kuranes
31 Mar 2007, 05:23 AM
Do you know of any "unusual teams" ?
Every once in a while I'll read about a group that's doing things together that are totally cool, and i'll think "I wish that these people were near me. I would want to join them." In one case, I did do so.
For example, there's this team of guys who improvise how they can do nutty things as a group. For example, they all got hold of clothes that fit them, and which resembled the "uniform" of Best Buy people in NYC. I think it was a blue "sports shirt" ( why do people call shirts that ? How do "sports" figure in to the look ? ) and a pair of tan khakis. One by one the improvisers slowly filtered in to the Best Buy they had selected. Soon there were about 30 of them spread out in the store. They would help customers out if asked, but never actually said they worked there. They would also leave if asked, so that they could not legally be accused of "trespassing", which led to many interesting confrontations where security people were doing everything BUT asking them to leave. The video is funny. ( I posted it on another thread. I'll look for it. No one noticed it at the time because I didn't make it the subject of its own thread. )
Another team is called "Survival Research Labs", and they make automatons which can do damage, using surplus military equipment. Then they have these robots fight each other in big public arenas. It will sometimes get broken up by the authorities even though they've often secured permission.
The old website used to be www.srl.org. I talked to the founder once. Interesting guy.
Many cities have "urban exploration" teams where you go out on weekends and explore abandoned places, like factories and mental hospitals etc. I was with one of these in Chicago, but....that's another story.
Every once in a while I'll read about a group that's doing things together that are totally cool, and i'll think "I wish that these people were near me. I would want to join them." In one case, I did do so.
For example, there's this team of guys who improvise how they can do nutty things as a group. For example, they all got hold of clothes that fit them, and which resembled the "uniform" of Best Buy people in NYC. I think it was a blue "sports shirt" ( why do people call shirts that ? How do "sports" figure in to the look ? ) and a pair of tan khakis. One by one the improvisers slowly filtered in to the Best Buy they had selected. Soon there were about 30 of them spread out in the store. They would help customers out if asked, but never actually said they worked there. They would also leave if asked, so that they could not legally be accused of "trespassing", which led to many interesting confrontations where security people were doing everything BUT asking them to leave. The video is funny. ( I posted it on another thread. I'll look for it. No one noticed it at the time because I didn't make it the subject of its own thread. )
Another team is called "Survival Research Labs", and they make automatons which can do damage, using surplus military equipment. Then they have these robots fight each other in big public arenas. It will sometimes get broken up by the authorities even though they've often secured permission.
The old website used to be www.srl.org. I talked to the founder once. Interesting guy.
Many cities have "urban exploration" teams where you go out on weekends and explore abandoned places, like factories and mental hospitals etc. I was with one of these in Chicago, but....that's another story.