No Pants Subway Ride DC 2015

by Uncustomary | Jan 18, 2015 | Performance

Fourteen years ago, Charlie Todd started a prank with a handful of his college friends where they rode the New York Subway with no pants on. As his project, Improv Everywhere, and vision expanded, the event became more popular and this has become an annual tradition....

Lost Boys Frosting Food Fight

by Uncustomary | Sep 24, 2014 | Performance

A few hours after I heard that Robin Williams had died, I knew that I had to dedicate my next event to him. One of my favorite movies he ever did was “Hook”, so I decided it would be fun to recreate the food fight Peter Pan has with the Lost Boys. I bought...

Troll On A Baltimore Bridge

by Uncustomary | Sep 10, 2014 | Performance

The 90’s weren’t just about awesome music fads. There were also some pretty incredible toys, like Trolls. (I realize that these things were originally made decades ago, but they definitely had a recycled spotlight in the 90’s.) I collected them as a...

Floating Dance Party

by Uncustomary | Sep 9, 2014 | Performance

Have you ever been a part of a floating dance party? They’ve been going on for a long time. What The Float hosts these events for people who love to have fun. We all downloaded the same tracks to our iPods and phones, and met in the dark on a humid Saturday...

SynchroSwim

by Uncustomary | Aug 29, 2014 | Performance

A couple months ago, Erika let me know about this pool art performance she found online. We rounded up some of our friends and executed her idea of making a comment on climate change. How did we do that? To the Captain Planet theme song, of course! photo credit: Sarah...

Artscape Flash Mob

by Uncustomary | Jul 25, 2014 | Performance, Street Art

I still don’t remember how I heard about the flash mob through Dance Baltimore. I think I just saw someone vaguely mention it on Facebook, and I looked into it to find out that practice would be held the following Tuesday, so I wrote it down on the calendar in...