geekender

on friday, the geeks hosted a bit of a party at cia. the geek weekend, or as @rashasman called it, the geekender. i'm not sure where the geek party comes in on this geekslist of types of house party. but it was a good party. 

it was much more fun than an artist talk (even if i do love talking) and had quite a few more people, too. the ololo kids set up some projectors and a kinect cam, we had remote/itunes dj running for party tunes, and and a table of circuit boards, tin snips and a hot glue gun for some halla geeky badgemaking goodness. i made a nice hair clip and a cute firewire badge.

the oligatory geek/nerd/dork venn diagram was up. with an accidental intentional missing segment (usually dweeb). it was pretty rad to see everyone debating what the missing segment was and taking it upon themselves to edit and expand the meaning. including some nice derogatory terms there..

when WAAPA had the building, word on the street is that there used to be some killer parties in the building, but CIA hasn't really had many here. it was a nice opportunity to get some of the residents all together, who haven't had too much of a chance to hang out. it was also for peeps who maybe knew a little bit about the studios, to come and meet some of the crew. we made the place look and feel quite different, which i think is always the best excuse for a party.

designing a super-geeky costume is the other great excuse for a party. i think we could have had waaay geekier efforts, but steve looked pretty glee with a nice blue button-up vest with red/blue/yellow stripe detail. i went meta-mad and printed some pseudo code for constructing a garment on the garment: input and output, yo.

fortunately or unfortunately, there was no ridiculous behaviour - no-one got caught shagging in the toilets or making a complete fool of themselves, but it was still kicking on at 2:30 am, which is pretty tidy i think.

thanks to everyone who came (if you read this blog) and we're planning one in about 6 months' time (at the end of the project/christmas/etc), so join the cia mailing list for updates in the mean time.