To get you in the mood for the start of the holiday season, we thought we’d re-post our mission from this time last year, Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce. A 13-member handbell choir provides some unexpected accompaniment for a Salvation Army bell ringer on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
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We’ve created a custom Google Map to show the location of every Improv Everywhere mission to date. The embedded map above shows our New York City missions, but you can zoom out to see a few that took place in other parts of the world. Zoom in and click on each placemark for the date the mission occurred, which serves as a link to the project page/video. Enjoy zooming around and finding old missions from the past nine years!
We limited the map to official missions and did not include touring events at college campuses and international festivals. Those missions have been plotted on a separate map below.
Here’s a bonus video featuring additional material from The Mp3 Experiment Seven that didn’t make it into our main video. The video ends with a time-lapse shot of the Bryant Park section of the event, sped up by a factor of 100.
For our latest mission, over 3,000 participants downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously in retail stores in Midtown Manhattan. The masses converged on Bryant Park where a series of fun activities unfolded, culminating in a huge “mummy dance party.” This was the 7th installment in our Mp3 Experiment series.
Enjoy the video above first, and then go behind the scenes with our photos below. We’d like to thank Bryant Park for generously hosting the second half of the event and all of the stores for putting up with the unauthorized first half.
Here’s a bonus video, containing footage we didn’t have room for in the main video:
A huge thanks to everyone who came out to The Mp3 Experiment Seven today! Around 4,000 people began the experiment in retail stores in the Midtown area and eventually all converged on Bryant Park.
The experiment ended with a massive “toilet paper mummy” dance party, pictured above. If you were there, share your stories in the comments.
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 brand new album!
Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents.
