The response to our Frozen Grand Central mission has been unbelievable. The YouTube video has over 10 million views and counting. It’s been covered by The Today Show, Nightline, Good Morning America, and countless news outlets around the world.
Most interestingly, it’s inspired people in 70 other cities in 34 countries to stage their own freeze mission. Thousands of Global Agents worldwide in places like Romania, Poland, Italy, China, Sweden, and New Zealand have come together to make time stop for five short minutes. Below is a roundup of all of the videos we’ve seen of the various global freeze events. Congrats to all of the local organizers, and remember you can get involved yourself at IE Global.
Interactive Map of Freeze Events
Afton, Wyoming
Arcadia, CA
Århus, Denmark
Barcelona, Spain
Beijing, China
Berlin, Germany
Berne, Switzerland
Beirut, Lebanon
Bielefeld, Germany
Blacksburg, Virginia (Virgina Tech)
Bloomington, Minnesota
Bogota, Colombia
Boston, Massachusetts
Brisbane, Australia
Bratislava, Slovakia
Brno, Czech Republic
Brussels, Belgium
Calgary, Canada
Chicago, Illinois
Coimbra, Portugal
Constanta, Romania
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dublin, Ireland
Durham City, UK (Durham University)
Edina, Minnesota
Edinburgh, UK
Florence, Italy
Helsinki, Finland
Hong Kong, China
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lausanne, Switzerland
Leszczynski, Poland
London, UK
Los Angeles, California
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Madrid, Spain
Manila, Philippines
Mexico City, Mexico
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Montreal, Canada
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Nuremburg, Germany
Orlando, Florida
Oxford, Ohio
Paris, France
Portland, Oregon
Prague, Czech Republic
Pretoria, South Africa
Quebec City, Canada
Raleigh, North Carolina
Rome, Italy
San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara, California
Seattle, Washington
Shanghai, China
St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK
Stockholm, Sweden
Sydney, Australia
Toronto, Canada
Tokyo, Japan
Utrecht, Netherlands
Vancouver, Canada
Vienna, Austria
Vilnius, Lithuania
Wellington, New Zealand
Zürich, Switzerland
Atlanta, Georgia (no video yet)
Riga, Latvia (no video yet)
Malmö, Sweden (no video yet)
Shreveport, Louisiana (no video yet)
Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments.
Remarkable! I’ve never seen anything so fascinating. The responses of the uninitiated are interesting; they instinctively grasp for any ‘reasonable’ explanation: they’re posing for a picture, staging a protest, etc. Their minds can’t quite wrap around the idea that maybe, just maybe! time has stopped in some manner. It confuses and frightens some, arouses anger in others, and inspires giddiness in most. Then there are the few sad people who simply ignore the phenomenon and slog through like nothing is different- untouched, unmoved, unliving.
Where do I sign up? I want to be a part of it! :-)
There was also one in Wellington, New Zealand.
Atlanta, GA was also a part of the synchronized national – or I should say, North American Freeze on the 23rd. Alas, our video crew was trapped in a horrendous traffic jam and arrived too late. We are trying to round up what we can. Over 70 agents participated in an area called Atlantic Station. We were in an open courtyard between numerous restaurants and lots of pedestrian traffic. Go to Improve Everywhere Global and check out the Atlanta section for personal accounts, photos and reactions.
Chicago had a slo-mo/freeze in an Apple store as well – our second official event (after no pants).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F2PDUjyhAg
Freeze in place will happen today in central railway station in Riga, Latvia
The Netherlands did one aswell in the central station of Utrecht:
Youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jTkj2JdQMAY
Better Quality (but on a Dutch site):
http://www.ad.nl/utrecht/stad/2089164/Honderden_bevriezen_op_station.html
The Netherlands (Shoqs) froze on Utrecht Central Station on the 27th of February, the video is currently in editing.
It would be great to make a “fake news report” about a pandemy or a global disease or something like that with all these videos :p
Hello !
You forgot Strasbourg (France), no really a freeze, but still, take a look !
It took place on the 9th of february :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d9lh_flashmob-a-la-gare-de-strasbourg_creation
http://strasmobs.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19108820507
I absolutely love these experiments!
I am going to host one where I live, in our Galleria!
You are my inspiration!!
Very interesting and fun project… two thoughts:
First, It would be cool though if the quality of the video was better. The herky-jerky manner of the YouTubes sorta defeats the purpose. The point, after all, is the marked contrast between those who freeze and those not in on it.
Second, the cynical bastard part of me thinks it would be instructive (and fun!) if one of these could be executed somewhere in a particularly christianoid part of America (the deep south? Kansas?). The cries of “it’s the rapture! Praise be!” would underscore the delusional nature of a hopefully receding brand of belief that has been too harmful lately. I haven’t read enough about the purpose of these freezes to know if there is a larger point to be made but if there is, this might be one.
Otherwise, well done!
I love your idea!!!
Greetings from chile.
Rodrigo.
hey! i like this! it’s fascinating!! when can i join in Belgium :p haha greetings, liesbeth XxX
absolutely amazing!
I’d really love to freeze one of the busiest stations in the world, the Shibuya station in Tokyo.It will be massively interesting and thrilling if I could just stop that hectic atmosphere for a minute!
Freeze in Lithuania:
http://www.lrytas.lt/videonews/?id=12044814951202899839&sk=6
Am I the only one who finds this entirely uninspired? I hope these people are at least using their frozen time to come up with better ideas.
We just had a short one here in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada! :)
Wow, this was just amazing. Kudos to the people who participated, they really did a great job holding their poses! This was so interesting, and the global response is phenomenal!
I think it’s great that people are able to do this. I don’t know what the overall purpose is, but I do know one thing… Imagine if a group such as this can work together in unison to remain still in a crowd, what then could we do as a whole if we set our minds to it? ANYTHING!.
Bravo on the work guys. Bravo indeed.
HI just to let you know thanks to your 1st kick, i organized alone a freezing in CENTRal station in Brussels capital of europe…360 people came to poetically freeze.it was a great moment. the video this week.
fabrice