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It's a straight-up slap-fest between you (some archetypal anime female), and some Japanamation female stereotype. The gameplay takes a second to get used to, but after the first few slaps, you get the hang of it. It feels great on the tablet with a stylus too!

Men tread upon the paths of life,
in forests of poverty, hate, and strife.
Among those men was one of few,
whose smile brought joy to me and you.
He offered friendship to all who'd take it,
were you in a bind he'd help you break it.
Now that he's gone he's left a hole,
where no other d-twenty could ever roll.

They were really great. The concert took place in the middle of the day in one of the campus gymnasiums, and a surprising number of people showed up.

OK Go at Case Springfest | Get Over It

What surprised me the most was the "rowdy" nature of the crowd. First of all, you have to realize that when I put something in quotes, I mean it. "Rowdy" for Case means that people were clapping and jumping and singing along; all things I have never really seen at any campus concerts. That being said, the establishment (Case) did everything in its power to quash whatever fun was being had. Some people actually had the nerve to hoist each other up and crowd surf on the thin (for crowd surfing, not for Case) mass of hands and shoulders. These brave souls were immediately apprehended by security guards and other such agents of lameness.

OK GO did domething I've never seen before at a concert of any type, they took the show literally into the crowd. In the middle of the show they jumped off stage and made their way over to a small platform that had been waiting for them in the midst of the pocket-protected throng to perform several songs. I was lucky enough to be this close to them:

OK GO at Case Springfest | Crowded

Damian Kulash, the band's lead singer was in high spirits despite the lack of crowd energy. I think he actually appreciated that the bunch of nerds at his show were at least swaying and singing. He even went so far as to discuss the band's nerdiness, including how keyboardist Andy Ross was a "card carrying nerd", and encouraged all of us to raise our gadgets like the lighters of old in rock concerts of yore. Someone raised their laptop.

Typical.

The next day was filled with experiments, Beevo and I shot an entire short film that I did not end up submitting before I thought up "the Life of a Snowball", but after that it was a breeze.

The film is broken up into three vignettes, to be watched in order, back to back. I was trying to capture shots that could not easily be captured with a conventional camera, which is what lead me to create the interesting shots that are present in the video.

"the Life of"

a Drain

a Sneaker

a Snowball

Yeah, that did it. I took home the grand prize, a giant $1,000 check.