“Relax,” says the doctor, “You’re just two tents.”

I live in a house called Black Diamond. It’s four boys and three girls in a five bedroom house. The three girls all have Pisces birthdays, so we celebrate them together with the legendary Pisces Party.

This year’s theme was InTentCity, so housemates and friends constructed a hodgepodge of of wild, elaborate tents throughout the property with the goal of enticing all five senses. A gold mylar pyramid, a geodesic dome, a helium-powered bamboo cube, a bird’s nest only reachable by rope ladder, and a strobe-flashing mystical lake were just a few of the titillating installations we built for the party.

I constructed a snake-skin-coated lounge where I held one-on-one cult recruitment sessions. For each convert, I devised an entirely new sect, each with a unique creation story and set of guidelines for life. Participants were told to close their eyes and touch a variety of textural objects hidden inside a snake-skin pouch, and their responses to these unseen objects helped form the cult I would then ask them to join.

Most of the serious tenting went on early in the evening, along with performances from the amazing Mirror Mirror (all the way from Brooklyn), the kinetic Lucky Dragons, a spandex-sliding choreographed dance duo, and Michael Lucid of Pretty Things, birthing a loaf of bread. The real dance-party party stated at “late party time,” and went on until 4:00am, when the cops made us kick everyone out. Check out 22 pictures from the party after the jump!

Stuart’s hyperreal balloon cube, for which he also created an original song that played on loop inside the tent.

Amazingly, the bird’s nest made it through the night with zero fatalities!

My tent was aesthetically inspired by Nicolas Cage.

Dan from Kentucky flew out for the party and helped make my tent dreams come true.

Donna’s Olde English-themed tent, complete with a fog machine and a motorized arm clutching a sword, protruding from an artificial lake.

Audra had an unfair advantage with the geometry of her mylar pyramid, since she’s a rocket scientist at NASA and all.

Liz built a Geodesic Dome. That shit was crazy! It was pitch black inside except for an iridescent night-sky constellation.

Sam and Adrian flew out from Boston a week before the party to make this amazing tent, with upside-down concrete-sculpted netting.

Mirror Mirror blew my mind!

This picture (and the following 3) are from my roomie Liz, who’s got dozens more rad shots on her Flickr Page.

Me doing my culty performance-y thing.

Lucky Dragons taught us all the beauty of touch. This was during a “song” created by passing noise signals through our extremities.

Michael breast-feeding his bread-loaf baby, and Patrick of Cobain in a Coma chilling out in Sarah’s bird nest.

A sword in the lake and the amazing dance performance! These last four pictures are from Shabrina’s awesome Pisces Party Flickr set.