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Title: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 03, 2008, 08:33:53 PM
I guess no one ever thought of doing something weird in a public place before, and that Improv Everywhere invented the idea of "The Happening", not Allan Kaprow, or Allen Funt for that matter.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/rem-removes-big.html
Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 03, 2008, 08:41:57 PM
What bullshit.  IE is so in my hate pit that I can't even be bothered to type out their name.
Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: yesno on April 03, 2008, 08:49:22 PM
I like how it turns out that they didn't even come up with the very stunt in question.
Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: <<<<< on April 03, 2008, 09:49:24 PM
Sounds Situationist to me, which goes back to what, the Fifties?
Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on April 04, 2008, 12:44:52 AM
What Grote said.  I'm sure there a lot of good people in IE,  and I still appreciate the idea of them, but their "leadership" makes them all sound like smug dumb attention whores.  They remind me of the truth.com people, who I loathe for similar reasons.

I'm not surprised they don't know their street theatre history.  They don't even know what improv is!
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Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: <<<<< on April 04, 2008, 04:39:45 AM
Is the purpose to entertain, or to make a social statement of some sort?  If they're just looking for a laugh, it kind of sounds like just a bunch of hidden camera nonsense.
Title: Re: Improv Everywhere is Weirdly Proprietary
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on April 04, 2008, 08:11:47 AM
My friends and I used to do stuff like that all the time ... Then we became 6th graders.