In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, we experience the funky flaming glory that is DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, a pyro-parody of the popular arcade game in which one jumps around on touch-sensitive pads underfoot in rhythm with music. With DDI, you do this inside a flame-retardant suit. Miss a step, you get torched with a giant flamethrower.
Dance Dance Immolation combines video games, music, and propane. You play DDR. A good performance wins you acclaim from flamethrowers. A missed step gets you a face full of fire! Yes, the fire is real. Put on a fireproof suit and give it a try!
The contraption was created by the clan of happy mutant makers known as Interpretive Arson. We shot this at "How to Destroy the Universe," a yearly Industrial culture event which this year honored Throbbing Gristle's reunion tour. Laughing Squid has a related blog post here.
We hear they're next performing at the "Smukfest" art confab in Denmark.
(Update): Nicole Aptekar of
Interpretive Arson pops in with more on the upcoming .dk gig:
DDI next heads across the pond to burninate the Scandinavians, where
we have been gleefully booked for the Smukfest music festival in
Skanderborg, Denmark, August 5-9. It's a beautiful setting for our
first European run, within a lush green forest. However, trees are
flammable so DDI will run on a custom-constructed raft floating in the
middle of a lake. We've had to skip our normal West Coast circuit to
do it, but it might just be worth it if we get to shoot Kylie Minogue
with fire.
CREW NOTE: About this episode's host, Aaron Muszalski (aka SFSlim): He's a Burning Man builder, visual effects artist and educator, and a wandering polyglamorous anarcho-Dada Buddhist biker punk. He's on Twitter. In this episode, you'll also see our delightful recurring guest host Charis Tobias, who is all of 18 years old if memory serves. And thanks to our SF-based shooter-producer Eddie Codel who did a fine job capturing the madness on this piece, yet again.
(Photo below by Kristen Ankiewicz, courtesty Interpretive Arson)
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