More links?!

This post is intended to plug a very awesome website. I discovered this last night while researching Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day (which came up when I was reading webcomics).

The aforementioned site is Improv Everywhere, a sort of social experimentation group that goes around (mostly NYC) breaking social norms.

I really enjoyed their Mobius loop project, which involved several members of the group repeating the same sequence of actions over and over again at a local Starbucks to simulate a recycling pocket of time.

Another one of the projects I love is the MP3 Experiment, which involves many strangers from the internet downloading the same mp3 and showing up at a predetermined location. Everybody starts listening on their music players at the same time. The mp3 then goes through a set of directions and guides the participants through various actions. It's all very interesting, especially when viewed by video.

Things Quail likes:

• People in large groups acting in unison (it just seems so overwhelmingly forceful and majestic somehow)
• Random strangers meeting up and banding together due to a common interest
• Videos of people doing silly, silly things.
• Silly, silly things.

Also, I am afraid I am 11 minutes late to this post.