A huge thanks to everyone who came out to The Mp3 Experiment Six today on Roosevelt Island! Our apologies to everyone who didn’t get an inflatable weapon. We bought 1,400 of them, but damn they went fast! I think it’s pretty safe to say there were around 2.3 jabillion people there.
We are starting to get the photos up from our official photographers. We’ll keep adding links to them to this post.
It will be a few weeks before we have any video to show, but stay tuned. All of today’s music was created by Tyler Walker. You can visit his site to download the songs.
Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of the new book afterwards! If you didn’t get a chance to stop by the book table, why not order it online? :)
photo by Katie Sokoler
my wife and i rented bikes and took the tram over to roosevelt island, stopping for lunch at about 3:30. very quickly, we realized something odd was happening. my real-time tweets (including such gems as “No idea what will happen. Everyone in a red, blue, yellow or red shirt with a white undershirt.” and “People pointing at things. Now introducing themselves to folks. And high fiving.”) are at pbump.net if anyone is interested.
Haha I love your tweets pbump
i had a blast! This was my first ImprovEverywhere event and hoping to attend more.
had an amazingg time! (except falling into a old lady’s lap on the subway heading to Queens because of the jolt of the subway cart). met charlie and got a book, and fell alseep for nap time on dirty mulch. I did not get a hammer. It was amazingg.. much have been more than 2.3 ja-billion. I can’t wait for the next event – make it soon!!!
- Sarah
I had a great time! On our walk down to the south end of the island, a young woman (Hi, Rachel!) approach me and asked me what was going on. I explained and shared my headphones with her. She had as much fun as the rest of us! Afterwards, I bought the book and got it signed by Charlie. BTW, it was his partner-in-crime (Mark?) in the wolf suit.
It was my second MP3 Experiment and I can’t wait for next year!
It was a total blast! Thanks, Charlie, and everyone for all the work.
We’re from Arizona and our whole family LOVED being part of something awesome like this (it’s my son in the blue shirt who is the hammer general at the top of this post).
If anyone found the camera that I dropped (probably during nap time)–a little black Sony with 300-ish pictures of Dwight Schrute (from The Office) posing at all our holiday travel destinations from the last 10 days, please contact me at parkerfive(at)gmail.com
Thanks again!
Jana from AZ
Where to start? First of all, the weather was great and everything was just perfect for an Improv Everywhere Mission!!! Job well done. I was glad to get to meet Charlie and Alex, even if only briefly.
Alex, I was the first book you signed after returning, still in the wolf costume, so I apologize for it being passed to you without giving you a beat to breathe, But I thank you as I’m extremely greatfull you both signed it. I’ve started reading it and loving it so far!
I met a lot of first time attendees and their reactions are all the same. Everyone had a blast, and the conversations always ended with “We’ll see you next year!” – I hope not only to see them again at more MP3 Experiments, but at other Improv Everywhere missions. Being from Long Island, it’s difficult for me to run into the city for short-term events, especially during the week, but I am definitely going to continue making an effort to support Improv Everywhere. This was my fourth MP3 Experiment and it won’t be my last.
Once again, Thank you Charlie, Alex, all the IE agents who worked their butts off to make this happen, and of course, the more than 2000 (Wow! I don’t think anyone saw that coming) of you who came down to participate. See you next year!
Agent Hurricane Andrew and I had a blast. Another brilliant success. All the best!
I took my eight year old sister along with me and we both had a blast. Her headphones came out of her iPod Shuffle and stopped her playback, but thankfully I brought a headphone splitter with me and we shared the audio from my iPhone. She loved (or loathed haha) the Steve Says “wave at the youngest person around you” where easily 100+ people waved at her. We had an amazing time all together and spoke to a bunch of great people. Big props to that one nice girl who overheard me looking for my shirt and brought it over for me.
Little sis was a little upset about not getting a hammer, but really such a small take-away considering all that went on. The memories and photos (and eventual video) will last forever! Or at least until this hellbeast known as the internet goes away forever.
Here are a few photos I snapped with my iPhone:
http://gallery.me.com/requieminadream#101073
My friends and I decided to go on a whim, and I’m so, so glad we did!
Thanks to everyone for a great time!
A big hello and thank you from the Norwegians participating today!
The three of us had a blast. This was our second improv mission, and the temperature was a bit more to our liking today (our first time was the The Camera Flash Experiment…brr…cold)
Looking forward to read the book on the flight back to Norway!
See you next year! (maybe…)
i started up near the basketball courts and when following another bball player and disrupting their game, one of the other players being followed, jump and grabbed the rim and pulled himself up into the basket and then sat up there. safe to say his followers had trouble following. also freeze tag on the walk towards the field (loose rocks) was fun, if dangerous. sadly my jeans came out worse for wear cus i took not getting tagged too seriously and had a nice spill, but the damage that would have been done had i worn shorts would have been grave. i’m wondering if i should flesh out my idea for a mp3 experiment plot and submit it . ..
Great turnout this year! Year 3 for me and i enjoyed this one a lot. Not only were there A LOT of participants, there were also plenty of innocent by-standers. I personally was approached by a man before the event started who wondered what was going on and if there was an event going on. Of course i replied nonchalantly that we were simply “hanging out”.
Got to meet Alex and Charlie which really made my day. Got pictures with both and autographs.
Thank you so much for another successful event. Looking forward to year four and another amazing time.
I will never get the smell of the plastic bat out of my nose lol…..GOOOO RED TEAM!!! I had so much fun!! It was great to see people come together and have a great time. After all the work that school brough last semester this was a great escape from all that. Thanks so much for a great time!!!
Here’s my set of photos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katesokoler/sets/72157618696859572/
It was so much fun! Adults should get together to play with other random adults MUCH more often!
AHHH! I LOVED THAT! I did feel like the walked down the island and having to walk back up was annoying but I got over that, with the TRAM! Lol.
Anyway, I loved the whole end part with the charge. That was fun. Like, movie quality fun to me. lol.
“GOOOO RED TEAM!!!” “Go Yellow!” “GO BLUE!”
Have you all learned nothing? Segregation only makes things worse, we need to all become white-shirted warriors!
Year 2 here, sooooo much fun, got two newbies to come and they loved it. I am so thankful for nap time after freeze tag, even though I laid down on pebbles lol
Lovely turn out, got a slow motion hug,awesome.
Green Rocks, but white won the gold :)
Amazing time today