audience participation

This interview was contributed by new writer Michelle Nail. Dan Deacon is a weirdo.

Not the crazy “I might knife you on the street corner” type weirdo but a weirdo that you can love.

Based in Baltimore, Maryland amongst his fellow founders of the art collective Wham City, he’s been making strange a new art form since 2003.

This weekend marks the debut of Staple! Independent Media Expo's very first two-day run, and the underground comic fair is set to celebrate in style with a badass bunch of afterparties, audience participation-fueled art parties and open mics.

annainaustin/flickrThere are a lot of kinds of parties in the world: birthday parties, toddler bouncy-house parties, work parties.

For South by Southwest Interactive, one of the party-est parties was the Saturday night event, Happy Cog'aoke 2.

It was the kind of event where you felt like anything could happen!