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As the Girl Talk/Dan Deacon/White Williams tour winds down, it seems things keep heating up. While in Atlanta this past weekend, a surprise guest turned up during Girl Talk's set at the MJQ Concourse. His name is Big Boi, and he's part of a rap/hip-hop duo known as Outkast. Perhaps you've heard of them?

Sensing a golden opportunity, Joe "White" Williams and the tour's resident visual artiste Andrew Strasser invited the man born Antwan Patton to try his hand at running the visuals for a few moments. Big Boi happily obliged. Williams also posed for the charming photo you see above. White Williams, indeed.

Catch more of the Williams crew's photos and captions below. For part one of the tour diary, click here. For part two, here. And stay tuned for more shenanigans.

Day 9: Charlottesville, VA, September 20, 2007

Hayes has been extremely quiet on the tour-- we wonder if everything is ok.


This guy went nuts for the camera as Joe from White Williams snapped away at an audience unaware of their participation in the visuals for Girl Talk.


Sometimes Joe likes to lay in bed and browse the internet-- other times you see him nervously minimizing windows as you approach him.

Day 10: Asheville, NC, September 21, 2007

Another orb appears during the show-- stage right.


On the road objects begin to morph-- for example, this banana peel that began to reveal itself as a dead parrot. In coming to terms with our road psyche, Joe flicks it off as we bury it in the wilderness. "We gave the dead parrot the bird."


A limber band always performs the hits.

Day 11: Atlanta, GA, September 22, 2007

Gregg's girlfriend Kendall barfed into a bag so we disposed of it in our favorite ditch.


A lot of the inflatables on tour were destroyed. People acted like they were starving for food when they were ripping them apart. Andrew insisted that Minister Gregg (depicted here) bought this Lion Head to replace the inflatables.


Hayes found the head and kept it with him.


Andrew and Joe forced Big Boi to perform Gregg's visuals for a few minutes.

Day 12: Hattiesburg, MS, September 23, 2007

Dan Deacon blazes raw honey before his sets. Some of us are beginning to notice that he is high on bee guts.


This is the tour van, blah blah blah. As you can notice we had to buy a roof rack to fit Dan Deacon on the ride, blah blah blah literally.


Every time we wonder what Hayes is up to we find him in a corner silently strumming his guitar in a pose similar to that of a desert cactus.

Girl Talk / Dan Deacon / White Williams:

09-27 San Diego, CA - Epicentre
09-28 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex (two shows)
09-29 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium
10-06 Iowa City, IA - The Picador