Time stops at Grand Central

Cafe Society
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Take a look at a cool idea.

http://current.com/items/88830919_time_stops_at_grand_central

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Okay, that is way too cool.

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The group doing this is Improv Everywhere. They do lots of neat stuff.

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That was pretty cool.
I wonder if they were inspired by the Grand Central Station scene from the movie The Fisher King where everyone starts ballroom dancing with eachother for a few minutes.

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I saw this the on another board the other day; very cool.

One commenter noted that the people taking photographs of the event will have a tough time explaining them. “See! This guy here, was perfectly still. But these people were moving, and this one… I guess you had to be there.”

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I was kind of wondering myself why anyone would take a picture of the “frozen” people, or film them…maybe it’s a New York thing!

Very cool vid and idea.

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Well, filming at least makes sense, but pictures would definitely be a little tricky…

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It’s a New York tourist thing.

I surprised no one kicked one of them in the nuts or anything :smiley:

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…or started helping themselves to wallets and such. :slight_smile:

Very cool performance.

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No, your account was quite funny.

Thanks

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I definetly want to find this thread when I get home.

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Improv Anywhere is so awesome.

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I love guerrilla happenings. Especially the kind that screw with you on a basic level like this.

It would be perfect, though, if at some point someone dressed as a typical commuter drone enacted a freakout, spewing hysterical abuse at all the people Not Acting Normal.

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I dunno. I think that what’s great about it is that it’s all so, well, peaceful. A single guy carrying on would draw attention to a single spot and take it away from the situation as a whole.

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OK, good point. I guess I was thinking of it all as performance art, with some point to make about the society we live in. But that’s pretty tiresome to most of us.

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They tend to emphasize the harmlessness and surrealism of their stunts, so a freakout would be kind of anathema for them. In these things their rule is also that everyone must play everything completely straight. It makes it that much funner.