Published on
December 29, 2007 in
News.
All are invited to participate in the 7th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride. The event will take place at 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 12. Everything you need to know is in this email. Please read it carefully!
REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION
1) Willing to take pants off on subway
2) Able to keep a straight face about it
**THIS IS A PARTICIPATORY EVENT. DO NOT SHOW UP UNLESS YOU PLAN TO TAKE YOUR PANTS OFF. THIS INCLUDES NEWS MEDIA**
DETAILS
When: Saturday, January 12 at 3:00 PM, Sharp! (Over by around 5:30)
Where: Meet at Foley Square at the black sculpture/fountain. It’s near the Brooklyn Bridge 6 train stop, between Centre and Lafayette, just north of Duane. (Google Map)
Bring: A backpack and a metro card.
Do not bring: A camera (don’t worry we are taking pictures)
Wear: Normal winter clothes (hat, gloves, etc)
Complete logistics below: Continue reading ‘No Pants 2k8 Details for NYC’
Published on
December 29, 2007 in
News.
This year, we’re encouraging folks to organize No Pants Subway Rides in their home towns. If you’ve got a subway system, or some form of mass transportation (bus? trolley?) then get involved on our Facebook group and organize your own ride.
The key here is for someone to step forward and take on the responsibility of being a leader in each town. Agent Sablich took the reigns in Boston and started an event for it and now has over 110 people confirmed to attend! If you want to be the leader for your town’s ride, create a Facebook event and email it to us so we can promote it on this page.
So far there are 10 regional events planned for Saturday, January 12. Here are there Facebook event pages:
New York
Boston
Washington DC
Portland, OR
San Francisco
Chicago
Toronto
Adelaide, Australia(!)
Baltimore, MD
Salt Lake City
UPDATE: For those without Facebook, I’ve posted all of the information on the regional events below and will continue to update this page as information comes in. Continue reading ‘No Pants 2k8 in Your City’
Published on
December 12, 2007 in
News.
The 7th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride will take place on Saturday, January 12. That’s one month from today! More info on meeting point and start time will be posted to this site in early January. For now, save the date. If you live outside of the New York City area, consider holding your own No Pants ride on your town’s local transportation. You can meet and organize via our Facebook Group.
For the uninitiated, see below for a video history of our past No Pants events.
Continue reading ‘Save The Date: No Pants! 2008′
Published on
December 11, 2007 in
News.
Apparently Best Buy didn’t think our blue polo shirts (with a yellow price tag reading “Improv Everywhere”) were quite as funny as we did. They sent a Cease and Desist letter to both us and our friends at Neighborhoodies who were selling the shirts. Neighborhoodies couldn’t afford to have their entire site taken down (as was threatened) during their busiest month of the year, so they pulled the shirts. We weren’t making any commission on the shirts ourselves (in order to have them be as cheap as possible), but it was a shame to see such a cool shirt go. We figured Best Buy was probably not in the right legally, but did not want to deal with the hassle of legal fees to prove our point.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. Today, Best Buy sent a C&D to our friend Scott Beale over at laughingsquid.com threatening legal action unless he removes the blog post referencing our shirts! They’re threatening to sue someone for just covering the news story of the shirts!
You can see his original post here: IE Best Buy Blue Polo Shirts
And see the mission that inspired all of this here: Best Buy Mission
Our T-Shirt version of the shirt is still for sale: Best Buy Logo T-Shirt ($5.99)
Other Improv Everywhere Missions in retail stores:
111 Shirtless Men in Abercombie and Fitch
Slow Motion Shopping in Home Depot
Dead Playwright Anton Chekov Speaks at Barnes and Noble
Hijacking Listening Stations at Virgin Megastore
Creating a Time Warp in Starbucks
UPDATE: Best Buy Apologizes to Laughing Squid!
UPDATE: Minneapolis local TV news covers the story!
Check out our C&D letter after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Best Buy Handing Out C&D Letters for Christmas’
Published on
December 9, 2007 in
News.
Yeah, we’re as just surprised as you are. Women’s magazine Marie Claire has a story about our No Shirts mission in the January 2008 issue on newstands now. Here it is:
Congrats to IE Chief Photographer Chad Nicholson for getting his photo in a national mag!
If you want to see the issue yourself, just turn to page 66 in the magazine with the tasteful Christina Aguilera photo on it.
