A friend of mine once went to a redneck bar in a suit with his invisible friend John and his invisible dog Fred. He kept ordering drinks for John and chicken bones for Fred.
Just pretend you’re in on a Candid Camera stunt. Pull a prank on someone then go Alan Funt on them and point to where the secret camera is hidden. Give them a bogus business card that has a website that links to goatse or something.
Watch a person walk down the street. Now make chalk outlines of where his/her feet had been.
Stand on the corner with a sandwich board that says “Free Love”. Hand out coupons for “A kiss with a stranger”. Make sure they have an expiration date.
Put a movie in the VCR and do a slow rewind through it. Write a story based on what you saw backwards.
Stand at the post office and offer to help lick any envelopes/stamps.
Express yourself without using adjectives.
Sleep backwards on your bed. (Feet where your head normally is.)
Get a camera and ask to take pictures of someone’s forearm on a daily basis. Make a collage.
No more plates. All food will be eaten out of drinking cups.
Get a bunch of mason jars. Go to various places like “The Corner of 4th and Main Str” or “3rd floor doorway in Prudential Building”. Collect air and label and seal the mason jars. Display prominently.
Take the collars and sleeves off of your shirts and swap them without shirts.
Attach speakers to your back and play your “theme music” whenever you enter or leave a room.
Some things I’ve done (really):
Turn all the furniture upside down. Invite freinds over.
Cover every inch of the walls, floor and ceiling with newspaper. Very cool.
Using colored plastic, make the windows look like stained glass, put some Gregorian chant on, and turn your house into a church. Hold a service and invite people.
A second vote for food coloring, but it’s even better when you serve stuff to people.
Move a sofa into your front yard and sit on it. Alternatively, camp out in your front yard. See how long you can avoid going inside. Talk to people walking by.
Wildly overdress, except for shoes.
Grow a beard, then shave half of it. Try to only let people see you in profile. Alternatively, wear an anti-goatee.
Sell naming rights to things you want to buy: i.e., ask your freind to chip in $20 in exchange for carving his name on your coffee table.
And this isn’t surreal so much as performance art … but get a gorilla suit. Go to the post office, go to the mall, go to the grocery store. Big fun.
Go into a confessional. Absolve the priest. In pig latin.
Everyone should own a good gorilla suit.
google images of Man Ray.
Watch The Exterminating Angel and other Bunuel movies on TCM tonight.
My answer: visit the SMDB and open random threads. Read one post from each.
If you have a chair with wheels at work, refuse to stand up and walk for a day. Wheel your chair everywhere, including into the bathroom.
Refuse to talk directly to anyone at work. Instead, call them on their cell phones. Refuse to listen unless they call your cell phone.
Inspired by Dali- Buy a plastic lobster. Cut out a compartment and place your cell phone inside the lobster. The desired result is that you can easily use your phone, but most people can only see a man holding a plastic lobster. Tell no one the lobster contains a phone.
Wear 3-D glasses for a week.
