what I was going to put the runners through, and amassing the materials to make it all happen. The g... Completed Tasks Tue, 08 May 2012 16:17:44 -0700 http://sf0.org/Lincoln/Journey-To-The-End-Of-The-Night-Los-Angeles-Five-Years-Running/ This will be a text-light write-up. If you want a text-heavy write-up of how a Journey is created, go check out last year's praxis. Between last year and this year I have moved. I have moved into a luxurious house with more garden than I know what to do with. I have spent the last year building, fixing and cleaning this new place. It has taken over a lot of the time I would normally spend tasking, but I have made it a point to task a little bit every day (most days). So when I moved to this a... Completed Tasks Tue, 08 May 2012 03:06:03 -0700 http://sf0.org/smartkitty314/Journey-To-The-End-Of-The-Night-Los-Angeles-Five-Years-Running/ It started as all good journey start: with a fight. "If no one else could go then you said that you wouldn't go alone! Besides, it's a bad neighborhood and it's Cinco de Mayo and you'll be all alone and if anything happens to you--" And I could hear the underlying sentiment in her words. You do a lot of awesome things. Why do you have to play some crazy street game, and why now? Can't you just stay home with us, and we'll go watch Avengers like a normal family and smile and it'll all be fine.... Completed Tasks Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:30 -0700