Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Mute Button

For our latest Improv Everywhere mission, we did a prank called The Mute Button which was made for a Guggenheim Museum exhibition!
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We had break dancers,
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dog trainers,
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saxophone players,
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preachers,
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kids, and many more people gather in front of a park to make a lot of noise.
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Then, all of a sudden everyone went silent at the same time as if someone pressed a mute button.
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Everyone continued to play music, dance, and talk on the phone but no sound would come out,
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and people's reactions are just so much fun!
Check out the awesome video Matty put together to see the mute button in action!

57 comments:

  1. :') Absolutely brilliant. What great timing!

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  2. I like it! How great!
    Wish they did something like this in Holland once!
    Love, Swaen

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  3. HAHA! Another great one! So funny! :)

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  4. Great idea! The timing was just perfect.

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  5. What a brilliant way to show that everything is connected! Such lovely synchronization. I am in awe!

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  6. I love the stuff you guys come up with! Maybe one day I'll catch something in person!

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  7. This is brilliant! My favorite is the two ladies watching the couple silently arguing :) Their faces were priceless. Haha!

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  8. Hahaha, amazing! I love all the Improv Everywhere videos! I wish I could be there for something like that. :)

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  9. Oh, wow. New York is such a great city.

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  10. It's funny and so creative. I like it!!!:)

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  11. Really amazing! I wish I had seen that in real life, would be so awesome!

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  12. This looks like so much fun! I love it(:!

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  13. So much fun!! How cool to be professional smile-makers. :)

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  14. So funny! I love it. Wished I've been there. Ahhh, it is so cool!! :-D

    http://myowndelirium.blogspot.com/

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  15. absolutely brilliant!

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  16. Amazing and fun! I love flash mobs when they do such incredible things! Thanks for sharing Katie!

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  17. Omg, awesome!
    that's one of my friends with his Doberman! =) how cool!

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  18. Love this Katie! Especially when the saxophone player gets tipped at the end while he is 'on mute'!

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  19. your projects are always SO clever & fun! PROPS!

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  20. haha that's awesome!

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  21. Hehe, that was just amazing. Watched it twice and still can't get enough of it. Your ideas for Improv everywhere are amazing! :D

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  22. Awesome! This made me giggle a lot :)

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  23. Aahhhhhh man, they are soo awesome...

    I want to be like a kid who skipped the whole way through a middle-school boy's race...

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  24. The best part, besides the brilliant actors, is watching everyone's reaction to the mute.

    Bravo!!!

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  25. You have the most GRANDTASTIC blog ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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  26. ohmygosh, this is THE most genius thing ever,
    I seriously adore your blog to pieces
    and this is just grand! You are so lucky to get to be apart of all their fun events!

    Pat Cassells!

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  27. so much fun! Oh how I wish I were there!

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  28. I love your Improve Everywhere videos!
    And this one is amazing! I love seeing people smile in the streets, they're all usually so gloomy ;)

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  29. I love how utterly confused everyone looks! And how the saxophonist got a tip when he wasn't making a sound!

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  30. oh GREAT! You are amazing and so are your projects <3

    x catherine-oneway.blogspot.com

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  31. hahah, amazing. i agree with eleni...love that the sax player still got a tip!

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  32. I love Improv Everywhere. They (you, them, the involved) are creative and at the same time not mean and abusive like so many other little groups. I mean to say they engage the audience not insult and embarrass the audience. I would love to see this type of show in my little artistic hamlet.

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  33. Genial, muy muy divertido, thanks

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  34. Hehe! That's so hilarious and awesome!

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  35. Thank you so much for making me bust out laughing at 6 am! Can't remember the last time I did that.

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  36. wow ...really interesting post

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  37. this has got to be one of my favorite ones so far! :-D

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  38. oh wow, one of my best friends owns the doberman! =)

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  39. oh my god the guy who tipped the saxophone player when he was SILENT! that was genius.

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  40. oh i wish i was there, would be such antiboring day

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