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Produced by Charlie Todd and Matt Adams
For our latest mission, we surprised a random couple sitting on a bench in Central Park with a fancy dinner and a private concert by a wind quintet.
Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
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Produced by Charlie Todd / edited by Cameron Sun / Music by Tyler Walker
For our latest mission we filled a New York park with eight sets of identical quadruplets, creating a surreal experience for anyone who happened to be walking through the park.
This mission is a sequel to our Human Mirror mission from 2008 where we had fifteen pairs of identical twins on the same subway car.
Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
UPDATE: There is a very important update to this project that you should read after you’ve seen the video.
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Produced by Charlie Todd and Matt Adams / Music by Tyler Walker
For our latest mission we converted a New York City subway car into a “sleeper car,” giving New Yorkers the chance to rest their heads during a late night commute. We set up three beds, each outfitted with a comforter, pillow, and sheets. Pajamas, sleep masks, and earplugs were also provided as part of this unauthorized free service. The project took place on the above-ground N train in Astoria, Queens around midnight on a Sunday evening.
The Sleeper Car was produced by Improv Everywhere as part of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition stillspotting nyc. This is our third collaboration in the series, the others being The Mute Button and Say Something Nice.
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For our latest mission, a presenter at the TED conference has his talk interrupted by the Mac spinning wait cursor, commonly known as the “Spinning Beach Ball of Death.” As he stands awkwardly and waits, things get weird. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
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Produced by Charlie Todd / Edited by Andrew Flynn Soltys / Music by Tyler Walker
80 people enter a Manhattan Best Buy wearing blue polo shirts and khaki pants. Chaos ensues.
This 2006 mission is the first in a series of remastered videos we are producing from our archives to commemorate our 10th anniversary. We are going through our original tapes and updating old classics with higher quality video and audio, as well as adding additional never-before-seen footage. Due to file size restrictions in the early days of YouTube, many of these videos have only been seen in extremely low 240p quality. The remastered Best Buy video adds some interactions with employees that we didn’t even realize we had on tape! The original, lengthy Best Buy mission report is still online for your reading pleasure.
Look for more remastered videos in the future including some that have never been posted to YouTube, and stay tuned for a brand new mission coming out in just a few weeks.
We’re also excited to launch our new logo today, designed by Will Schneider of Busted Tees. You can get it on a t-shirt!
Photo by Chad Nicholson
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Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King | Edited by Nathan Russell
For our latest mission, a musical breaks out at a shopping mall in New Jersey. A man is suddenly compelled to express his desire to sit on Santa’s lap via song. This is the fifth in our series of Spontaneous Musical projects. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
Also of note: we have a new DVD and t-shirt for sale! Put them both on Santa’s list when you sit in his lap.
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Produced by Charlie Todd / edited by Nathan Russell / music by Tyler Walker
On Sunday, January 8th, 2012 tens of thousands of people took off their pants on subways in 59 cities in 27 countries around the world. In New York, our 11th Annual No Pants Subway Ride had nearly 4,000 participants, spread out over six meeting points and ten subway lines. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our mission report and photos.
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Producer: Charlie Todd / Editor Andrew Flynn Soltys / Music: Tyler Walker / Black Person: Colton Dunn / Camera: Chris Kula
Since Aspen, Colorado has an African American population of 0.44%, we decided to give the locals a chance to “meet a black person.” We put comedian Colton Dunn in an empty hot chocolate kiosk at the foot of the mountain to greet folks as they exited the slopes.
This 2006 mission is the second in a series of remastered videos we are producing from our archives to commemorate our 10th anniversary. We are going through our original tapes and updating old classics with higher quality video and audio, as well as adding additional never-before-seen footage. Due to file size restrictions in the early days of YouTube, many of these videos have only been seen in extremely low 240p quality. The remastered Meet a Black Person video adds new interactions with Aspen tourists and locals. The original mission report is still online for your reading pleasure.
Look for more remastered videos in the future, including some that have never been posted to YouTube, and stay tuned for our regular schedule of brand new missions throughout the year.
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Produced by Charlie Todd / edited by Cameron Sun / Music by Tyler Walker
[Watch the video first and then read the spoilers below]
If you haven’t figured it out by now, the Quadruplets mission was our annual April Fool’s hoax. We teamed up with filmmaker Cameron Sun and had him create some awesome visual effects. All of the “quadruplets” were single actors mixed with Cam’s special effects. Identical quadruplets are of course very rare, 1 in 13 million. One estimate guesses that there have only been 67 sets of identical quadruplets born ever. So the likelihood of us being able to assemble eight sets in New York via our mailing list was pretty preposterous. Check out the video above, and then enjoy some behind the scenes photos below.
