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Surprise Surveillance Theatre

Surprise Surveillance Theater from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

Jason Eppink just released the video from his Surprise Surveillance Theatre project.

He explains:

Surprise Surveillance Theater was an interactive theater experience, performed live for hundreds, unbeknownst to the unwitting stars of the show. It was part of the Lost Horizon Night Market, an extraordinary, modular, participatory art party that takes place in unmarked box trucks on low-traffic back streets in New York City.

The goal was to take unwitting revelers and throw them into a narrative about a black market, requiring the target to pass secret notes, have rendezvous, wear a wire, and make a mystery delivery. All of this was watched by a live audience on more than a dozen TVs showing footage captured by strategically placed video cameras, but the scope of the experience was only revealed to the target at the very end when he or she delivered a secret package to the waiting audience.

David Livingston’s Big Dick Series

David Livingston‘s Big Dick series of videos is cracking us up. He explains on his site:

I see art as a performance, enacted either in crowds of strangers or in the privacy of my studio. In Manhattan’s financial district, I wore a six foot long felt penis sewn together and stuffed with sofa upholstery. During this and subsequent performances, I was fascinated by the public’s reactions (laughter, avoidance, offense) and my own (pride, liberation, shame) as I parodied the figure of the downtown businessman using childish humor.

See more videos on his vimeo page.

New Improv Everywhere: The Tourist Lane


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idea by Jeff Greenspan / edited by Matt Adams / song by Tyler Walker

For Improv Everywhere‘s latest mission, they created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Department of Transportation “employees” were on hand to enforce the new rules and ask pedestrians for their feedback on the initiative. Enjoy the video first and then go behind-the-scenes with the photos and report on IE’s site:

Improv Everywhere: The Tourist Lane


Also check out these other recent Improv Everywhere missions:

I Love Lunch! project page

Who You Gonna Call? project page

Guerrila Handbell Strikeforce project page



Where’s Rob project page

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