{"id":530,"date":"2012-04-06T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edublog.me\/shapingmedia\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-04-15T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T17:14:29","slug":"improv-everywhere-frozen-grand-central-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/shapingmedia\/2012\/04\/06\/improv-everywhere-frozen-grand-central-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Everywhere: Frozen Grand Central Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

For inspiration: Frozen Grand Central Station, a flashmob intervention by “Improv Everywhere”. <\/a><\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

There’s already a hint on ‘blind spots’ of specific media:
\n“Another thing we learned at the Home Depot mission is that it\u2019s really tough to convey this idea through photographs. Everyone is frozen in place in a photo.”<\/em>
\n\u2013 Charlie Todd (2008), founder of “Improv Everywhere”<\/a><\/p>\n

We don’t expect a photograph to move – do we?<\/p>\n

Culture is a medium, and a medium, as any other media, will become ‘visible’ if it stops working. So, what if nearly everybody else starts acting… strange? As Voltaire stated:
\n“Madness we call the illness of the brain, that keeps a man necessarily from thinking and acting like the others.”<\/em>
\n\u2013 Voltaire quoted in Foucault (1977), \u201eWahnsinn und Gesellschaft\u201c, S.176, translation by Tan
\n“The others” – these are today encountered in new media.<\/p>\n

“If there’s nothing wrong with me… maybe there’s something wrong with the universe!”<\/em>
\n\u2013 Dr. Crusher (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Remember Me”)<\/p>\n

Another nice intervention of Improv Everywhere, this time decisively dealing with a social blind spot. In the expensive vacational area of Aspen, Colorado, there are only 0.44% afroamericans…<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VyRwrrggxok[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

http:\/\/improveverywhere.com\/2012\/02\/06\/meet-a-black-person\/<\/a><\/p>\n


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