{"id":641,"date":"2008-02-08T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/641"},"modified":"2008-02-08T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:56:35","slug":"watch-this-and-be-a-little-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/641","title":{"rendered":"Watch this and be a little happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flakybiscuit.com\/\">Flaky Biscuit<\/a> blogged about this,   and I watched it,   and it made me grin,   so I&#8217;m blogging about it too. (Is there a word for this? Blogbacking? Leapblogging?)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improveverywhere.com\/\">Improv Everywhere<\/a> group did an impromptu performance at Grand Central Station in NYC.  207 people froze at the same time, for five minutes, then continued on with what they were doing. The video is so much fun to watch. I&#8217;m a big fan of impromptu group activities (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Mass\">Critical Mass<\/a>, por exemplo) and the best part is seeing the reaction of the passers-by. Watch it! Watch it! Watch it!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jwMj3PJDxuo&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This also reminds me of something my friend Meg described: a similar event, but the task being to take headphones and a music player, and dance around to your own music. I would love to do that &#8211; bopping around at the ped mall in Iowa City, near the Bean in Chicago, or &#8230; someplace cool with space in Boston. Boston Commons. Yeah. I like the idea of showing expression, and I LOVE the idea of a bunch of other people doing it at the same time. Like, later in the day, a passer-by might mention that they saw this crazy pink-haired, librarian-looking lady shakin&#8217; it in front of their T stop, and their friend will say &#8220;OMG, I saw the same thing, except it was an Asian teenager headbanging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy over at Flaky Biscuit blogged about this, and I watched it, and it made me grin, so I&#8217;m blogging about it too. (Is there a word for this? Blogbacking? Leapblogging?) The Improv Everywhere group did an impromptu performance at Grand Central Station in NYC. 207 people froze at the same time, for five minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}