Clowning-on-the-street

After our visit to Vistaar where the SAP (Society for Artists and Performers) troupe were taking workshops for some of the Srishti students, we were pretty excited with our plans. The SAP artistes - Adil, Bidya, Fengel, Beatrice and Vishnu were going to use Clowning to get people to send their thoughts and reactions via SMS to the StandingOnFish blog!

Our setup involved a laptop connected to the internet, a large 24" monitor, a whiteboard and a large mobile mock-up. The idea was to have people send in SMSs to our SOF blog where it would be posted instantly. This would be projected on the monitor via the laptop and Mesha would write it on the whiteboard.

Why? So that the people could see how the clowns would react to their instantly published SMS messages.

It worked magically. Once the crowd got into the act, and figured the trick to get some crazy reactions from the clowns, SMS were flying around. You can have a look at all the SMS posts that people sent to us at www.standingonfish.spaces.live.com You can also send us posts by following the instructions under How? in the right column >>

And the cool part is that this Sunday we added got a nice little feature with the SMSBlogging system that sends out the previous 2 SMS posts if you post up one…that way you get to read other people’s thoughts when you send out yours :)


The SAP guys were Terrific! Amazing! Super! Thanks a million times!:
Adil Hussain
Beatrice Ordex
Fingal Pollock
Jogiraj Chakrabrti
Vidyavati Phukan

Thanks to some of SOF friends who showed up:
Meera Naidu
Nirali Lal
Sandeep
Dawood
Anand Bora
Indrani
Sumit
Krishna Mehra
Prasad – Video
Udai - Photos

A very special thanks to my family for coming out and being part of the fun: Mom, Dad, Arathi, Sridhar, Abhay and Antara