freeze events

Who knew freezing in place for 5 minutes could be that cool?

I posted a few weeks ago the video from Improv Everywhere where they went to Grand Central Station and froze in place for 5 minutes during the busy part of the day. I was reading their web-site today and saw that it was such a huge hit, people everywhere have been doing their own version (good idea Nadia, I guess a lot of people had the same idea). The web-site said it was in 32 cities and 17 countries that these events have happened. You can see some of the videos from the other places at this link.

I'd like to throw a shout out to Bloomington, Minnesota (my home town) for doing an event. They did it at the Ikea store - gotta love that. I love that state and this is one more confirmation of why. They only had 24 people do it with them so the affect wasn't as much, but it's still pretty good. They even get busted by the store manager at the end for taking video in his store - he's pretty nice, but I still thought that was funny. The Chicago one was interesting as well - they did it at the Apple Store (I've been there - woohoo). They did a slow motion first, then freeze. There are a lot of people there so it's kind of hard to tell at first, but when they freeze, it's pretty good. They froze in some pretty creative poses. Maybe it's time we get Ann Arbor, Michigan on that list...