Burn Unit's Favorite Praxis
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...
Look closer... Closer.....CLOSER Upon briefly pondering the importance magnitude of uploading a single picture by which to introduce myself to both my own teammates and all the rest of you players, it was pretty clear that not just any old picture w...
Lamppost at 2861 N Elston, Chicago, IL Installed at 1PM, Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Duration: STILL THERE (10.18.08, 10.30AM) Intended to break down tension between motorists and bicyclists in a city where the two are particularly violent to...
"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 ...
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...
Mr. G. and Meredithian wanted to try out pole dancing... but where to find a pole? The local bus stop! Things we learned about pole dancing: Pole dancing is HARD! We looked at some moves and poses online, and picked a few things that looked pret...
Mission: Mail a Penny* Gummy bears must live in a world scaled for humans. Even a simple task like mailing a penny requires hard work and cooperation. The Red Team has volunteered for this mission. The Red Team leader assesses the situation. ...
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...
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...
COMMENT: What happens when you make a comment on a favorite? Does it show up in your friend's command centers? Does it show up on the task? In your history? I don't know. I've never tried it. But I do know that this task is the stuff. Extract of the stuff, even. Very highly refined. Street value must be enormous. So, if these comments do show up somewhere other than here and draw some additional attention to it, then that's a good thing.
And you know, I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if the task itself showed a count of how many people have favorited it? Then a favorite would serve the same function as a super-vote, but without all the score-keeping complications. You could even pick out the really awesome low score tasks from past eras by sorting on favorites, which would make vote inflation a little less painful for us old fogies.
Then again, the cornucopia that is SSI has done so many nice things for us in the last few months that asking for more is pretty rude. "Dear Uncle Joe, thank you for the house, the bail money, the kidney, introducing me to my wife, saving mom's life last week during the burglary attempt, and the box of hand made chocolates you sent. Can I borrow fifty bucks? I spent my paycheck on liquor and video peep-shows again."
ⓜoustache ⓔnvy: Location: Roof of Doe Library, UC Berkeley In observing Banned Books Week (Sept 27-Oct 4th) we decided to make a 'banned' trip to the roof of Doe Library! Given the current buzz about various people protesting various things a...
Preparation Rainy: I wanted to do this task, because I like water. After some thought (and discussion with pre-school teacher friend), I decided that ice shapes with some natural food tint coloring in them was the way to go. Ice sculpture! Obviously...
What's better than organic green tea? Free range SOYLENT green tea! The full write-up is in the photos. Clicky clicky.