“Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places,” says their website. Every new post is a new “mission” and the people that participate are “agents.” Sounds like something Joan would come up with. They have some great missions: one where two hundred people don’t where pants while they are on the train, one where a bunch of people dress up with blue shirts and khakis and go into a best buy to fuck with everybody, and one where they find a stranger in bar and pretend its his birthday. Here is a video from something they called a MP3 Experiment. The mission is to download an mp3, meet at a park and press play on that track all at the same moment. Its in four parts, here is the first.
A while back, NPR had a story about a new urban “sport” called Parkour. It reminds me of when kids went skitching with their rollerblades on the back of cars. There are gyms that are popping up that help teach how to do it right, because if you keep watching more youtube videos, you will inevitably see many attempts at mastering the urban jungle but instead faceplanting.
Well since Rachel started the trend… Last week I got to see a ’21’ free sneak preview and let me tell you it was awesome! Before seeing it I was quite worried about the movie being a horrendous tribute to the book, ‘Bringing Down the House’, but even as a big fan of Ben Mezrich as an author I still loved the movie. Starring Jim Sturgess (Jude, Across the Universe), Kevin Spacey, and Kate Bosworth the trio does their best to live up to the characters in the book. Basically I loved it and the book is great so watch/read both. But if you are gonna read a Mezrich book, ‘Ugly Americans‘ is my personal favorite telling the story of one man who played games with the Japanese markets.
