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For their latest stunt, the people of Improv Everywhere left a megaphone on a lectern in several spots around New York City. A sign on the lectern invited people to “say something nice.” New Yorkers proved to be up to the task. Link -via Gizmodo
Improv Everywhere staged a horse race at Bryant Park, complete with jockeys, announcers, and even a bugler -on the carousel! The audience seemed to enjoy it, and the winner was quite pleased. Link -via The Daily What
For their latest gag, the folks at Improv Everywhere invited King Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) to stand before his portrait painted by Diego Velázquez. His Majesty offered free autographs to anyone at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City who wanted one. Some people suspected that he was just an actor, and not the actual king.
Link via Super Punch
The folks at Improv Everywhere used 3,000 participants for their latest mission. Each had an MP3 player that received simultaneous instructions (and music). That had to appear really strange to anyone not in on the plan! It all culminated in a flashmob at Bryant Park. Link -via The Daily What
Improv Everywhere took a group of several hundred people to the beach at Coney Island in formal wear, just to see how people would react. If I saw this, I would have assumed it was a wedding reception where they served a bit too much champagne. Read about it at the site. Link -via The Daily What
I’ve heard more than one New Yorker wish that tourists on sidewalks would either speed up or get out of the way. Improv Everywhere ran with this idea and spray painted actual traffic lanes marked “New Yorkers” and “Tourists” on a section of sidewalk. Then the pranksters tried to enforce them.
It took four days for municipal maintenance workers to remove the lanes.
New Yorkers, would you like to see carried out officially?
via Urlesque | Official Website
Previous Improv Everywhere Pranks:
Food Court Musical
Ghostbusters in New York Public Library
Frozen in Grand Central Station
Mobile Desktop Prank
First, men covered with sheets, one by one, entered the reading room at the New York Public Library and engaged in normal library patron activities. People noticed, and the dramatic tension began to build. Then our four heroes appeared to deliver the library from this paranormal menace.
For our latest mission, we brought the movie Ghostbusters to life in the reading room of the main branch of the New York Public Library. The 1984 movie begins with a scene in the very same room, so we figured it was time for the Ghostbusters to make an encore appearance.
via CrunchGear
Improv Everywhere set up a portrait studio aboard a subway train and persuaded riders to have their pictures taken for the “subway yearbook”. Read the story behind this mission and see more pictures and a video at their website. Link -via Buzzfeed
Telephone Line (2002)
Metropolitan Transit Authority in collaboration with TelecomThis homage to the urgency of communication is meant to highlight the recent necessity, from instant to instant, to maintain the potential for instantaneous, world-wide contact from any location, at any time. That a conversation from such a location would be abruptly interrupted by an arriving train suggests the artist’s intent to lampoon the perceived dependence on telecommunication.
Commuters passing by didn’t know what to make of the performance, but some ended up really enjoying themselves at the gallery opening! Link -via Metafilter
The latest from improv everywhere. Agent Lathan spent all morning during the rush standing next to a subway escalator giving out high fives, more than 2000 in total
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You can check out previous years’ pantless rides and other great pranks on ImprovEverywhere’s YouTube channel.
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