This evening, I’ve succeeded in finding several unsuccessful
activities. And by this evening, I
mean at 1 in the morning, and by several unsuccessful activities, I mean:
- Parkour does not work when it’s slick and wet
- Backflip bicycle kicks are bad for my health, as I should have already learned from faceplanting in front of a few thousand people last year
- And sadly, two rolls of standard gorilla tape is not enough to go rappelling with…
But, somehow, we must press on with our insanity. After a long string of failed crazy
plans and unsuccessful invitations, I am changing tactics. Rather than trying to plot everything
on my own and then rope accomplices into things, I’m going for a networked
version of plotting, with open invitations for anyone up to the task. Any ideas go, and anyone can come
along, if they can keep up!
To start things off, I’m compiling some of my biggest
unachieved adventure brain children that I’ve come up with the past year:
-Camping on a rooftop.
I have a tent, and at least three feasible locations.
Numbers- 2-4 people
Time frame- 1 night.
-Leaving trails of treasure maps, clues, and random notes
throughout books in Fondren library.
See how long it takes people to find different ones.
Numbers: the more the merrier!
Time frame- Anywhere from an afternoon to an entire
semester. There is no limit!
-Get onto the lit part of the rainbow building. One plan involves acquiring faculty
sponsorship for a psyc survey on agoraphobia to get permission to go up. Another is to simply get permission to
take a film team up there as part of a student made documentary of campus.
Numbers- As many people as wanted to be survey
subjects/”film crew”.
Time frame- Depending on the project, a few days worth of
organizing, request letters, and an afternoon to go up.
-Busking tour of the USA. Taking a group of people to observe and participate in
street performance culture in some of the America’s top busking cities: New
Orleans, Boston, New York, and Chicago.
The trip would document street performers in each city, develop and
perform a variety of acts in each location, and keep a running blog and video
of the whole process.
Numbers: My car holds 5 people.
Time frame: hehe.
This one is going to take a lot.
I have an outline of the whole process, but it would still take weeks of
planning pulling together details, grants, and any other funding. Then the trip itself would be about 4
weeks total with driving time and time spent in each city. (Also, depending on the talent pool, it
could take a fair amount of time rehearsing/acquiring skills for various
performances)
-Creating storage compartments inside old textbooks and
leaving them in various places on campus for people to discover hidden messages
inside.
Numbers: just a few people. Mostly needs ideas for messages, and old books.
Time frame: a few hours, plus as much message restocking as
desired.
-Going without something normally taken for granted. This could include shoes, rooms, 1st
World food, beds, etc…
Numbers: the more people involved, the more people will
notice and think.
Time frame: A day, a week, who knows?
-Ride MS-150… on a unicycle.
Numbers: Anyone who’s totally crazy and wants to spend a lot
of time training with me. Also, a
support crew would be awesome.
Time frame: I’m guessing training for this one will be
killer. 3 hours a day starting a
month in advance, and building up, methinks.
-The Impact of Travel on Novel Writing. Requires getting a fellowship to travel
Europe or another location of choice (preferably with mountains) for up to a
month while creating a novel.
Numbers: a travelling companion would be awesome.
Time frame: Redrafting the old proposal, submitting it to a
number of Rice fellowships for consideration, plus travel time in the summer.
-Build a sock monkey catapult. ‘Nuff said.
Numbers: anyone who thinks this would be fun. And all their sock monkeys.
Time frame: Until flaming sock monkeys seems like a better
idea.
-Crashing a Rice campus tour of prospective students with
full costumes, scripts, and/or any other random entertainment
Numbers: 2 means a dialogue. 20 means a flashmob.
Time frame:Planning time and as many excecutions as
manageable. (Not actually
executing prospies though. Not
till I get Spanish Inquisition robes and raid random people’s conversations)
-Dress as Robin Hood and his Merry Men and chill out on
Robinhood street
Numbers: The more the, well, merrier…
Time frame: one afternoon
More items include:
Costumes in the Galleria
Interpretive Dance in public
Elevator projects
Duct tape someone to a wall
Camping on 6th floor Fondren
Leave comments or email if you’re interested in any of these
projects. And start throwing more
ideas into the mix. Adventure is
out there!
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