Hello and welcome to Week 6 of GRcade Tasks of the Week.If you are new to 'Tasks of the Week', this is the kind of thing you can either dip in and out of at your leisure, or contest seriously to take the ultimate title of
TASK MASTER.
The low-down: Each week, I set a series of tasks. These tasks are not supposed to be chores. They are supposed to be positive, motivational experiences. Things that spice life up a little. Some are incredibly simple, others require more of a challenge. All, I hope, make a normal day a little less normal and make life a bit interesting.
I will be running this for 8 weeks, at the end of which I will award the winner (the person who scores the most points) an awesome prize, along with the sought after title of
TASK MASTER. But the real prize is the satisfaction of achieving these tasks and the experiences you have in the process of doing so.
The 6 tasks comprise of:- 2 Easy Tasks (1 point each)
- 2 Medium Tasks (3 points each)
- 2 Hard Tasks (5 points each)
2 bonus points for completing all 6 tasks.Various extra bonus points for certain tasks.The Week 5 TableTerrible Lizard makes his mark with 100% in his first week. Meanwhile, Ironhide breaks into the green and Falsey breaks into the blue.
WEEK 6 TASKS:Easy (1 point each)SmilerI'm not going to give a big intro to this as the task is actually very simple. For this task, all you have to do is smile at 5 people. You can accompany a smile with a word or two or just offer a polite smile to someone you walk past. No head-down shuffling will be permissible for this task. Look people in the eye and offer a friendly smile. It might be worth making a note of how people respond. Do they smile back? Or start a conversation? Simple.
World in his GraspHave you ever used Google Earth?
http://earth.google.co.uk/ It’s a fascinating piece of software that can be a useful resource. You are able to use satellite images to zoom down onto places streets across the world. For this task I simply want you to download and install the software (it’s perfectly safe), and use it to locate and examine 5 famous landmarks in 5 separate countries or regions. Seeing them from this vantage point almost makes one feel like a God. Suggestions: The Great Wall of China. The Pyramids at Giza. The Grand Canyon. You get the drift.
Medium (3 points each)CharitableFor this task I wish for you to do something charitable. I will accept one of the following:
1) Donate to charity (money or one of your possessions to a charity shop
2) Sponsor something/one (e.g. a Tiger)
3) Do something that raises money for a registered charity
The Artful Dodger Pretty much the antithesis of the Charitable task. I bet you're a pretty straight edge guy/gal. You're on the level. Trustworthy. But for this task, you need to explore the darker side. To pass, you have to successfully scam someone. How you do this is entirely up to you. Who you scam is up to you. It can be a big scam, or a tiny scam. Any type. But at the end of the scam you must have gained something and that the other person must have lost.
Hard (5 points each)Flip-OutYou remember those flip books with art in them? You may have done them at school. Flip book Art is a lost skill. Time for you to rediscover it.
It is basically the process of drawing individual pictures on the pages of a small notebook, then when you flip through them it creates an animation. A rather competent example:
I am not asking you to do anything like as complicated as that. Your animation could be stickmen. Anything. It has to be at least 15-20 pages long though.
No visual evidence required.
Bonus Points: 3 bonus points available if you video the flipping of your flip book.
RorschachDo your own 'Rorschach' Test.
"The Rorschach test (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoɐʃax]; also known as the Rorschach inkblot test or simply the Inkblot test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex scientifically derived algorithms, or both."I'd like you to get some ink (or some other liquidy substance - I am being flexible in what is allowed) and then blot it onto a piece of paper or card. Then, simply say what you see from the shape you have created. Will it be guts? Guns? Guts and guns? Or perhaps flowers.
Bonus points: 1 bonus point for actually using ink and card.
All Tasks must be finished by 9pm on Monday the 19th of October.