VOYAGER!
Thanks to everyone who came to Mission Arcade on March 11! Unfortunately, I didn't get any footage of the awesome VR reactions in the front room, nor did we get footage of the MarioKart battles in the Ersatz room, but here is our "continuousdancekaraoke" concept in 2 minutes!
(We'll probably figure out a catchier name than "continuousdancekaraoke" at some point.)
And here is the Bay Area Flash Mob with the full performance of the "Evolution of Hip-Hop" routine!
If anyone took pictures of the 50lb pig or the Golden Record cake made by Mark Del Lima, please let us know!
Mission Arcade footage from the Asian Art Museum!
Mission Arcade has happened at some unexpected places, but the San Francisco Asian Art Museum was the last place we expected to throw our scrappy little nerd party. Check out the video below!
This blog post is about four months late, but that's because two thirds of Digital Crafts Night and ALL of Ersatz Film went to New York to work with IDEO.org right after the museum event happened. And we hit the ground running. (ed: And the hard drive with all the Mission Arcade footage shot by Jericho Saria and Hadrian Santos was in California) For the sake of not destroying any originally expressed sentiments, it's probably best to post the Facebook statuses from the actual night:
L.A. Renigen came up for the 10 year Anniversary of Colma: The Musical, so I figured it was the right time to have a Fruit Fly reunion with Mike Curtis. Here's a capture of our a capella ending (that we probably should have done in the actual film...oh well...:-)
And to close off the second set, Digital Crafts Night performed as part of their CD release. Here's a FULL video of "Blowhards", the new song from DCN.
And finally, an album of pictures taken from the night:
Thank you Marc Mayer and Masashi Niwano for giving me a Takeover at the museum. We had a blast. Looking forward to seeing the other Takeovers very soon!
Sooo...
WHERE AND WHEN'S THE NEXT MISSION ARCADE? :)
Halloween!
Thanks to everyone for coming out and dancing/gaming/sangin' - with only a few days notice, we can still put on a hoppin' party!
Timewarp at the midnight chimes!
"Let's do the Timewarp again!"
Posted by Mission Arcade on Monday, November 2, 2015
LOVE WINS: Impromptu Mission Arcade sing-along in the Castro
Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly. The location had to be determined on the fly, and you all made it. Love wins! DOMA IS FUCKING GONE!
LOVE WINS!
Posted by Mission Arcade on Monday, November 2, 2015
"Letter from an Occupant", covered by H.P. Mendoza at DORK
H.P. covers The New Pornographers with electric ukulele and chiptune dance synths
Cover of The New Pornographers' "Letter from an Occupant"
Posted by Mission Arcade on Monday, November 2, 2015
Digital Crafts Night, live at Mission Arcade
The crowd participation was unexpectedly moving. So much love in the audience and on stage. Excuse the audio, it was taken from various phones throughout the night. It was amazing to hear the audience singing along with the song. And seeing as how so many of our friends and family were there, there was audience harmony, too! From where we stood, seeing the people hanging out the windows and off the balconies to watch us as the fog coasted past the stars was super magical. Thanks to everyone who showed up. :)
Our first Mission Arcade! H.P. turns 30!
Folks from the Center for Asian American Media came to game and booze. Stephane Gauger (Owl and the Sparrow) created a pyramid of lumpia. Tanuj Chopra (Punching at the Sun) showed up with a Darth Maul figurine. Rich Wong (Colma: The Musical) and J.P. Chan (A Picture of You) discussed filmmaking and not quitting your day job. And Nguyen Tran narrowly escaped being beat down at Dance Dance Revolution by HP!