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The photographers from the MP3 Experiment have posted their pictures to flickr. Check the pics out at: (if you find me in one of them, let me know. There’s soooo many!)

http://flickr.com/search/?q=mp3experimentiii

I had plans for a whole bunch of people to join me for the MP3 Experiment today, but most people couldn’t make it due to previous engagements. The one person who was actually going to go with me had an emergency and couldn’t make it last minute. Instead of throwing away the whole day, I decided to trek into the city on my own.

I stared at Fantasma Toys, a Magic Shop near Madison Square Garden where I bought tickets to check out Darwin Ortiz, a card-shark/card magician who will be giving a lecture to other magicians and students of card-handling. It should be interesting. I’m looking foward to it.

I got to the MP3 Experiment about a half hour early. I had a blast there (read my previous post) then headed out to my next venue, a comedy and magic show in SoHo.

I took the subway, and found that the line I was on would not stop at the closest stop by the show. I got off at the last stop before flying past my destination, and realized I had come up on West 4th street, not too far from Mamoun’s, a small Falafel place I was introduced to a while back. I grabbed a Lamb Shwarma and a coke and headed for the SoHo Playhouse to watch Simon Lovell.

Simon Lovell is a magician/con man who specializes in card manipulations and magic in a small stage show called “Strange and Unusual Hobbies“. The show was great, with Simon Lovell showing off some of his gambling/card shark secrets and showing a bit of magic as well. I even got to participate in a few tricks. It was a lot of fun, and an entertaining.

I’m glad that I went into the city alone, even though I had to fend for myself, I got a lot done, probably more than if I had been there with other people. It was a blast!!!

I finally got to head into the city for one of Improv Everywhere’s scenes. I took place in the third MP3 Experiment, The search for Steve.

I arrived on location about a half hour early. There were maybe 10 to 20 people or so sitting around, just relaxing on the lawn. As the time got closer to 3:00, people started to flow in, a few at a time. 30…50…100.. soon there were easily between 150 and 200 people at my location, and keep in mind, there were 4 starting points for the experiment.

3:00 rolled around and we were given a countdown to start our iPods, iRivers, Creative Zens, CD Players, or in my case, my Dell AXIM PDA. The CD was filled throughout the event with upbeat music and the narrations of our leader, Snowflake. No, not a homosexuality reference, or even just a bad nickname. Snowflake was just that, a 7 foot tall (same in width) white snowflake. He was our leader in finding “Steve”, the omnipient being who would come down to earth if we all willed it!

So we followed along with steve, playing a game of Snowflake Says (i.e. Simon Says). Picture it… 200 people, playing Simon Says in the park, with others looking on, only they can’t hear the direction of “Snowflake”. Must have looked odd to everyone else, but not as odd as what will happen next.

The search for Steve is off as we are instructed to line up, single file in a line with the shortest people at the front and the tallest in the back… Not the easiest task, but we managed fairly well, as we followed Snowflake through the trails in Central Park. The looks on people’s faces as a parade of 200 people paraded through the areas where they were lounging, picnicing, playing ball, frizbee, etc… Single file, people getting taller and taller… Some people even ran up to us asking what was going on.

The parade ended with all 4 groups meeting up in a central location by the waterside. There had to be close to, if not more than 1000 people all together. All with MP3 players and CD Players… We were instructed to dance various dances that we discussed earlier on… Picture 1000 people dancing in the middle of Central Park, with no music (that you can hear). That is exactly what a good number of onlookers saw…

Simultaneously, we all called out “STEVE!!!!” and from the waterside was a person with a long beard, smoke bellowing from his sleeves. To us he was presented as Steve, but nobody outside of our group could possibly have ANY clue what was going on. Or what was to come…

Just as we had Snowflake, other groups had Rain Drop, Clouds, and Sun Shine. We all formed a HUGE circle as the leaders fought in mortal kombat to find which season would reign as the winner. We were instructed to cheer for our leader as they all fought, hitting, kicking, and bumping into eachother. “Go Snowflake!! Go Sun!!! Go Raindrop!!! Go Cloud!!” was all an onlooker would have heard as the four seasons personified went at it with eachother.

Unfortunately, We didn’t win.. Sunshine won, but we tried, so to cellebrate, we all formed a konga-line (what could ver well have been a quarter-of-a-mile konga-line, maybe longer.) After walking for at least 3 minutes, I looked back and saw the line going on and on, and at the very end (beginning) was a crowd that still hadn’t even joined onto the line.

It was incredibly wacky and a whole lot of fun. Everybody there had a blast and got along great! Want to read more, see pics, watch videos, and even join in next time, check out the Improv Everywhere web site.

So, I got this pair of pajama pants and they fit ok, but they’re a bit big, especially in the pee-pee hole… I kept falling out of them, so I grabbed the sewing kit and sewed a button on! It worked! I even cut and reinforced the hole with more thread…

I can cook, clean and now, sew! I am such a housewife! lol

I check my messages this morning and I have this message…

“Hello. This is Mary from [some company I coulnd’t understand]. You have won a cruise for 2 from an entry you or someone in your family filled in at one of our locations. The cruise leaves from Ft Lauderdale and will go to The Bahamas. Included are 2 round trip tickers from your home to Ft Lauderdate. The confirmation number is B138973 [not the actual confirmation] and the toll free num”

Thats it. It cuts off just before the toll free number.

Funny thing is, the voicemail service I use will allow a 10 minute message if they keep talking.. so they actually hung up before giving me the number..

I say, it’s either 1. A very stupid scammer, or 2. Just my luck! 🙂