Tasks
Sundial I
Added January 11th 2008 @ 5:10 pmMake a sundial. Use it!
completions by: teucer Levitating Potato rongo rongo Road Scholar Augustus deCorbeau
Forced-éjà Vu
Added by Dr. Subtle July 22nd 2008 @ 7:55 pmMake a pedestrian or prosaic gesture which produces a physical artifact. Spill some milk. Crumple a newspaper. Open a book to a random page.
Produce an artifact identical to the first one, but deliberately. Pour (or eyedropper) milk to get a puddle of the exact shape and size as the first one. Crease a second newspaper with the exact creases of the first. Close the book and keep opening it and closing it until you find that same page.
Document, please!
completions by: Robert Warren cody Great President Dad Amoeba Man Elaine Sanderson
The Speed Of Time
Added September 28th 2008 @ 1:06 pmAccelerate or decelerate an aging process.
completions by: Teeth Beetles rongo rongo Sam Archer Sardonicus Tweed Endive Breakfast
Keep Marching On
Added by Morse Kode December 31st 2008 @ 5:01 pmDestroy a piece of your past.
completions by: Ben Yamiin miss understanding anna one Rin Brooker Llama Chameleon
Discovering What Doesn't Change
Added by Sardonicus Tweed April 26th 2009 @ 7:09 pmFind something untouched by the ravages of time; something the same as it was in the past.
completions by: artmouse Markov Walker rongo rongo Sombrero Guy Samantha
Trespassing The Future
Added February 9th 2008 @ 3:01 pmGo to a place you will not be able to go to in 10 years; for instance, a place under development that will never be the same again.
completions by: Marshall Electric Lincøln Ink Tea Tøm Adam
The Unexpected
Added by done June 21st 2008 @ 1:10 amSurprise yourself.
completions by: Cookie Pixie rongo rongo Sardonicus Tweed miss understanding
Dimensional Leakage
Added by Poisøn Lake February 5th 2009 @ 11:24 pmObtain a plaque from the past, future, or an alternate dimension that commemorates the historical significance of a public place or object (statue, park bench etc.). Install and observe.
completions by: Poisøn Lake Sombrero Guy Lincøln Tøm zer0gee
Seasonal Denial
Added by Amoeba Man August 11th 2012 @ 7:00 pmRefuse to allow your celebrations and habits be bound by arbitrary turns of the celestial screw. Publicly do something out of season. Document the reactions of the timebound.
completions by: Sam Archer
Temporal Awareness Day
Added by Darkaardvark May 12th 2008 @ 8:01 pmTime nonplayers engaged in an activity that is not usually timed. Afterward, let them know their time. You may want to offer suggestions on how they can improve that time in the future.
completions by: Shane Miro Ty Ødin N Mutans Ted Pro
Create The Present
Added by Peter Garnett September 23rd 2008 @ 10:02 pmBuild a clock. Use it.
completions by: Sombrero Guy Rin Brooker Goddess of Doom and Thievery
Yabadabadoo
Added by Loki October 28th 2008 @ 8:58 pmMake and use a stone tool. Neither the tool nor its method of construction need be traditional.
completions by: Scooter Vagabond Mr Everyday Cookie The Beekeeper Mr. Hollywood
CTRL + Z
Added by Icarus September 11th 2008 @ 3:44 amThe law of entropy: a system tends to degenerate over time.
It is easy to shatter glass, but difficult to put it back together.
It is easy to create toast, but almost impossible to turn it back into bread.
It is easy to make mistakes. Destroy relationships. Regret choices.
But we know that time is flexible. Now undo.
completions by: Charlie Fish Burn Unit gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing Cthulhu Kitty Cookie
Public Clocks
Added January 29th 2006 @ 9:46 pmHelp the marginalized and disenfranchised recognize/participate in the common origin and shared destiny of San Francisco by re-integrating them into the temporality of San Francisco's narration. (Install Public Clocks To Aid The Cause Of Empty Homogenous Time.)
OR
Help destroy the constant principles of San Francisco's culture that attempt to hark back to a "true" San Franciscan past by encouraging the kind of subaltern ephemeral temporalities that inhabit the space between the "I have heard" and "you will hear". (Destroy Public Clocks To Aid The Cause of Performative Time)
completions by: Sam Archer Rubin Starset freya gefn avidd opolis Heather Mooflyfoof
Museum Of Artifacts From The Temporal Desert Of Disinterest
Added by Burn Unit November 9th 2008 @ 1:23 amA newspaper from this morning is useful. A newspaper from 100 years
ago is interesting. A newspaper from ten years ago is garbage.
Your task, fearless Chrononaut, is to explore this phenomenon by curating an exhibition of material drawn from the nameless region that lies between utility and artifact. Include a detailed analysis that contextualizes each piece in relation to the other works and the culture and period in which they are embedded.
One piece of advice: be wary of nostalgia and eschew kitsch, for they will only lead you astray.
completions by: Markov Walker Cookie
The Way I Remember It...
Added by artmouse December 3rd 2008 @ 2:17 pmRecreate one of your early childhood memories from the point of view of another person from that memory. There is, of course, a difference between talking about something you remember and recreating a memory. That said, how you recreate yours is up to you.
completions by: rongo rongo Selahsaurus
While True:
Added by Markov Walker December 27th 2009 @ 6:21 amChoose a task you can repeat indefinitely. Choose a public location and perform your chosen task continuously until something forces you to stop.
completions by: Pixie Kattapa shady grey
Paleodiet
Added by Loki February 27th 2011 @ 10:04 pmThe diet of the hunter-gatherer differs from that of the typical SF0 player not only in composition, but also in the degree to which it is predictable. Explore the subjective effects of a scarce and unreliable food supply on the modern, western human by modifying your own food selection mechanism to include elements with random or uncertain outcomes; to wit, play a game to decide what and how much you eat.
completions by: Pixie PDØ Hitman
Timeless
Added by Kattapa June 6th 2011 @ 1:11 pmSpend one day without knowing the time. (Estimating the time from looking at the sun is allowed.)
completions by: Markov Walker
The Future Of Days That Have Passed
Added by Blue October 23rd 2007 @ 8:10 pmThe future changes radically from one year to the next.
Every generations future is different.
What people thought the year 2000 would look like in 1950
is gravely different from what people thought it would look like in 1980.
Document how your life would look different if you lived in the future of the past.
Stayin' Alive
Added by r0ck c4ndy June 14th 2008 @ 8:19 pmThese are obviously the end days. Learn a new skill that will help you survive after the apocalypse.
completions by: relet 裁判長 rongo rongo cody Sam Mitchell Loøke Jr.
Calend'art
Added January 11th 2008 @ 5:25 pmMake a radically different calendar as a gift for another person. The calendar must be coherent and useful but may not track days or months in any standard way.
completions by: Burn Unit Tøm Tricia Tanaka