“Mobile Desktop” is the latest mission from Improv Everywhere where 3 different agents entered a Starbucks in New York and each setup an old desktop computer with giant monitor, using them the same way that they would with a laptop. Here’s the full mission report, including video and photos recorded on hidden cameras.
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Hahah that is great! Surprised they were able to find enough outlets. The Starbucks’ near me have horrible plug placement.
I love the part where she puts that huge CRT + keyboard on her lap.
That is truly inspired — I love the guy who says they are “schlepping” the “server” and wonders if they are saving electricity. The music is brilliant!
Hysterical. Especially the guy speculating on why they’re doing it.
So retro. Cathode Ray monitors, Windows 95 (or was that 98).
;)
That was great, loved the way the music went with the vid.
For some reason, the google ads kept covering up the entire video whenever I tried watching this video on another computer, but it’s working fine now.
not quite the reaction they were looking for…? “Nothing we can do as long as there customers.” However, it was a very funny bit.
Every situation in New York has that one guy complaining.
What’s crazy is I remember just five years ago when my local caffeine dive started offering free wifi, this guy would cart in his cpu, and monitor just like that every week.
HAHA, absolutely hilarious, damn the establishment! Almost up to par with this other prank
http://www.ibeatyou.com/competition/bc80f6/best-prank-call/entry/0f840b/best-prank-call
akkk, my post just vanished … well i don’t have tme to repeat the full analysis, but here’s a shorter version:
this is funny…
but then it hit that this is NOT a very tactical prank, it’s more some pretty “positive” advertising for Starfucks and the stupidity of the corporate wasteland… a kind of Dilbert cartoon that has all the qualities of a fake rebellion.
this is a far tangent, but this mobile desktop gag reminds me of a pretty serious video a friend of mine from the tides foundation sent me awhile back, about consumer waste and a culture with its head up its ass and the corporations that like it that way:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
IE has been doing some pretty funny stuff, but should they have any desire to enter a more radical phase, their approach might need some analysis …and upgrading.