a pretty funny stunt  :wtf:  :laugh:

 

 

February 1, 2008

Video of the Day: Frozen Grand Central

 

Improv Everywhere was back recently causing a commotion (or more appropriately: a standstill) at Grand Central. For this prank the troupe had 207 "agents" in place that all froze on cue for five minutes. (We'd love to see this go down in Times Square.) The below footage shows the latest stunt:

 

 

 

The onlookers prove to be equally entertaining, and didn't know what to think (protest? acting class?). One employee trying to move his cart through the terminal has to radio in for help: "I can't move my cart, there's hundreds of people frozen everywhere. This is wild. I need some help." Improv Everywhere: making the commute more interesting.

 

 

http://gothamist.com/2008/02/01/video_of_the_da_159.php#comments

Wooo! Flash mob!!! :roll:

Too much time on their hands.. get a job, hippies.

postcard fodder for European tourists...

Having been through Grand Central many a time, I can only think what must have gone through people's heads when they saw this... very cool effect, and could really freak some people out (the poor cart driver, for instance, seemed to be at a total loss). If you weren't already paranoid, this could send you there.

 

It's amazing how unnatural or unexpected behavior can just completely disrupt a person's psyche... and to the "hippie" comment, I say PFFFFFFFTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Get a LIFE...

Having navigated Grand Central during morning rush hour, I'm really surprised people didn't just bulldoze through some of these yohos. I personally prefer the hip-switch mambo to navigate that place, but whatever it takes.

Too much time on their hands.. get a job, hippies.

 

Sorry that life is just too much of a party for you.

 

I personally found it hilarious. I've been watching the site for years, and we've planned smaller-scale improvs down here with pretty good success.

I thought that was totally cool.

Too much time on their hands.. get a job, hippies.

 

So taking an hour or so out of their day to do something like this is having too much time on their hands?  Got forbid people have a little fun once in a while and break up the humdrum daily routine a little.  It's not like this was dangerously disruptive or anything. With all of the cheers after it was done, it looked to me like a lot of people enjoyed it. 

Jesus.. learn to pick up sarcasm people..

Totally, totally loved it!

Wooo! Flash mob!!! :roll:

 

i bet your posts wouldn't look like that if it happened in tower city....  :wink:

I thought this was awesome! What a great idea and very creative... I love stuff like this. It's almost like an interactive art show or something...

 

I like everything this group does actually.

One more strike against suburbia: you could NEVER pull this off at Wal*mart.

 

Another glorious use of public space:

 

^That is awesome.  It's one thing to plan a goofy flashmob thing, but another to bust moves on a moving train.

 

I like frozen Grand Central OK (though I have general embarrassment projection problem whenever I witness performance art first hand), but I think I prefer the annual no-pants on the subway day the same group sponsors- the 2008 day was a couple weeks ago:

 

http://gothamist.com/2008/01/13/no_pants_day_20.php

This isn't a flash mob, the best description of what Improv Everywhere is on This American Life

 

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=286

 

Click 'full episode'

 

you can skip the first lori gutlieb story (I wouldn't it is amusing) and listen to the Improv Everywhere story at time point 12 minutes 12 seconds

 

 

 

That was seriously amazing. Loved that. I live in the greatest freaking city in the world.