http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure Playtime Anti-Boredom Society http://sf0.org/SFmedia/rss.gif http://sf0.org/ The Paraleisural Game of Freedom and Adventure http://sf0.org/pixieofhugs/Saint-George/ Dear everyone, Sorry this was so long in the writing up. The duel is indeed still going on, but due to a number of difficulties which may include, but are not limited to nuclear waste, zombie uprisings, raptors, dancing hippos and metaphysical crisis, it took awhile to write up said praxis We from PD0 and the Adherents of the Repeated Meme present to you: TASKING DUEL, Part One! Senator Pixie I was quite stunned was i when I received news of a marriage proposition. I am Pixie! I am free as ... Completed Tasks Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:29:07 -0700 http://sf0.org/randompath/Trespassing/ It's sometime after 1 am when we leave Pick Me Up. There's the clear understanding that we don't want to end the night, but have neither a destination nor a plan: the best way to start an adventure. I haven't had a drink since well before departing the Hungry Brain, but I'm high on the lateness of the hour, on the company, or perhaps just on the spirit of randomness and adventure I haven't indulged in for way too long. I reach across you to search the glovebox as I drive off, and find a Night... Completed Tasks Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:10:06 -0700 http://sf0.org/naming/Fortune-Not-Cookie/ At the Chicago Public Library, one can still find the check-out borrower record index cards in many of the books. Snag them and use them as bookmarks. Start tearing them in pieces, deposit random notes to the outside world buried inside your returning books. A little more orderly: chopped into the appropriate shapes, these check-out cards become fortunes. Each is a simple summary / impression of the book being returned. Completed Tasks Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:43:56 -0700 http://sf0.org/mynameissoil/Mud-luscious/ I really enjoyed making these dirt thingys, it was like revisiting my childhood. I plan on making many more of these. Completed Tasks Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:46:06 -0700 http://sf0.org/quitepeculiar/While-True/ My idea for this task at first was.... "I'll drink indefinitely!" Then I remembered my distaste for vomiting. Oh, that pun wasn't intentional, sorry. Anyway, I thought a pub crawl would be nice to do, but I never got around to doing it. Instead, I submit to you a walk I did last week from Hackney to South Bank, via Westminster Bridge. View Larger Map It was madness. I basically left the house of my friends' and went for a walk, vaguely intending to walk to the Sainsbury's in Dalston. Up... Completed Tasks Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:11:46 -0700 http://sf0.org/quitepeculiar/Make-it-Soft/ So, for something soft, I figured I'd knit something: a colourful labbit cosy for Mr Scuffles. Since he's small, Mr Scuffles needed a blankie of sorts, so I took some different-coloured wool to make something that could be wrapped around him. Now that he's got his own little blanket/cosy, he won't be lost in the folds of my duvet anymore. Word. Completed Tasks Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:24:09 -0700 http://sf0.org/randompath/Trespassing-the-Future/ Two summers ago, I had a new roommate move in with me in a rear apartment just above what used to be The Hair Mechanic. Our apartment was an old place, on a month to month lease that specifically allowed us to paint the walls as we pleased. I had spent most of 9 months taking advantage of this, accosting friends with sharpies demanding they leave something and painting my walls and ceiling. But she had a better plan. She posted an ad on craigslist offering food and beer to artists who wanted to... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:02:47 -0700 http://sf0.org/artmouse/Room-With-a-Better-View/ Many instances of travel to new, foreign locales ( regardless of the amount of people around ) oftentimes I find myself isolated by shyness, and searching for any familiar element to the landscape. In my recent sojourn to the wonderful Hawaiian island of Maui, a great way to dig deeper into the natural element of the land is to drive the entire length of the Hana Highway, a windy stretch of road that encompasses half of the island and skirts both the windward rainforest & leeward desert f... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:41:36 -0700 http://sf0.org/betmonty/The-Callouses-on-Your-Hands/ I've always been a curious person. Even as a child, I always wanted to know how things work. I wouldn't call it a passion or anything, just a sort of fact of my existence, I suppose. I've always felt it was this curiosity that lead me to work with computers as often and as closely as I have in my life. I figure curiosity leads to observation, observation leads to deduction and so on, until you end up being the sort of person who looks at a problem not as an obstacle, but a fun new problem to s... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:26:52 -0700 http://sf0.org/missselah/Craaank/ Double tasking with Pilgrim's Progress? Why, I don't see any rules against that at all! I rather feel that I pushed Pilgrim's Progress to the limit, because I have never pushed myself harder, physically, but whatever. Was I technically not moving? Well, I was sitting down, but there was a solid 24 hours of driving. So. I will let you, as the reader, decide. The only times I did stop, I immediately went for a bottle, rocked a baby, tore my automobile apart, etc. Staying up for 24 hours is hard... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:45:09 -0700 http://sf0.org/saturday/Exquisite-Drive/ Kate Saturday to Lincoln: ok so here's how you get to the river of stars: go out your door and cross the street. follow the wall. when you run out of wall walk towards the main drag. at the garden, turn towards your old haunts. pass a dinosaur, a bear (or "bear,") a center of community, and a prime hang-out spot. once outside known territory, go uphill. at the wide shoulder, turn in a sinister direction. pass the vinyards. hop the gate. continue uphill until you are there. return and tell ... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:45:53 -0700 http://sf0.org/sirshplankton/The-Arcane-Ensconced/ WARNING: Long emotional life story praxis coming through. The story needs to be read to understand the difficulty of what i did and why i did it the way i did. It will be hard to understand seeing as i won't use names and the dynamics are fairly complex. But the act itself was simple. And is probably not done. This is also why i haven't been as active in things like newsletters/podcast as id' like to be. If you want to see it as just a praxis, skip to part three. ADDITIONAL NOTE: The only came... Completed Tasks Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:12:25 -0700 http://sf0.org/mynameissoil/Make-it-Soft/ If you have ever rubbed warm ash between your fingers then you will know what I am talking about. If you haven't then i suggest you do. Haha! this probably sounds strange, I'm an artist so i spend a lot of time around charcoal, which is similar to ash. I wanted to take an object and turn it to that soft grayish material. I found a book that I knew I was never going to read, I had no desire to read it. I'm sure it was an interesting book but I have other books I would rather read. At one ti... Completed Tasks Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:05:37 -0700 http://sf0.org/Darkaardvark/Pure-Evil/ BEWARE! As you may know from some of my previous praxes, I was really into crosswords for a while. I'm still into crosswords, but not in as a big a way. Anyhow, back when I was really into crosswords, I sat down and actually made a crossword. This is harder than it sounds, and in fact despite efforts, I haven't been able to duplicate the attempt. That may be because this crossword is no ordinary crossword. It is an evil crossword, a PURE EVIL crossword. So evil, in fact, that it was rejecte... Completed Tasks Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:44:46 -0700 http://sf0.org/mynameissoil/Smoke-and/ I wrote out the first four letters of the word "symmetry" drawing them so that when the edge of the paper is held against a mirror, the other half of the word appears. Spelling out the rest of the word. Completed Tasks Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:00:27 -0700 http://sf0.org/tinyfolk/The-Arcane-Ensconced/ In which I ensconce some arcanity underneath the keyboard tray of one of my bosses' desks at the library. Story in pictures. Completed Tasks Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:16:32 -0700 http://sf0.org/randompath/Ariadnes-Thread/ Who is Ariadne? [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hByLyyZL2A] Points on the thread Our path through the labyrinth Ida Noyes Hall - The University of ChicagoOpen ProduceThe PointThe Art InstituteEarwax CaféicreamThe Spice HouseOld Town AquariumThe top of the Hancock TowerThe Brownlands (Roosevelt Bridge)Ida Noyes Hall On our entry at the outer edge of the maze, preparing our spirits, we pursue an occult education.   Open Produce The coming privations in mind, we acquire reserves and me... Completed Tasks Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:09:21 -0700 http://sf0.org/mynameissoil/Ethereal-Cartography/ Nothingness, void, non existence, emptiness, have all been on my mind lately. My thoughts keep returning to what a perfect void would be like. what absolute nothingness would be like. As i try to picture it or grasp it I keep defining it, making it into something. I guess even nothingness is something and nonexistence exists, ect. Anyway i thought it would be fun to make a map of nothingness. i didn't want to have a black or white piece of paper. So i splattered watered down acrylic paint ... Completed Tasks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:23:17 -0700 http://sf0.org/saturday/Mihi/ Hello hi. Hello. My people are scattered; my house is wide; my family is fluid; I am called Saturday. My culture doesn't have much in the way of identification rituals. Here's one: "Hi, I'm Jim." "My name's Clifford, nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you!" Nice to meet you. I understood "belong to" to mean "places you are responsible to" or "places that, if they called, you would come." Here are places that I belong to, either as a citizen (the museum and doorways and the alley) or as a ... Completed Tasks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:26:08 -0700 http://sf0.org/lusiphurmalache/Trespassing-the-Future/ I work for one of the "happiest places on earth" And one of the areas I used to work is gone... to be replaced by a new theme. The former Neverland Complex (Hooks Pointe, Lost Bar, Crocs Bits and Bites) is gone, never to return. Soon to be replaced by a 1950's theme tiki resort theme. I have one picture from the night after it's final hurrah's. Shutters and doors closed forever. I'll upload more once I get them off my phone. Completed Tasks Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:21:31 -0700