Performance "artist" Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere, which carries the slogan "We Cause Scenes," is famous for those "freeze crowds," where a group of participators suddenly freeze for a minute or two in a public place while everybody around them wonders what's going on. It's the new flash mob and, like its Internet-organized cousin, will grow tiresome very quickly. But alas, here we are plugging Todd's latest antics, at a Taco Bell opening in Flushing.
Our favorite audience member? This fella: "I think we should probably cut this guy. 'Cause this guy isn't moving."
Except at the end of the video, you'll notice a corporate plug: Head in to any participating Taco Bell for a free Frutista Freeze. Get it? Freeze? Is this evidence that Todd, who pulled off the very entertaining Grand Central Terminal freeze, has finally sold his art to corporate?
