Physicality

Unadulterated but for this sentence, Loki introduces the week of tasks he has planned for you all with these words:

The world has always had a geometry. Not the social and political geometry we create, but a natural geometry all its own. At the dawn of the information age, it is easy to forget our relationship to the physical medium in which we are embedded. It enables us. It enslaves us. It contains a great many pigeons. This week, you're asked to explore the world of things, and your relationship to it. With a simple reversal of perspective, the objects of everyday life may become beautiful or grotesque. Exploit both, and try to see the world as it really is, and as it might become.

The Usual Mess

This week's tasks have been carefully selected for you by susy derkins, who offers the following bit of framing:

From the outside (if there were an outside) regular urban life would look as the most intricate groundwork for tasking, laid down by some crafty collaborator before us. Where, how, when? Enter detailed task-design: certified tasking potential in nicely concrete situations. This week you've been relieved from reflection and interpretation, the tasks chosen are "just-add-drive" recipes. Is now your turn to bring context and skill, madness or sanity to the design, and JUMP. You're already there, go for it.

Inversion

Everyday Life moves onward, seeking neither to put banal routine on a pedestal, nor to simply interrupt the habitual with the occasional bright spot. We do not reinforce an everyday life that none of us invented, but reclaim it as something each of us may define, create, and destroy. This week of tasks, from 10/19 through 10/25, has been carefully plotted by rongo rongo, who exhorts us:

As we delve further into the era of Everyday Life, many aspects of our daily existence present themselves as opportunities for deeper examination. When we look harder at things we see all the time, we can invert our normal routine, transforming it into a wonderland. Go forth, astonish yourself, and share the tale.

Each day of this era will bring both one new task and one additional vote point for you to spend as you see fit. You will now receive one vote point for every 2 (rather than 3) points of score you earn.

The Revolution of Everyday Life

Welcome to Everyday Life. Your scores have been reset. We've made several changes and additions to SFZero.

We will be uploading one task per day for the duration of the era.

We have added "terms," a fantastic tagging system that you can use to define tasks, players and praxis, tell stories, and draw strange connections.

We have changed the voting system. You now have a pool of vote points equal to 1/3 of your total points this era (e.g. 300 points = 100 vote points). When you vote on praxis, you can assign between 1-5 points to your vote. That number of points will be deducted from your vote points and added to the votee's score.

Everyday Life: Coming Sept. 20th!

Everyday Life, a new SFZero Era, begins on September 21st, 12:01 AM Pacific Standard Time. Everyday Life is about normalizing the extraordinary and exploring the mundane.

As usual, all scores will be reset and all tasks replaced when the new era begins.

More details to follow.

Also, SFZero's been featured in the Wall Street Journal's Tech Diary. Check it out. Thanks to all the players who did an awesome Pedestrian Permit Distribution (the first ever!) for it!

Lastly, we'd like to thank everyone who donated this past month. For the first time in SFZero history, we didn't lose money... in fact, we made around $75 which we put directly into our SFZero 401k accounts.

Love,
Sam, Sean and Ian