Thatch
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Idea #1
Title: “Teach the World to Sing”
Place: Balboa Park @ the Fountain on El Prado
What to Wear: A plain t-shirt in a rainbow color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
What to Do: At the designated time, agents will begin inconspicuously gathering around the fountain. Once all agents are in place, someone gives the signal for a circle to form. A second signal tells everyone to hold hands. A third signal and everyone will begin singing the words to “I’d like to Teach the World to Sing”.
Misc. Details: Depending on how many people show up will determine the size of the ring made around the fountain. Less people and a smaller ring can be done (I believe they will still let you climb into the fountain), or more people can be around the perimeter, etc. The park often has events scheduled that draw large crowds so there is the potential to have this happen in front of a lot of unsuspecting visitors/tourists if we time it right.
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Idea #2
Title: “FAO Schwartz Junk Band”
Place: FAO Schwartz Toy Store in Horton Plaza
What to Wear: Everyday street clothes.
What to Do: Everyone finds an interesting sounding toy and we meet up at a place and form a junk band. Play one song “spontaneously” and then leave.
Misc. Details: Song could be planned ahead of time, or done on the spot to add to the spontaneity.
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Idea #3
Title: “Breaking Up”
Place: Tiffany’s Jewelry Store in Horton Plaza
What to Wear: Everyday street clothes.
What to Do: A few couples are “planted” throughout the store. One couple begins to fight and loudly announces that the engagement is off they immediately storm out of the store. Another couple asks what they were fighting about and starts arguing about the same thing and also breaks up and storms out. A third couple does the same thing.
Misc. Details: One or two other agents would need to be in store pretending to “window shop” in order to record reactions of other patrons and staff.
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Idea #4
Title: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game Interpretive Dance”
Place: Petco Park @ 7th inning stretch on the main grass area (Park passes are pretty cheap).
What to Wear: Black pants, black shirt, black shoes (shirts could be hidden under jackets until the right moment so a bunch of people wearing all black is not obvious).
What to Do: When everyone is singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, Agents can be uniformly dancing a modern, interpretive dance routine.
Misc. Details: If somebody “anonymously” tipped off the cameras ahead of time, I bet it could be displayed on the jumbo-tron. Anyone know someone who runs one of the cameras?
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Idea #5
Title: “The Rodeo”
Place: Balboa Park Carousel
What to Wear: The most authentic cowboy/girl outfit you can muster up. A cowboy hat is a must. Bandanas, big belt buckles, cowboy boots and spurs are all a +.
What to Do: Everyone will get in line at the same time so that we take over one whole round of the carousel. During the carousel run, each person will act like they are on a real “bucking bronco” making thrashing movements and loud cat calls to their horse.
Misc. Details: At the very least, we would need enough people to take over all of the horses on the outside of the carousel so that only “agents” are visible on the horses to any spectators. Agents could pause their silliness only long enough to try to grab a ring, and then go right back to the rodeo production. This might be funny because it will be switching between characters fast on each go-round (straight faced-grab ring, quick rodeo thrashing action, straight faced-grab ring, quick rodeo thrashing action, etc.).
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