Applied Dadaism: Fun and Games, Friday Morning

[superartie]

Applied Dadaism: Fun and Games was held around the main campfire on Friday morning.

Artie stood poised on a trampoline, completely motionless until it was time to get the workshop started. "Greetings, campers! I hope you are having a very pipe time at camp so far! Welcome to Applied Dadaism! I am Artie! The strongest man . . . in the world and I will be your instructor for these next weeks."

He bounced down from his perch on the trampoline and struck a heroic pose in front of the campers. "You may ask ‘Artie? What is Dada?' And an excellent question that would be! Dada is nonsense! Richard Huelsenbeck once said that ‘everywhere, throughout the world, where forces are at work to turn back the wheel of history, Dada will be hated. Therefore it is not difficult to predict a great future for Dada.' Alas, he may have been wrong. For the forces of emo are strong throughout the world, now more than ever, and now, more than ever, is Dada important!"

He struck a different pose. "In this workshop, we will learn to apply Dada to our everyday lives through games and ridiculousness, to combat these forces of emo. We will make people ask questions. We will make people ask questions about why they are asking questions! We will, most importantly, have fun!"

He began walking back and forth. "At the end of the workshop, you will be asked to present a game of your creation to the group. This game will be based on the ideas and rulelessness you will learn throughout the workshop. But start thinking about it now, so that you will have a great game idea by the end of the session!"

He bounced back up on the trampoline. "But first! Introduce yourselves! Say your name and make a funny pose, a funny noise, a funny face! Then we will move on to our first game!"

Once the introductions are through with, Artie stands, arms in muscle man position, at the front of the group again. "Excellent! Now, we will play ‘rock, paper, scissors!' But be warned, you may not play only rock, paper, or scissors! You may play anything you can think of. For example!" He did jazz hands. "Nuclear fission! Pair up! (and make one group of three!) Play the game! Explain how your thing, such as nuclear fission, beats your partner's thing, such as molten lava! Have fun! I, Artie, the strongest man . . . in the world! will be here to answer any questions!"

[ooc: Wait for the OCD, vikings! Go forth and be weird!]

Comments

Sign in [week 1]

[superartie]

Let me know that you are here! One after the other, so's it all collapses pretty-like.

Re: Sign in [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky signed in.

Introductions [week 1]

[superartie]

Be goofy! Say your name and do something weird! For Dada's sake!

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I'm Charlie, but I'll answer to Charlie, Kawalsky, Major K!, just K or Green-Hair-Guy. I think the hair is weird enough." It was green thanks to the Meerkats. He did a weird pose anyway.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"My name is James Arthur Madrox," Jamie said, "Which means my monogram would be 'JAM'. Everyone just calls me Jamie."

"And for my goofy act today, I shall eat this rubber tire to the classic melody of 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'."

Jamie also did a weird pose.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I'm Tyler Durden," Tyler said.

He held up his fingers and wiggled them. "Buttery," he said, in a monotone.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I'm Marie," she introduced herself.

Then she did an awkward pose that may have resembled something from Madonna's 'Vogue' video. She hoped that was weird enough.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

"My name is Kaywinnit Lee Frye, but everyone calls me Kaylee," she said with a grin. She figured her full name was weird enough. Still, she decided to make a silly face just because she could.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[stykera]

"I'm Stark," said Stark. Then he posed. Weirdly.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"My name is Walter cum Dornez," and the name had better be good enough, but for good measure, he made a weirder than the icon face.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[sensethevisions]

"I'm Phoebe." She then did a cartwheel.

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I'm Timothy Desmond." tim said. He was slightly damp due to the fact that he had in fact, fallen asleep at the main campfire the night before and woken up covered in dew. Plus he had a weird sort of bed hair since his pillow had been a log.
He conveniently had his mini tape player cued up and he manipulated the speed so a high, chipmunk sounding voice sang out;

"WoeeverwoetothehouseofDesmond!"

Re: Introductions [week 1]

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River just looked at Artie her head tilted. Weird? She found a pen in her pocket and walked up to Artie and tried to write his name on his forehead.

Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[superartie]

Don't do Nuclear Fission or Molten Lava, please. Be creative. I'm looking at you, Tyler. . . .

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky looked around for a partner.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie walked over to Jamie and looked at his hair.

"Did you have advance notice on the do something weird thing?"

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

Kaylee waited for a partner.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter started playing variations with himself not dirty while he waited for someone to play with.

It seemed fairly obvious only to him that hellpuppy beat blue kitty, but did vampire bat beat hellpuppy? Or did hellpuppy cute the bat into submission?

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim looked around. Looked like the others had already paired up. "Room for one more?" he asked in general.

Questions for Artie! [week 1]

[superartie]

Be prepared to receive a nonsensical answer! And to slowplay a bit, since I'm at work!

Re: Questions for Artie! [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Clog Man!" Kawalsky greeted.

Re: Questions for Artie! [week 1]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Which are better, sprinkles on ice cream, or those little candy dots?"

Re: Questions for Artie! [week 1]

[stykera]

"My side or your side?" Stark asked. Because he had to.

OOC [week 1]

[superartie]

I am soooooooo very glad I decided to type this up before coming to work. This is an italics free zone!

Re: OOC [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

YAY ARTIE.