Photo by Arin Sang-urai
A huge thanks to everyone who came out to The Mp3 Experiment Eight today! Please use the comments section of this page to describe your personal experience and link to any photos you took.
Here are the photos from our official photographers:
- Agent Chad Nicholson’s photos
- Agent Brian Fountain’s photos
- Agent Ari Scott’s photos
- Agent David Bledsoe’s photos
- Agent Arin Sang-urai’s photos (rooftop photos!)
- Agent Ilya Chigirev’s photos
It will be a few weeks before we have any video to show, but stay tuned. You can subscribe to our YouTube Channel to be the first to know when it is released. As always, all of today’s music was created by our composer Tyler Walker. Check out his site and buy his awesome album! This event was produced in partnership with the River to River Festival.
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Photo by Brian Fountain
UPDATE: Video is up!
This was my first Mp3 Experiment…Awesome time! Can’t wait to see the pics of the light show and the camera flash “wave”! I almost wish I was a bystander…must have been fantastic to watch. Also, was one of the first to the neutral zone (Go White!), and helped make the “tunnel”…that was SO cool…loved whooting at everyone as the ran through!
Great job Improv Everywhere! I’ll be back next year for sure! =)
~Michele
Shout out to all of the Kathryn/Katherine/Catherines that got to be “it” in flashlight tag. That made my night!
I had a great time. I loved seeing the different masks everyone chose.
Photos are uploading here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fountainb/sets/72157627212132328/
Hey all, I was one of the official photogs and I’ve started to upload my photos to this set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40102342@N05/sets/72157627087795557/
More to come!
Fun times.
Thanks again for another great MP3 experiment. I caught Charlie Todd out there taking photos. Hopefully you guys got one of me this year! It’s my fifth, but I brought 1 person for his second, and 2 virgins! They both loved it and will most likely be joining us again next year! I had my first MP3-Snazu this year as my MP3 cut off about 5 minutes early. We just stepped to the sidelines and got some cool photos of the crowd and the sea of sparkling lights! It was an awesome sight! Thanks again Charlie, Improv Everywhere, and the 3000+(?) people who showed up tonight!
Hey guys, black shirt Darth Vader mask with raving orange glowsticks here.
So yea, all of the above were awesome, don’t wanna repeat what others said. I certainly do hope that I didn’t hit too many people while swinging those glowsticks around X:
Also, I KNEW THE SONGS AT THE END! I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO LISTENS TO THIS STUFF
Linkin Park – A Place for my Head (well of course a lot of people know this, but not the following two)
The Flashbulb – Autumn Insomnia Session
Boxcutter – Silver Birch Solstice
Oh god I am so stupid. My iPod was on shuffle -.-;;
HAHA
It’s okay, fellow Darth Vader. Last year, my iPod went to shuffle at the end, and I was all WOW HOW COOL, I LOVE BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY’S COVER OF “MR. HEATMISER” during clean-up before I figured out what was going on.
The universe is probably saved by the fact that we didn’t cross paths during the event. We’d have destroyed the space-time continuum or something.
My ipod played Nyancat after this and i thought it was a part of the end, so i was like, “THIS IS MY RINGTONE!” and everyone just looked at me, until I figured out what happened.
This was my 2nd Mp3 Experiment, the last one being my first, and I enjoyed it immensely. I was part of the black shirts (SOUTH SIDEEEE!) and it was awesome interacting with the northerners. My favorite parts of this year’s experiment were by far when we pretended to walk like we were fast-forwarded, astronauts and rabbits, the light-limbo, the 96 rave, and the masked dancing. I was the guy with the Zach Galifianakis mask if anyone remembers me and/or took a picture with me. If anyone has a picture of me send it to me via email please! :D
alviz95@gmail.com
Thanks for coming everybody. And thanks for being awesome and cool.
More photos on the way soon, and a video in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for a wonder- and colorful experience. I’m visiting friends in NY for a long weekend (I’m from Switzerland) which took me to the Experiment at the pier; something I’ll never forget. Thanks for the awesome 1996 rave party!
Oh, and BTW; thanks also for letting me play ‘tag’, I’m a David ;)
Omg – this was AMAZING!!! This was my very first Improv Everywhere mission ever, and it was GREAT!!! I actually live in Westchester and was late because my metro-north train ran really late (we got stuck), so I only got to do half the mission. But I still had a really great time and it was even MORE of a rush when I finally found you guys (thank god there’s not a lot of grassy fields!! lol) – saw a huge mass of black shirts and white shirts and flashlights and immediately thought, “MY PEOPLE!” So I subtly and calmly walked into the crowd – so as not to alert any bystanders – and joined in flashlight limbo. BRILLIANT!!!
I agree with whoever said above that glowy things make the world a better place. Fantastic idea to have a ‘celebration of lights’ night mission – BRILLIANT! I loved the tag, loved the flashlight limbo, loved the rave lol, loved seeing everyone’s masks, and LOVED the glowsticks! I think the lightsaber battle was my favorite part. Let’s have more of that!! :-D
I also completely loved the beginning part even though I missed it – I was listening on my way there so my MP3 could still be synced with everyone else’s. Especially the bowing and the weird walking – walk like a mummy! walk like you’re walking on coals! LOL – and I burst out laughing just on my own, on the street when Mark The Omnipotent Voice From Above (lolol) said to laugh. So I drew some extra weird looks aside from the main event, lol.
The bowing thing was BRILLIANT. Did that on my way there too. ;-)
The only thing: can we make it longer next time? An hour was NOT enough time for so much fun. Maybe a special two-hour one? I would TOTALLY be up for that. Or even just an hour and a half. So many of us were still ready to party on and on and on. :-D!! can’t WAIT till next year!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!! IMPROV EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was my first mission. LOVED IT! and I’m a Michael… loved playing tag! Of course mom got frozen and couldn’t keep up….. But I made lots of friends, and found mom. Can’t wait till next year. This was an awesome night!!
This is my 4th MP3 Experiment and they just keep getting better and better!! I brought several ‘virgins’ this year and they are hooked!
Thank you Improv, River to River, the residents of River Terrace and World Financial Center!!! Thanks to the Agents who stuck around for clean up duty.
I’m so happy I wasn’t the only one who forgot a camera and decided to buy a one-time use one. It’ll be interesting to develop them and see what I got! Flashlight limbo? That’ll be a camping trip classic! And it never ceases to amaze me the creativity of fellow Agents…some masks were awesome!!! I cannot wait to see what’s in store next year.
@Charlie – were there any Agent(s) taking pictures/video from NJ side Hudson? It must have been beautiful…wonder what the condo owners on the other side were thinking!?!
We didn’t have anyone in NJ. Maybe we’ll get lucky and some random person will send us some!
That was a blast fellow tribe-mates, Improv casues another scene!
To all those at Gee Whiz diner afterwards…I *bow* to greet thee…
Best Night of My Life since I went to DisneyWorld in The 4th Grade!! After having an Awesome time in battery park w/ the other tribes..(BLACK SHIRTS RULE!!) Someone had a Suitcase Boombox Ipod dock thingy, lol idk what it was but thats how it looked, anywhoo a whole bunch of agents was following him to the train station..including my group…and we had a wicked rave party on the streets and in the R train until 14th street. We were dancing and singing along w/ the music and all in all it really made this a really good night for me. I saw alot of people taking videos and pics so I wonder if those’ll be on youtube anytime soon 8D Thanks For The Fun Agent Todd *salutes*
I joined four other white shirts in a big slow dance. We all joined elbow-hands and tried to sway to the music but it’s hard with five people who are each hearing different music. We were supposed to partner up and dance as couples, but all the black shirts were paired up already. So, we improvised!
This is my second time attending an Mp3 experiment and I enjoyed this event a lot! Before the event started, we walked by lady with her kids and she asked me that if there was something going on, and why were a lot people wearing white tees. I answered her with the classic response: I don’t know, it was just coincidence that we happen to be wearing the same color tee. With a smile of course. She was so confused but happy at the same time. lol
I biked in after work. I had a lot of time to kill so I surveyed the total area. Sorry Charlie I was the guy on the bike who went “HAA!” Just seeing you there planing everything out this those parks dept. folks just made me too excited. I was a white shirt so I grabbed a dirty water dog and headed out onto the pier. Sunset was Amazing! All the time the pier was filling with white shirts, just before showtime it was crazy!! There was a solid line of white from Rockefeller park to the pier, WOW!! I’m gonna guesstimate 8,000 total showed up. Thanks for the memories!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28346433@N00/sets/72157627095225675/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ITqDMCDDs
lol found the vid of the funky train ride party!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfO6forzHfs
I had such an amazing time, it was so so much fun, but a lot of us black shirts were confused, when we googled battery park, we were sent over by castle clinton, which resulted in a 20 minute walk to the neutral zone -_-, so we missed everything from the arm tunnel to a little bit after the lightsaber fight, there had to be over a hundred of us that started in the wrong place….damn you google maps! anyway, we got to be there for the light up things and glow sticks and whatnot so all in all it was an incredible experience! thanks IE
I can’t figure out how you guys made that mistake. There was a map showing your starting zone on the site, and at no point did we ever say anything about Battery Park. I guess people don’t know the difference between Battery Park and Battery Park City. But there was a Google Map on the download page! You shouldn’t have had to Google anything.
hah i know, it wasnt your guys fault! i said there were a lot of confused people ..it was definitely our bad hahaha