The List

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• Found Item Sculpture: show us what you can do with 12 inches (minimum height)!  No maximum height, whatever you find. No purchase (except fastening materials:  glue sticks, tape, nails, etc–they’re allowed).

• Design Your Mascot: Everyone feels good when they’re cheered for.  Design your own personal mascot & dress up as it!
  
• Human Carnival Game:  think Whack-A-Mole, the Claw, Skee-Ball…except with people.  Recreate the carnival experience! Lights, sound, someone trying to take your money on games of ‘skill’! This one should be a video, and a demo of the game in play.
  
• Review that Restaurant:  Enjoy one of our many immigrant-owned restaurants; and write a Google or Yelp review.  Share the link with us; and extra points for a dramatic recitation in a video.
  
• Express Yourself:  with joy and appreciation for public servants.  Whether it’s a giant card to transit drivers, or a gift of gratitude to a teacher, share the love. Pic of delivery or dropoff and receipt, or a vid.
  
• Minnesota is home to 10,000 lakes, and hundreds of streams, rivers, fountains, kiddy pools, splash pads.  Compose & perform a water ballet!  30 seconds, video.
  
• Freaky Furrrriday: You’ve switched bodies with your pet.  Show us what that looks like.  Picture or video acceptable.
  
• Rebel Loon:  created by Bernardo Anderson as a symbol of resistance and community, we want to see your own artistic interpretation!  Macaroni art, painting, Lego, however you show solidarity with your neighbors.
  
• Everyone is annoyed by someone or something.  People who don’t know how to zipper merge, people who clip their nails on public transit, you get the point.  Compose & perform a song about why they are wrong & you are right.  1-3 minute video.
  
• You know the label:  the tiny print, 18 uses, dilute it first!  Show us all 18 uses of Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap.  You pick the scent.  No nudity, please.  Be creative!  (video: 1-3 minutes, or a photo montage!).
  
• Sing us the song….that was #1 on the day of your birth in your country of birth.  Feel free to pick the chart. (All or most of the song, 1-3 minutes, video)
  
• Recreate your parent’s (or a sibling’s or friend’s) wedding photo.  But we want to see your re-use skills: raid that recycling bin, or trash, or junk drawer!  Make sure to capture the joy and fun of the photo too!
  
• Recreate your favorite beer label…using bar snacks.  Even better if you do it in your favorite bar and tag them in the picture.  Take a pic (and then feel free to enjoy the snacks!)
  
• Add it up, Add it Up!  If every MetroTransit route number is a point (the 2 is 2 points, for example), how many points can you gather in a week?  Take a selfie by or on each bus you ride or a pic of you by it,, but make sure we can see the bus number in the pic.  (Letter routes are worth the numerical of the letter.  A is 1 point, D is 4 points, etc).

Ground Rules & Guidelines:

1. Be creative!  
2. Do items by yourself, with a team, with friends, with whoever you can wrangle into this!
3. Don’t be buying all the supplies; you probably have stuff laying around.  Ask around; other players, friends, fam, strangers, thrift, etc.
4. (Ax-Man is a great resource, too).  
5. DSST isn’t about winning; it’s about fun!
6. Don’t break the law, please.
7. Finally:

Be good.  Don’t be a dick.  If you’re making a video, ask people if they consent to be in it.  And if you want to share it on the socials, ask them if they’re cool with that.  If they aren’t, then don’t.

And then:

What to do when you’ve finished or accomplished an item:  share in the Signal group, or share on socials, and then next Sunday, we’ll have a gathering to celebrate ourselves!  You might want to create a shared folder of your items; easier to share.

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