January 24, 2011

• Play PlayLookIt

  My friend Jeff created a website called PlayLookIt.com, which is a daily-photo scavenger hunt. Each day a one-word mission is given, and the players are tasked with capturing that mission in a single photograph from their mobile phones. The missions can vary, as can players interpretations of the word. For example, a few missions from last week included promise, six, and play. And on occasion the mission is a time, which means you capture a picture of what you’re doing at that moment. At this point there are quite a few players (you should go sign up) and the level of creativity and craftsmanship is getting very refined.

  On Saturday the assigned mission was “3:01pm.” At that time I happened to be deciding which kind of soft serve ice cream to get (vanilla, chocolate, charcoal). Since it wasn’t an overly photogenic opportunity, I decided to spruce my submission up with some creative PlayLookIt fanfiction. Though I didn’t win, I felt I had made an admirable effort.

  

  “We all screamed for ice cream. Then the proprietor became upset with us for yelling and disturbing the other customers. But none of us cared; we were drunk on root beer and high on sugar. Caramel covered the floor. Sprinkles had been loosed everywhere. And in this cash-only establishment between us we had no way to pay — two credit cards, $15 Canadian dollars, half a pack of Double Mint gum, four rounds of .22 ammo, and no gun.”

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