Chaotic Fun:
This American Life this week features a New York City-based group called Improv Everywhere which creates scenes of ranndomness in public places. Its not Flash Mobbing per se because everyone knows each other and the events last longer than a few minutes.
Some of these “missions” are genius. Creating a luxurious restroom in a McDonalds. Positioning dancers in the windows of a skyscraper.
What great ideas. I might have to do something like this for my book. Although listen to the story on TAL. Some of the ideas go terribly wrong.
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This was a great story. Their site’s fun too, I’m all about messing with people’s mundane routines. “The MP3 Experiment” reminds me a lot of a dance party I stumbled into in front of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Since all the music was broadcast through headphones, our dancing was the audience’s “performance art.” Took people a while to ‘get it’ but they enjoyed it just the same.
This was a great story. Their site’s fun too, I’m all about messing with people’s mundane routines. “The MP3 Experiment” reminds me a lot of a dance party I stumbled into in front of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Since all the music was broadcast through headphones, our dancing was the audience’s “performance art.” Took people a while to ‘get it’ but they enjoyed it just the same.