Cartographer zer0gee

How SF0 helped change my life (re: Go Get Em Tiger) +2

So, it started here, with a surpraxis completion - somewhere during this exploration, I picked up a lovely chunk of rusty metal with a big round hole near the top, strung it up, and wore it as a necklace. I'd been wearing rusty metal junk as necklaces for years, but this was the first time I remember gathering one up specifically to wear as a souvenir, a memento of a wonderful day spent doing something wonderful with a wonderful person.

It progressed here, which is the real catalyst for the whole thing. From this time on, tasking or not - climbing bridges, exploring buildings, walking the streets - I was scavenging constantly with the aim of making the lost bits of City into wearable adornments, so we should be reminded that nothing we can put together with our hands, however grand, will ever be permanent. Looking back through my completed tasks done after this, I remember coming back with pocketsful of orphaned hardware from almost every one of them.

And now, for a year and a half I've been the owner of a small business, Urbex Archaeology, in which I find the discarded, forgotten, unwanted pieces of the things we once so carefully built, and endeavor to make them useful and beautiful again. Everywhere I travel, small pieces of those places come home with me, are reconstructed, and sent back out into the world to live another life.

I can't say for sure this wouldn't have happened without SF0, but I can definitely say it took the course it did because of SF0. So many of my fellow players were enthusiastic and supportive of my early work, and they were undoubtedly the people that made me realize there were others out there who would appreciate my vision and want to share in it. I'm far from making a living with my business - though I think maybe I could do so, given time - but it does support itself, which is all I can ask for. Thank you, SF0 friends and family - I love this place, and I love you.

Aw, thanks guys! (re: Player Photograph)

Babe = I have started a jewelry business - you can see my work at http://www.urbexarchaeology.com/ or go directly to my Etsy shop at http://www.urbarchaeology.etsy.com/. I've been doing that for about a year and a half now.

Bryce = That is so sweet, thank you very much! I do have one pretty large completed praxis that I still do mean to post, and that is actually the one that explains why I left in the first place. I might lurk a bit, but I'm not sure about actually returning to tasking.

(no subject) (re: Journey to the End of the Night: Chicago/DC 2009)

Any Journey is lucky to have you as a chaser. You play competitively but are also respectfully fair to the spirit of the game. I commend you, sir. :)

(no subject) (re: zer0gee visits SF0)

Since I leave in eight hours, here's my cell number for anyone who wants to meet up. I would prefer you text rather than call. Thanks!

847*754*9500

Working on my personal tally... (re: zer0gee visits SF0)

There were a whole lot of us at the first CG0 Journey. Does that count, too? Strictly speaking, it's not a direct collab, since praxii were posted individually, but we all were working on the same task.

Without Journey, I'm counting 29 direct collaborators in my SF0 history. It helps to be on the biggest City Zer0 team.