When Grand Central Stood Still
A strange sight at Grand Central. A couple of hundred people, indistinguishable from the 500,000 commuters who pass through the midtown station each day, suddenly freeze. They were part of an improv group which has put on this public event before, but never in such a theatrical space. A cop was asked what was going on: "I have no idea! That is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen in my life, and I'm a cop!" (Click play to start the clip.)
When Grand Central Stood Still
(thank you hilary)
Awesome!
Posted by:Carla | February 03, 2008 at 10:35 PM
That was great! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by:janne | February 04, 2008 at 04:09 AM
That's so cool. I love Improv Everywhere.
Posted by:Jul | February 04, 2008 at 09:28 AM
WOW, WOW, WOW. I pass through GC twice daily. I think if I had been there when this was going on, I would have been afraid. (Too many zombie movies, maybe...)
Posted by:Anna @ D16 | February 04, 2008 at 09:34 AM
Love that! Reminds me of the long-exposure photo my brother took of me and his girlfriend at Grand Central. We looked like happy statues while everyone else was a blur. Love the spontaneous applause at the end!
Posted by:Jennifer | February 04, 2008 at 09:56 AM
It is too good concept to shock every body
Posted by:Maneesh | February 04, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Yeah I saw this last year. It was so neat, and impressive, and really just such a commentary on our "Busyness". I loved that the little kids turned back to look at him.
Posted by:bombaygirl | February 04, 2008 at 06:12 PM
sorry...commented on the wrong video! This was neat!
Posted by:bombaygirl | February 04, 2008 at 06:15 PM
Awesome!! I loved it!
Posted by:marilyn | February 05, 2008 at 02:13 PM
wow. LOVED this!
Posted by:Andrea | February 06, 2008 at 02:27 AM
amazing idea and just really looked stunning if only they'd do it in London
Posted by:Tom Love | February 06, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Oh my god! thanks for sharing this....that poor guy with the cart =( ....so funny though (I wonder how long they did it...if that was in real time)
- Jessie -
Posted by:Jessie Cacciola | February 06, 2008 at 11:54 AM
brilliantly wacky
poor people
glad they didn't really freak out
Posted by:chrisfizik | February 06, 2008 at 10:00 PM
That was great! great!great!great!great!
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by:Yuktikka | February 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Thats hella cool!
Posted by:JoblessPunk | February 12, 2008 at 05:28 PM
That was just simply great.
Posted by:Woohzal | February 14, 2008 at 07:38 AM
Hopefully no one got pickpocketed while they were still.
Posted by:MarkL | February 17, 2008 at 05:58 PM
I think the people in GS are like that all the time. They only start to move when someone new walks in.
When I was in NYC I did not go to GS, so they may have been frozen for 4 days.
Posted by:mickb | February 19, 2008 at 03:28 PM
Ok. This just totally kicked!!! Called the wife in to check it out....then everyone clapped. That shows the impact it had!!!
Posted by:MikeyP | March 05, 2008 at 09:23 PM
I believe this group is Improv Everywhere, they do tons of stuff like this. Check out their Best Buy one.
Posted by:Alec | March 18, 2008 at 11:10 PM
This is pretty awesome, we did the same thing at UC Berkeley a month back, I don't know if the idea was based on this video or not because I hear it happens every year, but it was pretty cool, I did a pose of just about to trow away a newspaper as i picked up my cup of coffee to drink,
Posted by:Sprawl | April 12, 2008 at 06:39 PM
haha, I participated in something like this once. At the exact same moment, everyone dropped to the ground and curled up in a ball. it was really really fun and crazy.
Posted by:jenn | April 22, 2008 at 09:17 PM
awesome!!!
Posted by:micky | July 01, 2008 at 03:01 PM