Happy Friday: Improv Everywhere

By on May 22, 2008

Feels great to be home after a long jaunt on the road. That said, I’m tuning out for the weekend for some R&R; and leaving you with something fun and clever. It’s been out for a long time, but I’m a sucker for this stuff. Happy Friday!

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19 Responses to Happy Friday: Improv Everywhere

  1. thesisdesignlab May 22, 2008 at 10:32 pm #

    Welcome to the weekend! Enjoy it. This is a super cool project and definitely worth watching the vid again.

    Cheers! G$

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  2. Stephan Sachs May 23, 2008 at 1:52 am #

    haha – great flashmob ;o) i´d like to see an action like this live – but i think here in germany something like that is not very popular…love it ;o)

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  3. Nadine Toukan May 23, 2008 at 2:00 am #

    ;) Fantastic! I’m such a sucker for this stuff too. A couple weeks ago there was one at a mall in Amman.
    We sometimes forget how important play is.

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  4. Danno May 23, 2008 at 2:16 am #

    I’ve been a fan of their work for well over a year and would love to be a part of one of their missions when I’m in NY.

    Thanks for the fun post Chase!

    Rocksteady,
    Danno~

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  5. Danno May 23, 2008 at 2:17 am #

    I’ve been a fan of their work for well over a year and would love to be a part of one of their missions when I’m in NY.

    Thanks for the fun post Chase!

    Rocksteady,
    Danno~

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  6. Bryant Bell May 23, 2008 at 2:54 am #

    that would be trippy to witness

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  7. Adam Swords May 23, 2008 at 4:20 am #

    Same thing happened in Euston station here in London. A friend of mine was there to photograph it, he said it was so spooky to see everybody stop at the same time!

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  8. Marcos G. Meider May 23, 2008 at 8:32 am #

    That’s fun!. Last march there was one in Barcelona, Spain.
    You can also watch it here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PARm1TCiU4

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  9. TnT May 23, 2008 at 8:51 am #

    I love the audio. Hearing all these confused people is great.

    And then the applause at the end.

    Very cool.

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  10. Allen May 23, 2008 at 9:23 am #

    Brilliant. That’s awesome. :)

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  11. Richard Cave May 23, 2008 at 12:08 pm #

    I want to have a go, right Chase pay for a return flight to Seattle and I will be free for any mob you like,

    What a awesome GV shot this would make

    Rich

    Waiting for the tickets!

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  12. Michael Zahora May 23, 2008 at 12:29 pm #

    Enjoy your down time Chase!

    That was brilliant. Thanks for posting it.

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  13. Richard Cave May 23, 2008 at 4:11 pm #

    In the UK we are having problems with street photography and the jobsworths who are stopping us from shooting in the street. What if we got a a lot of photographers together and at the allotted time every one stands stock still under a cctv camera and photographs it for a couple of minutes. That will upset a few applecarts. Then all the images have to be downloaded to a forum like flickr. it would be awesome.

    I apologise but I have drunk too much caffeine today

    Rich

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  14. keepsake May 23, 2008 at 8:10 pm #

    Always love to see the harmless but eye-opening disruption of our day to day lives. What a shock to be at grand central that day… This is brilliant!

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  15. keith mcadams May 23, 2008 at 9:55 pm #

    I work at best buy and the improv guys did a good prank at one of our stores in nyc

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  16. K.C. May 24, 2008 at 11:46 am #

    Excellent. I am so glad I stopped in at your blog. I have never seen anything like that before. It was great, too, at the end when everyone started clapping and could appreciate the art in it! KC

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  17. Jay McLaughlin May 24, 2008 at 4:53 pm #

    That’s so awesome! I wonder how much fun you could have with that. Would screw with people monitoring CCTV cameras if everyone was just frozen!

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  18. Adeela Badshah May 25, 2008 at 1:17 am #

    That was absolutely delicious! I adore random actions that leave people astounded…

    Enjoy your weekend

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  19. Adeela Badshah May 25, 2008 at 1:24 am #

    Another delicious video is this wall animation, maybe you have seen it, maybe you haven’t but here is the link anyway

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

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