Making scenes in the Southwest
We’re making some tweaks to our blog feed to allow us to syndicate video and audio files, and let people subscribe to them in iTunes. This is primarily getting us set up for the mp3 Experiment we have coming up (details soooooon!), but will also let us share cool tidbits directly.
So if you ever wished that this blog could assail your senses in more than just a textual format – this day is momentous for you! Savor it!
It’s hard to believe that Improv AZ has only been going since January! We’re pretty happy with everything that’s happened so far, and are excited for our upcoming events. However, we’re making a change to how we notify people about upcoming events.
As we move forward, we will continue to have our big flash mob events and will advertising these events on Facebook. We’re also going to start doing more specialized events, where we may need people with specific skills or where we just don’t want everyone on Facebook to hear. We are going to only promote these via a private email list.
If you haven’t signed up for our list and you want to be in the loop on these secret events, sign up on our website in the “Mailing List” box on the right side, or on this page.
In other news, we could really use a few people who can help us with some discrete video work. We need people who can shoot some of our upcoming pranks without being obvious that you’re filming. If this is you, we want to hear from you.
The Arizona Diamondbacks had their last home game of the season on Sunday, September 27th, and Improv AZ decided to joyfully celebrate with the fans. With the weather starting to cool down, it seems liked a good reason to bring the Improv AZ group together. We decided to throw a Silent Rave.
It was a sunny and sticky Sunday afternoon when I met with our new videographer. This event was a last-minute idea, so I had not scouted the area in advance. We scoured the courtyard and found a suitable open area for dancing next to Sliders restaurant. It was an appropriate area for gleeful gyrations.
And then we waited. I saw a few familiar faces with anticipatory smiles from past events amongst the sea of red-shirted Diamondbacks fans.
At 12:45 our group of approximately fifteen people spontaneously started to dance. We received a number of bewildered looks from Diamondbacks fans, some who stopped to take pictures. Apparently the host at Sliders encouraged our tomfoolery over the loudspeaker. I couldn’t hear him because we were having so much fun. Although our event was a silent rave, we had the music of Sliders to dance to; however I don’t think it had a negative impact on the absurdity of the event.
At 12:47, the alarm on my phone went off. I gave the ending signal and we dispersed. Some of us headed into the game and the rest disappeared into the surrounding crowd.
There are some good pictures from the event on Flickr. We were working with a new videographer for this event. I’m hoping the footage will be up soon. If you were there and have photos or video from the event, please post them with the tags ImprovAZ and SilentRave.