Today’s Wall Street Journal has a nice article about Improv Everywhere and many of the groups covered on this blog. Check it out:
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Mp3 Experiment: NYC, Chicago, SF
The date of Improv Everywhere’s annual Mp3 Experiment has been announced. New York City will be hosting its fifth annual event and the fun is touring this year to Chicago and San Francisco. For now only the dates have been released, but more information will be released the week of September 15.
9/27 – NYC (Governor’s Island)
9/28 – Chicago (Location TBA)
10/4 – San Francisco (Location TBA)**
Mp3 Experiment 5 – Save The Date at Improv Everywhere
**Chicago date may change. More info soon. We also may add one more city to the tour!
Upcoming: Improv Everywhere in Germany
Two agents from Improv Everywhere in New York are traveling to Germany next week to organize a mission in the town of Erlangen for the Arena Festival. Anyone who lives in the area is invited to attend.
Details:
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Markgrafentheater
City/Town: Erlangen, Germany
Upcoming: Mp3 Experiment Geneva
There will be an Mp3 Experiment happening in Geneva, Switzerland next Thursday. The event is being organized by a local group. See the Geneva Mp3 Games site for more details (helpful if you speak French!)
The Mp3 Experiment was created by Improv Everywhere in 2004. There have been four installments so far in New York, with a fifth planned for later this year.
The Mp3 Experiment Four
The Mp3 Experiment III
The Mp3 Experiment 2.0
The Mp3 Experiment
Meet a Black Guy
A duo in Oregon recently staged a new version of Improv Everywhere‘s 2006 mission Meet a Black Person. They set up their “Meet a Black Guy” booth at the farmer’s market in their hometown Corvallis, which is overwhelmingly white.
There’s a write up about it in their local paper, and the duo was interviewed on NPR (where they kindly give a shout out to the original Improv Everywhere mission.)
In other news the original Black Person just got hired back for his third season as a writer on MAD TV, and the editor of the original video (below) just got hired back for his second season! Congrats to Colton Dunn and Chris Kula!
World Freeze Phenomenon
Interactive Map of Freeze Events
The “freeze” craze started by Improv Everywhere’s Frozen Grand Central mission has now reached 70 cities in 34 countries and 6 continents (come on Antarctica, get with the program!) Agent Piskvor from Prague made a very cool map showing the locations of all the freeze missions. It’s a Google Map, so you can interact with it and click through to see the video for each city.
A couple of recent freezes of note include the first freeze in the Middle East:
Beirut, Lebanon
…and a freeze in Hong Kong where legislators and councilors from the local government participated.
Frozen Hong Kong, Councilors Version
Human Mirror
For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, they filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror.