Mp3 Experimenting

Sorry for the lack of posts. This afternoon we finally got cable and the internet. Now I don’t have to go outside all winter!

As for this weekend, it was strangely action filled. Even when I didn’t do all that much, it was still relatively better than most weekends spent on the north side of Manhattan. Below are a series of photos from Saturday’s Mp3 Experiment on Governor’s Island with Monica and Dave. In a nutshell, it is a thousand 20 somethings running around in a group all listening to the same mp3 of instructions in sync with one another. Our “lord” Steve gave us instructions such as thumb wrestle another person or twirl an umbrella above your head, in the end we had quite the “EPIC BATTLE” of the people wearing Blue and Green versus Red and Yellow.

I had a great time. I had wanted to participate for the past two years only to be in Alaska both times. Only complaint is with human nature. In any large groupthink situation, some people are going to take it WAY to far, and some to shy to participate. I fall right in the steady middle, not to outrageous but not standing still.

Many thanks to Improv Everywhere and Charlie Todd for throwing it, I can’t wait to bring MORE people to it next fall. The following pictures were taken during our meditation and relaxation portion of the program with the exception of the last pic.

Best thing of the day was this girl below with the umbrella hat recognized me from the pillow fight. I had interviewed her and her father at the event because he was wearing a hard hat with a bulls eye on it. I was walking away when she noticed me, so I excused myself saying, “I am not surprised at all to find you here.”

Photo by Brian Fountain, all of his Mp3 pics can be found here.

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