A huge thanks to the hundreds of agents who came out tonight to participate in our latest mission. The weather could not have been worse, and we can’t thank you guys enough for sticking with it in the rain and the cold. Agent Shafer will be working on the video footage very soon, so stay tuned. Tag your photos with “iebb” on Flickr, and post links in the comments. For now, here are a couple of shots of the meeting point from Agent Nicholson.
Anyone have their version of the games of telephone that we started? We started one in one direction and one in the other.
That was possibly the coldest I’ve ever been but I had a lot of fun. Hot chocolate afterwards was delicious.
Last night we had fun
The rain was not our friend
Look at our pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26648302@N02/tags/iebb/
Poor Charlies voice was practically gone by the time he did the second run from manhattan side to brooklyn side.
Just a couple:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34697070@N00/tags/iebb/
Wow. I think I caught pneumonia, or I should have.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26662141@N02/sets/72157605105552740/
Wet weather–no problem! A Good time had by most if not all!
What better way to spend my last night being 50 years young!!!!
Officially joined the 51 Club, today(5/17)!!!!
Hope for more FUN like this, in the coming year!!!
Thanks to everyone!
I was so excited about getting into a mission, but my little group missed the first bus by 10 seconds, then the second bus took 2 hours due to Manhattan traffic last night, and my friend did a little subway-system-screw-up, and we ended up lost and forcing ourselves to keep moving and at least get to the meeting point at 9:45 in hopes someone would still be there… There was one guy there, Andrew from Hell’s Kitchen who was late as well. It was cool to at least meet somebody headed in the same direction. The three of us are disappointed we didn’t quite make it, but hopefully next time the weather will cooperate… Can’t wait to read the reports!
On the way out of the subway station, I stopped someone and asked directions, the man looked at me and said, “What is going on there? Some kind of big meeting there tonight?” so I said, “What do you mean?” and he said that a lot of people had come up and asked him the same directions over and over, “hundreds of people all with umbrellas”.
Here’s my batch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26626736@N05/sets/72157605105707074/
Looking forward to the video! It would’ve been great if somebody caught the looks and comments of passers-by. “What the hell is going on here?” Priceless :)
I didn’t mind the rain, the wind, the cold, or standing in the middle of the bridge for an hour. I just think it’s not the same if you’re not doing stuff directly in front of people so you can see/hear reactions. Not one of the best missions…
Top of bridge + wind + rain = very cold but somehow still fun 8)
I think nobody anticipated the communication problem and how loud the cars and the rain were. An afterthought is we could have had somebody drive a very noticeable vehicle along the bridge with blinkers on and high beams repeatedly flashing with a steady horn or something along those lines as a cue for everyone to snap their photos. Watching Charlie run made me want to brace myself for a faceplant.
The “grand finale” was a disaster. We should have had a set time say 1030 with everyone referring to the huge amitron clock I believe that was on the Brooklyn side.
Still as a first timer this was a fun experience and I will definitely be back for future missions =)
That was a great idea. The rain wasn’t ideal, but it make it less crowded and I think it will add to the visual in some ways – all those flashes bouncing off the raindrops. I just wish I had thought to bring an umbrella!
Here’re my pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirka23/sets/72157605099257337/
A few shots from my perspective:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=iebb&w=48067464%40N00
It was fun. Wet, but fun.
My first mission! Very exciting, the rain was merciless but we had fun with it anyways.
Pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26664303@N02/tags/iebb/
Wow, you guys have a huge pool of agents to work with; the turnout, despite the weather, was amazing. I’m looking forward to the next big mission like this. In the mean time, I’ll be recovering from last night–and investing in a new umbrella.
This was my first mission, and it was thoroughly silly! I came alone (I suppose all my friends are more sensible than I am; their loss) but met lots of cool folks (guy from the southern hemisphere with a creative beard whose name I didn’t get, should you happen to see this, let me know if you’d like to get a drink some time- I was (possibly) the (only) girl with a purple umbrella). I’m really curious to see how this madness looked from the other bridge, people going across on the train must’ve been impressed.
Also, I don’t seem to have caught pneumonia, hurrah!
http://flickr.com/photos/sillycaitlin/tags/iebb/
Man that was something else… looking forward to seeign the footage from the Manhattan bridge!
http://flickr.com/photos/adroit/tags/iebb/
I hate to be the one to say it, but that was miserable for me. Granted the weather was not something anyone could have controlled but a bit more planning would of made things go much smoother. I did meet friendly people and we chuckled here and there but Charlie, instead of running the span of the bridge multiple times instruct the audience in a simple technique. Telephone. Just have the person on one end of the bridge start the action and say go to the person next to them. That way the flashes are more properly synchronized and you don’t have to run across the bridge several times. Just a thought. Not trying to stop the parade of positivity. Additionally (and perhaps this was in use), try using simple radios to communicate with other agents.
@Splash Pants,
Believe me, the plan was not for Brian, Jonah, and I to have to run across the bridge three times. Maybe you missed the meeting point, but the instructions were for the flashes to be coordinated via “Telephone” like you say. We started it and it went about 15 people and stopped. So at that point we figured if it was going to happen we had to run like hell and make it happen. I’m not sure why it stopped the first time, but it was cold, rainy, windy, and the cars splashing in the rain below were noisy… so I guess it was hard to hear the person next to you. We learned alot on this mission and would definitely do things differently if we did it again, but hindsight is 20/20.
I guess I did miss that instruction. Hopefully next time will go more smoothly.
wow looks clod it was way to hot here