May 15 2007 I posted on the kinesthetic sculpture that definitely inspired this:

My friend Will's started a "my influences" blog, which I suppose is what this one often is. It's http://eyday.blogspot.com/ and amusing, clever, minimalist and much more visually appealing than this one (enough with the Canadian self-deprecation already). This video appealed to me greatly:

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I don’t have a good excuse for including here a post about organic farming and microcommunities, but there you go, it’s my damn blog and I’ll post what I want. Here’s a link: meat goes in the body, makes the body go, where’s the meat come from? And: Where do you go when you want to move in a natural environment? What’s the ethical use of public space? Food production?
NY Times article about young urban farmers.
Blog about food.

One of my favourite Improv Everywhere skits/experiments/missions is the mobius.

One of the ways DV8 reaches a broader audience is by using humour. In perusing a questionable but amusing humour blog I encountered a sort-of terrible comedian (because saying you like this comedian is discouraged). This comedian uses a lot of physicality, in an almost analytical way ("When she's going to commit brain terrorism on you, she will stand like this"). It makes me wonder whether he, like Lloyd Newson (DV8 choreographer), studied psychology.

On the thread of Public Space/Unwitting Audiences/Loving Toronto, I thought I'd profile, in his own words, the fabulous Misha Glouberman. He's been profiled in two of my favourite places to find Toronto cultural events: The Red Letter from Girl Can Create, as well as the newsletter from The Theatre Centre. His own words put it real nice:

From Misha Glouberman:

I host and run the Trampoline Hall Lectures. I have taught many classes, largely on unuseful subjects, to many people. I claim to be Canada's foremost Charades instructor, a claim which goes unchallenged. I have recently taught classes in John Zorn's game piece Cobra, and presesented an all-night series of participatory vocal improvisations at Nuit Blanche.

Toronto has a decent public-space community. I credit: public space committee, Spacing magazine (who incidentally had a short article about IE in Toronto), and others like Matt's amazing photoblog which give shape to the way this city keeps together in all its ways.

Newmindspace has done things like big bubble fight and has by far the prettiest website. Toronto projects are not well-evidenced on the ImprovEverywhere networking page for Toronto.

I got to take part in Run the ROM (see below) with the Movement Movement. They will be part of an exhibition at the Toronto Free Gallery on creative activism. Interesting to see that there was a call for submissions--I would love to have a more organized way of being sure to hear about such calls--anyone?

Very delighted to learn of Improv Everywhere, NYC-based large-scale performance, often spontaneous, often with audio mp3 (everyone synchronizes tracks and listens to instructions). Best is Grand Central Station freeze, the mp3 tracks
Three: four seasons join up for face-off in Central Park and Steve-worship.

MP3 Four was at a NYC park and had the sort of assemblage I think fondly of as belonging to the Coca-Cola commercial where (in Italy?) they make a helicopter-viewable bottle of Coke pour into a glass.
The DIY page leaves something to be desired, I'm not even sure which prank it's for, but involves renting a theatre. And the document(s) to download aren't there. Yaay Error 404.
Unfortunately, the redheads protest Wendy's was pretty lame, and this coming from a redhead.

50 redheads on a subway car was better--especially with the sunscreen stunt. I often feel a bit performative whenever I share space with more than three other redheads, and it happens unexpectedly from time to time. More than 15 years ago with Richard Read-Parry and Evelyn we were 5 redheads at summer camp and did a skit.
Shirtless at Abercrombie & Fitch amusing.
A fellow named Justin Beach apparently started the Toronto chapter, but from the look of things, there were two freeze pranks in close succession, with too many participants and too much coverage (??), so I don't know what the state of the Toronto chapter is. The CBC report is a bit patronizing, and maybe the 'tude wasn't quite right. Too bad.
Trafalgar Square in London's freeze.

I just posted an actual profile, and pic, and realize that I have very little about DV8 here. So I thought I'd start with some pics.

This makes me think much of Michel Gondry's word-based vids and led me to jonas/françois work, funfun for to French.