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

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]

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler waved. "I figure Stickbugs should stick together."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I can dig that. The orange is pretty cool, by the way."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Really? Haven't seen a mirror yet," Tyler said. "Your green is sort of nuclear."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I'm starting to like it. Sorta. Anyway. Rock paper scissors without the rock paper scissors?"

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]

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"No. This is the meerkats revenge for us being nice and singing to them," Jamie grumbled.

Of course there were ducks also involved, but that wasn't important at the moment.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie noticed that Tyler had orange hair and a boy she hadn't met had green hair.

"How did they manage to dye everyone's hair without you guys realizing it?"

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"I'm still trying to figure that one out," Jamie said. "How was your hair-dye free evening?"

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"It was fine. I talked to Tim at the main campfire," Marie said. "Were you guys drinking last night or something?"

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

Kaylee waited for a partner.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[stykera]

Stark walked over to Kaylee.

"Do you need a partner?"

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

"I sure do," Kaylee said, grinning. "Don't think we've met. I'm Kaylee."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[stykera]

"Hello, Kaylee. I'm Stark. Are you in Astronomy? I saw you somewhere. Maybe it was there."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

"I am in astronomy," Kaylee confirmed. "I remembeing seeing you there, too. Nice to meet you."

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]

[sensethevisions]

"Wanna be partners, Walter?"


Hellpuppy totally cutes the bat into submissions.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Certainly, Phoebe. I like your choice to buck the trend and keep your hair a natural color."

He held out his hand. "Ready? One. Two..."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe grinned. "Thank you, Walter. I'm glad you kept your hair colour, too."

She extended her hand. "...three."

She was holding her fisted hand vertical. "Cyclone."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was also holding out a fisted hand. "Beer."

Hm.

"I suppose there's a good chance that large force of nature beats beer, but beer makes you not care as much."

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.

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[superartie]

[psst! actually two others in the class, River and MacB. You can form a group of three with them.]

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, thanks.
Tim turned to River and MacB. "Hi."

Re: Rock, Paper, Scissors [week 1]

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River looked at him. "I don't know this game."