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Stark
Level 3: 171 points
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Last Logged In: August 24th, 2009
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The Taking Tree by Stark

January 11th, 2009 7:12 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Hide ten objects in ten trees.

For this task I set out to focus on the objects first, and worry about the tree part after. So I spent a good deal of late November and most of December working on these objects. Somehow I got the idea of doing giant spices (like ridiculously oversized, in some cases like easily a power of ten larger than the original spices) and I did seven (7) different ones. I made colossal coriander, cardamom, star anise, clove, black pepper, nutmeg (complete with mace!), and cumin. I also made a fatter, bulkier version of a first generation iPod. I painted the spices to match the originals—with mixed results, generally good. I also decided to reuse the shirt I got from p00n's epic disintermediate the proof button (with the printed face from his reverse shoplifting); as well as the last remaining flowers I had from Dax's tramp bouquet (which has continued to inspire me, long beyond reason). I made some pouches out of an old pair of jeans and got the stuff together and hit the town to hang them up in some good trees. I didn't plan the trees very far in advance, but I did end up picking most of them with very specific people or tasks in mind, just a little nod in everyone's directions, y'know?

Anyway, MN0 players who want those objects could probably find the trees in question with a minimum of poking around. Or you can leave them for passers-by to find, and let me know if you notice the objects gone or not.

Enjoy the photos which document the task in considerable detail. . .

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colossal curry!
weapon of choice
anise seeds
pods bulked out with foil too
star anise
clove form
unbaked clove
nutmeg
mace
nutmeg
cardamom pod
cardamom pod II
ready to paint
black pepper
1st gen iPod
firewire, earphone jack, hold switch
finished, painted sculpey objects
All ten objects
10 Awesome Object
enter old jeans
some progress
all ten bags
site one: loring park
It's a pine tree
bag hanging
tasking uniform?
second tree
2nd tree
third tree
tree three location
tree four
tree four
tree five
27th & Garfield
Tree six
tree six
star anise
trees seven and eight
tree seven
...so I hid it
tree seven hollow
tree eight
tree eight
tree nine
...the university of St. Thomas!
tree nine
Tree Ten
pretty high up there...
Tree Ten

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posted by susy derkins on January 11th, 2009 9:40 PM

Those spices look obscene, BU. Definitely a good thing for when strangers open the bags.
You, sir, go well beyond the call of tasking duty, as always. My votewallet is dry and it will stay that way unless doing laundry on crutches becomes an approved task. Back to DIY (ripple-like?) votes.
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Thank you!
posted by Burn Unit on January 12th, 2009 6:39 AM

But woah woah woah: I know we're the same and all, but when I do this task it's going to be about the trees.

I assumed you meant the "obscene" part in only the best way.

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posted by susy derkins on January 12th, 2009 4:50 PM

You schizophrenics make me dizzy.

right
posted by Stark on January 12th, 2009 8:22 PM

right.

right, susy.

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posted by Lincøln on January 11th, 2009 11:39 PM

Beautiful. As always.

Craft.
And I'm out of words.

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posted by Stark on January 15th, 2009 7:44 AM

Thanks! That means a lot coming from you. In my recent campaign for real honesty, I must confess I felt great about my effort on this task. It must be bad timing, because I wanted more votes.

Craved them, in fact. Daily I hunger for them. I am a ghost, a shade, trespassing the landscape of dying dreams, rummaging through heaps of desire and abandoned houses. Always searching for votes, and beneath them, more votes still.

Lo even this comment is such a desire, a naked hope standing on the barren blasted hellscape of the rssx feed.

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posted by Burn Unit on January 15th, 2009 7:58 AM

You are pathetic.

This is a naked appeal for votes using the comments.

Rookie.

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posted by Lincøln on January 15th, 2009 8:28 AM

I wish I could vote twice. For either of those completions. I wish I could have the moral vacancy to create sock puppets to vote twice for me. Instead another comment to bring attention to a beautiful work of art. And a wonderful gift. I don't know If I could ever give away the flowers I got from Dax like you did.

A shared longing for moral vacancy
posted by Stark on January 15th, 2009 8:33 AM

believe me, it took a measure of courage. But I believe it had to be done. It was a necessary sacrifice. In the end I felt the flowers demand and inspire exactly this kind of paying forward. It's not the first time, after all.

He did it again!
posted by Burn Unit on January 15th, 2009 9:42 AM

Shameless.

Hack! You are a HACK.

Sock -voting is an interesting topic.
posted by done on January 15th, 2009 10:11 AM

After experiencing the current voting system for a few months now I still don't feel like this is it. I mean it's a possibility to have it like that, it works and I personally didn't ever run out of votes since "tax" was reduced to 50% but still I think it is like lowtek once said that votes are maybe the better motivation for tasking than voting-points. The reason why I think sock-voting is not a solution is that a sock-vote just gives extra points, but not really extra appreciation, so that's why it is not really worth anything here.

I wish all the fantastic socks here were real!

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posted by done on January 12th, 2009 1:14 AM

The spices are very pretty!

Thanks!
posted by Stark on January 15th, 2009 7:45 AM

I admit the nutmeg is my favorite, with cardamom a close second. Though I think color-palette-wise, the cumin or coriander are probably the "most accurate." The star anise, the first one I completed, is the most frustrating. I could have made that so much better.

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posted by done on January 15th, 2009 9:23 AM

Oh, I especially liked the star anise.
I just realised I don't have any idea how star anise tastes. I have to try it.

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posted by Stark on January 15th, 2009 9:30 AM

think licorice, similar to regular anise

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on January 15th, 2009 7:52 PM

Yeh, the anise is my favorite. The smell reminds me of Christmas.

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posted by rongo rongo on January 15th, 2009 6:55 PM

Beautiful. And the iPod adds extra surrealness, and the bags are totally going the extra mile.
I think the clove is my favorite.

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posted by Stark on January 15th, 2009 8:47 PM

Thank you. I think that's a wonderful compliment and I appreciate it. Personally I do consider putting them near the homes of so many MN0 players without being seen to be the extra mile. LOL. If any of them ever play or log on again, they might notice this proof and enjoy. Unless their neighbors get there first in which case they'll just have to brood over their lost opportunity. . .

"your character never misses a connection..."

one of the dupont ave ones is literally in Oliver's front freaking yard