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Burn Unit
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Floss by Burn Unit, anna one, Spidere, Lank, Jellybean of Thark, alice gray, Raymond Luxury Yacht, Lincøln, The Mark, Rainbow Bright, IntermezzoBeard, Heatherlynn, John G. X., Jeremy Cezanne, The Vixen, SNORLAX, Geronimo, Sean Mahan, the band-aid bandit, Nan O'fith, Blue, Meta tron, aaron rhodes, Fonne Tayne, rongo rongo, hmrpita (Lenore), GYØ Ben, Cthulhu Kitty, Creeping Like Frost, Cameron, YellowBear, Ariock Knight, bigglesworth, lark, Mattack!

August 20th, 2007 10:08 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Floss with a friend. Intertwine your floss.

Document.

EPIC FLOSSING!



50 people (well, 48 people, a cat and a ferret) all flossing together! Across time and space! Bringing cities and nations together with thin waxy fibers! We are all intertwined by our love for each other, the game, and dental hygiene.

See how all of us share one amazingly long piece of floss!

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This was certainly an Epic Collaboration, but the lion's share of the work was accomplished by Lank (coordinating and cajoling), anna one (inspiration and integration), and Burn Unit, who is responsible for providing nearly 1/3 of the photos below!

Thanks to all of our intrepid flossers!

Enjoy!

From Burn Unit: When Lank sent the invite I felt I needed something more than just me or some players I know. I wanted to challenge myself a little bit. Most of the Minnesota players, myself included, are pretty heavily involved in Convergence, a yearly con in Minneapolis (several of us help build and run connie's space lounge--here's some pictures and more pictures). This much-beloved event draws a fervent and growing attendance base of atavistic crazies, most of whom I consider either friends, good acquaintances, or people worth knowing. So I decided to go talk to these various friends and floss with them, in the style Lank suggested. I just walked around and asked people for their picture. It became so easy to ask people to floss for the camera--"Hey Green Arrow, great costume! can I get your picture? But you gotta floss, okay?" The Klingon is one of these fen, a member of the up to five Klingon "ships' companies" that visit Convergence every year. I'm thinking of starting my own collection of floss photos, just on the basis of how fun and easy it is to ask people to floss. My favorite is probably the woman I call raver bride. You can't quite make out the dress in the closeup used for this completion, but she's the one with the glowy blue bracelet. She got married at Convergence so that photo is taken on her wedding night--as I've said elsewhere: Raver Bride For the Win.

- smaller

Everybody!

Everybody!


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Killer tomato

Killer tomato

As mentioned in the comments below, there was a killer tomato among the CONvergence pix. Somehow that got lost in the shuffle--perhaps not sent to Lank by Burn Unit? not sure. Here it is though.



18 vote(s)



Terms

collaborationbased, shplank

47 comment(s)

I love it!
posted by Loki on August 20th, 2007 10:15 PM

Awesome completion. You all rock!

What's the nifty music?

goood question...
posted by anna one on August 20th, 2007 10:18 PM

it's Skokian by Hot Butter off the album Incredibly Strange Music (vol. 2)

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posted by SNORLAX on August 20th, 2007 10:26 PM

Thank you Lank and Anna!!! That was beautifully put together.



And thank you, to our excellent senator, Burn Unit, for the flossing klingon among others

Thanks. The music is a great finishing touch.
posted by Loki on August 20th, 2007 10:27 PM

I've watched it four times already. Fucking awesome.

Shame that with almost every active player *in* the collaboration you won't get the votes you deserve. Still, its epicness did not go unnoticed. You've made my day.

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posted by Blue on August 20th, 2007 10:31 PM

Being involved in epic flossing is a super vote in my mind.
it is never a shame to have every major player involved.
That is what the front page is all about!!!
Awesome funkin work Lank… glad everyone finally got their pictures in so we could finally see this!

Look at that big hunk of black names…

Floss by anna one, Lank in SF, El Capitan Barbapoca, alice gray, Burn Unit, Conor Pot Pie, Lincoln, Alterius, Rainbow Bright, Beardwater, Heatherlynn, John G. X., Jeremy Cezanne, The Vixen, WHITE RABBIT, General Geronimo, Sean Mahan, DQ loves, Nan O'fith, LanKisser, Meta tron, aaron rhodes, El B, rongo rongo, Lenore (hmrpita), Ben Forbes, President Socks, Creeping Like Frost, Cameron, EvilBear Defender of SF, Ariock Knight, mr. bigglesworth, kannon, Mattack!




Fricken University… How come I am lumped in with those guys?
I needs my own colour.

But nevermind all that… Lank, like I need to tell you this be awesome… you really ShpLANKed this task!

!
posted by The Vixen on August 20th, 2007 10:43 PM

We rock. And so do our teeth.

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posted by The Villain on August 20th, 2007 10:45 PM

Awww... you guys are so cute with the floss all up in your teeth together.

I am so tempted to intervene with a pair of scissors, if only to make someone cry.

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posted by Rainbow Bright on August 20th, 2007 10:45 PM

ROCK! The Video is classic!

My floss, my loss?
posted by Bex. on August 20th, 2007 11:04 PM

Damn! Awesome! Is it too late to participate??? I kept forgetting about this one and wanting to do it when i have my work (costume) face on (will happen this week)...
So awesome, curse my tardiness!

Drop by my Hollywood office and we'll do lunch
posted by John G. X. on August 20th, 2007 11:47 PM

Haha. Props to the music composer! That's on a par with Barber's Adagio for Strings in its cinematic power.

The floss editing between frames was also Oscar-worthy. Hooray for floss!

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posted by YellowBear on August 20th, 2007 11:47 PM

Wow, well done!

(Shålahco, dont say shplanked! I'm tellin you it should be shpelleowbeared. Lank, you totally shpellowbeared the shit out of this task)

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posted by Sean Mahan on August 21st, 2007 12:51 AM

Alright, who's the Klingon?

TWO?!
posted by GYØ Ben on August 21st, 2007 3:38 AM

TWO Equivalenz players? Well, I guess that's just the way it goes. Love the video editing, good job all :)

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posted by Lincøln on August 21st, 2007 4:30 AM

I really enjoyed flossing with all of you.
Especially you-know-who.

If a clean mouth is a happy mouth
posted by Jellybean of Thark on August 21st, 2007 7:26 AM

Then these be the happiest mouths to sail the seven seas.

Great Job, Lank!
posted by Ariock Knight on August 21st, 2007 8:56 AM

If I could vote and send it to you, I would.

Love it love it LOVE IT!
posted by Creeping Like Frost on August 21st, 2007 6:20 PM

This came out just swimmingly!

The music is so delightful. Hoorah and congrats to the piecers-together of this excellent, excellent completion!

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posted by Meta tron on August 21st, 2007 6:25 PM

I'm voting for the masterful videomanship and general greatness of this whole idea in the first place! Come one come all and join me in pressing the button here!

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posted by Zhee Meatss Needz Cheffing on August 21st, 2007 7:28 PM

BIGGLESSWORTH!!!!

Poorly completed.
posted by Burn Unit on August 21st, 2007 7:46 PM

Dress it up with video if you want. This is just another one of those bullshit photoshop tasks.

**EDIT 8/23/07: this comment was originally posted in disguise as Rubin Starset, to see if I could emulate his style. Comments referring to it below were directed either at Rubin or in reference to seeing thru this ruse.

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posted by Lank on August 21st, 2007 8:18 PM

Rubin hates it! SUCCESS!!!

But wait... something's fishy here... Spider sense tingling...

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posted by anna one on August 21st, 2007 8:27 PM

Damn it 'Rubin', you're such an asshole.

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posted by Darkaardvark on August 21st, 2007 9:06 PM

You got me, sneaky bastard. I had an angry reply all typed up and everything.

This post courtesy of Glasnost sunshine laws

Yeah… well answer me this…
posted by Blue on August 21st, 2007 10:06 PM

why don't you go burn your unit on a stupid burned unit you unit burner!!!

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posted by Ariock Knight on August 21st, 2007 10:25 PM

French toast!

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posted by Fonne Tayne on August 21st, 2007 10:54 PM

EVIL!! evil rubin....


fuck you are just one of those desktop jockeys anyway....


you should try aloe vera, it helps with units that have been burned......

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posted by Orion on August 21st, 2007 11:53 PM

The video couldn't have been put together any better. Awesome.

Hmmm…
posted by Blue on August 22nd, 2007 12:33 AM

That is a very simple, one might almost say low tech way, of putting nice…

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posted by Meta tron on August 22nd, 2007 3:07 AM

This could end up like the mad hatter's tea party...

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posted by Charlie Fish on August 22nd, 2007 9:09 AM

Hey, how come I wasn't invited? Just 'coz I'm EquivalenZ!

I'm not bitter - votes!!!

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posted by Ink Tea on August 22nd, 2007 9:15 AM

Hey Burn Unit-

We flossed a Killer Tomato- how did that not end up on here?

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posted by anna one on August 22nd, 2007 10:50 AM

he's in there... unless you meant someone other than mattack...

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posted by Ian Kizu-Blair on August 22nd, 2007 3:28 PM

I can't stop looking at the ferret picture.

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posted by Meta tron on August 22nd, 2007 3:36 PM

On a scale of one to ten, how impressed is Mr. Bigglesworth by the concept of flossing?

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posted by SNORLAX on August 22nd, 2007 3:40 PM

proly fairly indifferent. when you hold the back of their necks, much like you would hold a puppy or kitten from its neck, it makes them sleep

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posted by Ink Tea on August 22nd, 2007 5:38 PM

Burn added the Killer Tomato in the bottom. I didn't mean Mattack. I wore Mattack's head! I knew he wasn't a tomato!

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posted by anna one on August 22nd, 2007 10:52 PM

oh THAT killer tomato...
awesome.

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posted by Lank on August 22nd, 2007 11:02 PM

Yay Killer Tomato!

Okay okay
posted by Burn Unit on August 23rd, 2007 6:56 AM

I did masquerade as Rubin, though I guess technically photoshop or something like it played a big role in making this happen, stitching all the photos together.

BUT, I think anyone who was taken in should leave their comments intact (I'm lookin at you , S P A R, restore the bitchin, it's funny!)

BTW, that face partially obscured behind the killer tomato's left shoulder is none other than OliverX, whose presence haunts our tasks to this day...

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posted by Ink Tea on August 23rd, 2007 8:24 AM

Burn,

I thought that was Olly!

love,
inky

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posted by Terpsichore on August 27th, 2007 4:59 PM

this is wonderful.

i can only hope to be a part of something so epic in my lifetime.

well done, sir.

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posted by Charlie Fish on October 12th, 2007 7:49 AM

This got a lot of votes considering that half the active SF0 population couldn't vote (because they were collaborating)...

Tardy tardy tardy...
posted by Bex. on October 12th, 2007 12:55 PM

Better late than never?
flossgypsy27219.jpg
Though I had already done this task before this ever went up, so maybe it was always hopeless for me...

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posted by anna one on October 12th, 2007 1:20 PM

Wow.
That's spectacular!

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posted by The Vixen on October 12th, 2007 1:28 PM

You're my hero. No, not everyone elses, MINE.

Yay!
posted by Lank on October 12th, 2007 9:33 PM

Nice one, Bex.