Spread SF0 by spotlight skullshines
August 10th, 2006 9:25 PMhe's in aarhus now.
denmark.
hes an artist.
he and his buddies put out a magazine called humannoia (ill post more on how to buy this magazine soon as i know (he's a bit of a free bird, hard to get information from)) .
humannoia is hand made. it filled with their art and their network of friends' art. optional for the submitees is to create a small something to go with the magazine.
there were 60 magazines for the first issue, i beleive. so a submittee would have the option to make, say, 60 bracelets out of old computer parts and each buyer of the magazine would get one. each issue the number gets bigger, both of the little thing one can make and of the ammount of magazines.
when toke visited here, he told me off all this silliness and i decided i'd submit a poem.
this issue they were working on was at the number 180.
time passed. the deadline kept getting put back. i found a bunch (i grabbed 182 exactly) of vials for 2 bucks at a used place.
i later joined sf0.
suddenly, it seemed like a great way to spread sfo. ensuring it would his other artists and art lovers, and mostly folks from other countries.
read along click by next click for the story ...
this is Natazsche (no relation to Nietzche but I have a feeling she could easily school him in a debate on normative modes of thought (hard for me to make that call though, the philosophy of pixies and of Friedrich is currently beyond me)) anyways, she did some living at my house recently, and, as you can see, she did some pooping.
actually she did a lot of pooping. i envisioned her shit as a completion of a task and suggested the idea to her. and it took a long time cause she wont poop on command or even for payment or even in any particular place with any kind of regularity. its not like her irregularity of place to poo gets messy, however. Basically shes like a cat, not just with her cleanliness with being housebroken and shitting but, also in the sense that if you want something out of her well then thats just what she doesnt wanna do suddenly. Insteada bribing her to shit in the vials or making it feel like i was giving her a payment to shit in the vials, i just left them on the table. She knew i had a deadline for this particular task. i started just rolling her miniature sized cigarettes. It was a sort of unspoken thing. She came around. Or maybe its just that tobacco loosens up the bowels. I dunno. Shes gone now, i spose i missed my chance to ask. I hope she flits on back sometime.
and really that, win it with charm attitude is what this whole task harkens back to. If you ask people to do something, often times they just wont. this applies to advertising sf0. if you tell people they're gonna love it and they gotta try it, then it just starts sounding like a cult,
you dont wanna sell it to people or it'll feel like they'll somehow have to pay something. If you demand they give it a shot, they'll never wanna do it.
give them a vial of shit, however, with nothing but a picture of the pixie who pooped it and the name of a web site, no explaination not even a knowledge of where it came from, just a url, i think you may inspire in them a curiosity. they'll want to hit the site, wanna figure out what the deal is. win em with charm. win em with charm.
i just hope customs doesnt have any rules concerning supernatural waste. or non descript vials. the lady at the post office seemed concerned and wrote a special not to go with it. and as for my poem, which i submitted with the 180 small things... i hjad to go short and sweet, it went like this
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Britt ++
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mock piratey turtle
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Jackie H
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Joshua Kelly
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Salty Pete
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Jason 7au
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Cameron
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SNORLAX
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Leonid Brezjnev
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Stone Saints
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Orion
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Dillon S.
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Fonne Tayne
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El Justiciero
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Blue
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Lank
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YellowBear
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Spidere
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ge[off]
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MonkeyBoy Dan
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anna one
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Dan |ØwO|
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I really do like what you did, but I don't like art, magazines, art for sale in magazines, magazine art, poetry for sale, art for sale, things for sale in magazines, magazines for sale etc.
i just hope that, if we ever do get a danish sf0er who came to the site via receiving a vial of pixie shit, s/he reveals that fact upon joining.
what are you doing here if you dont like art?
i too have been looking for a way to use those vials from the junk store! I never bought them because my idea wasn't good enough... it's nice to see that your's was! well done!
Too bad your fairy missed my craiglist posting.
and it did inspire her to get involved on the site.
but shes a lesbian.
(beleive me, i was really trying my charm out for a while)
its hard having such a gorgous naked lady flying around your apartment for so long
Well, it took me a while to get the votes, and now I've already spent half of them on all the tasks I promised to vote for. But this totally deserved it...
I can't believe I never noticed this task until now--nice.
why does this have 12 votes and not have high score.... as the other one with 11 votes does?
aren't all task creations equal? er.... something like that
I can't believe i didn't vote for this!! I think this was at a time that I thought my number of votes was limited. This looks like tons of work and it's awesome. Sorry to the other sf0 spreaders, but I want to see the fleur on this one.
You, my friend, are bat-shit loony. In the best possible way.
This makes me wish I still had votes...