15 + 35 points
The SFZEROPRACTICAL by susy derkins
July 12th, 2008 2:45 AM
OK, to date the SFØ community has only seen awesome-all-around completions of this task. So, in the interest of balance and representativeness I´m posting my completed SFZero Practical, so you can see the difference.
This is an incomplete, disorganized and quite irresponsible task/test. I am so glad that SFØ didn´t have it as a requirement when I enrolled. And yet, it was fun to do, once I let go of freaking out about finishing it: it felt good to skip the questions I just couldn´t find a way to connect to.
Most of my answers got rolled into a video (which is below, if you´re tired of reading), but the video is not as self explanatory as others, so you´ll need a map to find stuff. Here it is, the map:
00:00 Talk to a plant or animal
Olive, the praying mantis; we talked about the weather and whether the glass in old cathedrals is really a liquid
dripping slooowly.
00:13 Meditate and slow yourself down
I meditated while sitting on top of a pedestrian bridge in the middle of a highway. I really tried but I couldn´t cause any noticeable slowing down of the world. Then I moved to another location, there the slowing down worked much better.
00:37 Getting to know you
Don Germán Romero, behind the wheel of the bus, interested in politics and women, who talks dramatically (and dangerously) with his hands while driving
00:46 Compose something short and beautiful
I gave some bouganvileas bushes a haircut. Well, foliage-cut. They were fiery -lots of thorns!- and had started to engulf the street bench. The beauty was on reopening a pedestrian sitting space.
00:56 Paper life cycle-part 1/Questionable clothing/Quickly plan something devious/Use Google to search for something you´re missing in your life
I planned to deviously roll several answers into one. I search for paper cranes folding instructions with Google. I folded four using the SFZeroPractical as the raw material. I wore a headdress made with the cranes plus the rectangles left from the pages.
01:06 Questionable clothing proper
I demonstrate that´s all I am wearing.
02:24 Luxuria-modifed Mu dance
I took my headdress to do the Mu dance, which featured SFØPPC, SFØPractical Paper Crane, doing the piece entitled "Nothing! or On Sheer Desperation"
02:50 The Swedish Chef
I made some pressure-grilled strawberry and grapes (which are non-cookable fruits, IMHO), and found that the procedure caused the most interesting flavors and textures to be sucked out of them.
03:00 Obviousness
I knew that I just *had* to blink.
03:11 Time for Revolution
I present you SFØPPC Hill! (also known as "Burning Crane Hill").
03:26 Paper life cycle-second part
Ta da!
Now, before you watch it, you must know that the soundtrack of the video is Fibonacci music from here that "consists of the first eight Fibonacci numbers. For each new number that is performed, the note length is decreased rotationally by 1/2 or 1/3. After four steps of the sequence are completed the tune starts over at the root, one octave up, while the other one continues, so there is an overlapping effect". And is also very very cool. I used it in order to hypnotize the examining board so that they could give away some undeserved positive marks.
Ah, and for "Wetsuit" I threw myself, fully clothed, into a transient body of water known as "the rain", I included proof of wetness afterwards and a self portrait of my camera in its own cozy wetsuit.
Finally, I sent a bribe-link for Oswald, to be considered for (with) "The Swedish Chef".
See? That´s how one shifts the grading curve downwards...
This is an incomplete, disorganized and quite irresponsible task/test. I am so glad that SFØ didn´t have it as a requirement when I enrolled. And yet, it was fun to do, once I let go of freaking out about finishing it: it felt good to skip the questions I just couldn´t find a way to connect to.
Most of my answers got rolled into a video (which is below, if you´re tired of reading), but the video is not as self explanatory as others, so you´ll need a map to find stuff. Here it is, the map:
00:00 Talk to a plant or animal
Olive, the praying mantis; we talked about the weather and whether the glass in old cathedrals is really a liquid
dripping slooowly.
00:13 Meditate and slow yourself down
I meditated while sitting on top of a pedestrian bridge in the middle of a highway. I really tried but I couldn´t cause any noticeable slowing down of the world. Then I moved to another location, there the slowing down worked much better.
00:37 Getting to know you
Don Germán Romero, behind the wheel of the bus, interested in politics and women, who talks dramatically (and dangerously) with his hands while driving
00:46 Compose something short and beautiful
I gave some bouganvileas bushes a haircut. Well, foliage-cut. They were fiery -lots of thorns!- and had started to engulf the street bench. The beauty was on reopening a pedestrian sitting space.
00:56 Paper life cycle-part 1/Questionable clothing/Quickly plan something devious/Use Google to search for something you´re missing in your life
I planned to deviously roll several answers into one. I search for paper cranes folding instructions with Google. I folded four using the SFZeroPractical as the raw material. I wore a headdress made with the cranes plus the rectangles left from the pages.
01:06 Questionable clothing proper
I demonstrate that´s all I am wearing.
02:24 Luxuria-modifed Mu dance
I took my headdress to do the Mu dance, which featured SFØPPC, SFØPractical Paper Crane, doing the piece entitled "Nothing! or On Sheer Desperation"
02:50 The Swedish Chef
I made some pressure-grilled strawberry and grapes (which are non-cookable fruits, IMHO), and found that the procedure caused the most interesting flavors and textures to be sucked out of them.
03:00 Obviousness
I knew that I just *had* to blink.
03:11 Time for Revolution
I present you SFØPPC Hill! (also known as "Burning Crane Hill").
03:26 Paper life cycle-second part
Ta da!
Now, before you watch it, you must know that the soundtrack of the video is Fibonacci music from here that "consists of the first eight Fibonacci numbers. For each new number that is performed, the note length is decreased rotationally by 1/2 or 1/3. After four steps of the sequence are completed the tune starts over at the root, one octave up, while the other one continues, so there is an overlapping effect". And is also very very cool. I used it in order to hypnotize the examining board so that they could give away some undeserved positive marks.
Ah, and for "Wetsuit" I threw myself, fully clothed, into a transient body of water known as "the rain", I included proof of wetness afterwards and a self portrait of my camera in its own cozy wetsuit.

Finally, I sent a bribe-link for Oswald, to be considered for (with) "The Swedish Chef".
See? That´s how one shifts the grading curve downwards...
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posted by GYØ Ben on July 12th, 2008 12:21 PM
You give yourself too little credit, Susy :)
posted by teucer on July 12th, 2008 3:30 PM
Vote for giving it a damn good run, finishing or not.
posted by Loki on July 16th, 2008 1:43 AM
An elegant completion, as always. I really like the questionable clothing sequence, and it works perfectly with the music. (And, also, what if when it got to your hand it was holding another hand, and then the whole sequence was repeated with another person, and then when it got to the far hand, it encountered yet another hand. . . )
The gummies think you looked quite lovely wearing the cranes. (They wanted to name your cranes "Test Bear" and "White Bear" while watching the video, but Evil Sugar talked them out of it.)