Ahhhh, huge tornado! No wait....

It's Giant Twister.

I'll let the photos do the talking. But Giant Twister is pretty awesome, especially when people finally get over their own lame self-consciousness--when we first arrived there were literally 50 people standing around the mat watching the three people playing--and join the fun.


Even after more people joined and the mat got close to full, people still often insisted on staying in their own little space. At one point I attempted to get everyone to try to move to the opposite side simultaneously (i.e. people on the left go right, people on the right go left), but the group as a whole wouldn't take. Then, my three friends and I decided we'd each start in a different corner and then work our way to the center, at which point it was an all out battle to be the last man standing. Of course, I went half way to the center and then fell over on some other random person instead. Nonetheless, very awesome.

Kids never hold back their excitement. Someday adults won't either. (Note: one of those is not true).

UPDATE: It dawned on me that I never actually explained where this took place. This was last Friday night at the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) on the waterfront in South Boston. Dan Deacon also performed, and the event was given a scathing review by Bostonist here. I agree with the review, although I also did have a ton of fun, too.