EGAD
or, (de)mythologizing the fetish of placewherein our unlikely hero composes a series of
empirical geo-anthrospatial dispatches, aimed at establishing just where
he is, and perhaps even why it matters
The always-intriguing This American Life managed to be particularly awesome this weekend in an episode that dwelled heavily upon the antics and consequences of New York-based Improv Everywhere. This is a group that considers life their stage, and with that motto takes the art of the mind game to a high point of absurdist refinement.
I am massively tickled by the idea of putting a Starbucks into a time loop. Even more so because it took most people three or four repetitions to notice.
Posted by Milligan at March 30, 2006 08:13 AM | TrackBackI dunno. That SB thing was creepy. If I had been in there while this was happening, it may have just pushed me over the top!
(Tho this is an interesting concept for my oral diss defense...Think anyone would notice if I ust kept presenting the same 10 minute segment over and over? LOL)
Posted by: Yvette at March 30, 2006 09:45 AM (Permalink)Read the performers' reports at the bottom of the time loop post. Based on the conversations they overhead, several people seem to have been deeply disturbed, while others regarded it as a delightful game -- once they noticed -- to work out which people were part of the loop. As they pointed out, given the pace of life in your typical non-campus Starbucks, where there's no ebb and flow of classes to impose a rhythm, lots of people wind up looking like they're in a loop just because they're not really visibly doing anything.
You might want to test this approach in a seminar or something before relying on it for a defense, though. Just a thought.
Posted by: Milligan at March 30, 2006 07:25 PM (Permalink)