Charlie Todd Freezes Taco Bell- 06.26.08
I’m mixed on how to feel ~ so watch it and share your opinions. Improv Everywhere ~ they get large groups together and go… take off their shirts in Abercrombie, carry DESKTOPS into Starbucks, wear blue shirts into Best Buy, and even froze time at Grand Central Station (embedded on next page in case you’ve missed it!)… and NOW… Taco Bell loved the concept so much, they hired Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere to pull off the latest prank at the grand opening of the Taco Bell in Flushing. It’s hilarious watching the reactions of the people (video on next page!) - and a bit sad to watch that being frozen for a few seconds, there are people who are already poking at you, eating your food, and cutting you in line! So… thoughts? I think its great to see guys like Charlie getting paid to do what they are already doing so well! And great exposure to share the fun with people who may not be up on their internet memes… and nice to have some entertaining adverts… but i’m not sure, how do you guys feel about these corporate virals?
Here’s when Grand Central got frozen!
It is interesting how easily people can qualify this kind of thing as ‘just a bit of paid work’. I think the argument about working for the man to stick it to the man is itself kind of bankrupt and symptomatic of how ‘not much is really sacred’. Not that i am shocked by people selling out, it has become a somewhat staple exercise for anyone who gets big enough to do so, no matter how counter-cultural, anti-corporate or subversive they appear.
On a different but associated note, another way in which it occurs to me that we have become so morally bereft is how little we hear a well constructed expletive these days, a la Henry Miller, I guess because it is so easy to find a cocksucker who is willing to sell their mother down the stream for their moment in the spotlight or their bit of property on the coast and that it is not worth the social lynching that you get for it.
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