Duncan Gotobed

An improvised start

 

Improv Everywhere are a long form improvisation troup which executes pre-planned "missions" which involve socially awkward or unusual situations.

 

In one of their most recent missions, Rob Lathan gave out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush hour. Five additional agents spread out along the adjacent stairs, holding signs that prepared commuters for the upcoming high five fun.

 

Enjoy the video here.

Create your own magazine

Heathrow Terminal 1 hosted a unique service courtesy of HSBC Premier. Conceived and developed by Cunning, travellers are invited to edit and create their very own magazine from a choice of 32 specially commissioned articles. Contributing writers range from Elizabeth Hurley to Jamie Oliver to Dougray Scott and Bjorn Borg and Kevin Macdonald.

 

Watch the video here.

 

Wouldn't it be great if learners could assemble their own 'souvenir workbooks', when they are on a course rather than have one produced for them?

Running after one's hat

"And most of the inconveniences that make men swear or women cry are really sentimental or imaginative inconveniences - things altogether of the mind. For instance, we often hear grown-up people complaining of having to hang about a railway station and wait for a train. Did you ever hear a small boy complain of having to hang about a railway station and wait for a train? No; for to him to be inside a railway station is to be inside a cavern of wonder and a palace of poetical pleasures. Because to him the red light and the green light on the signal are like a new sun and a new moon. Because to him when the wooden arm of the signal falls down suddenly, it is as if a great king had thrown down his staff as a signal and started a shrieking tournament of trains. I myself am of little boys' habit in this matter. They also serve who only stand and wait for the two fifteen."

G. K. Chesterton (via russell davies)

Picture: Milan Train Station at Midnight by Stuck in Customs