Improv Everywhere stages a fake hypnotism performance complete with audience plants.

From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, a little league baseball game is turned into a major league event. All players, coaches, and parents do not know what is happening. They worked with the league commissioner   more...to get the kids' names and access to the field to setup their equipment the morning of the game. He was the only one in on it. NBC Sports worked with them and got them the jumbotron and the blimp.

This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of their work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.

Background music by Kevin MacLeod.

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If you are interested in getting involved in New York you can sign the NY Agents List on the site. If you are interested in getting involved in your own town, join the global agents forum here: http://improveverywhere.ning.com  less

A flash mob is a very fast mobilization, a gathering of a group of persons, in a public place to create something in particular before scattering/dispersing quickly.
Improv everywhere , a new yorker collective   more...made this term fashionnable again by organizing "freezings", meetings aiming an immobilization in a public place for an instant, to create the impression that time has stopped, frozen.
These freezes happens in New York, London, Brussels, and this wednesday march 19th, in Paris at gare de Lyon.
It was designed to start at 10.42 pm and the freeze supposed to last for 90seconds. Between 200 and 300 persons were expected... watch the result !  less

ImprovEverywhere makes a food court an awful lot more interesting.

From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York.

This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past   more...six years in New York City. Others include the No Pants Subway Ride, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of their work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.

http://www.improveverywhere.com

If you are interested in getting involved in New York you can sign the NY Agents List on the site. If you are interested in getting involved in your own town, join the global agents forum here: http://improveverywhere.ning.com  less