#scav2010

[rogueclown]

255.  You know what would be cool? If you could dance to the soundtrack of your life and your (wo)man- sized marionette twin followed your every move. You know what would be cooler? If there were two of them. . . or three. . . or four. Let’s be clear, some dude just jerking around the marionettes would be very not cool. Your movements should animate the marionettes with only the help of various ingenious mechanical contrivances, and the more sweet dance moves they can perform, the better. Also, if they made us question which of them is man and which is marionette, that’d be scrumptious. [75 points each for the first two marionettes, 50 for the third, and 25 for the fourth] †

atrocious?  a wonder?  i really can't tell, but these Bye Bye Bye marionettes from B-J in 2010 are hilarious for anyone who was around for a certain slice of late nineties/early aughts pop culture.

[rogueclown]

133. Look, Maria, this is ScavHunt. While I'd love to spend a whole day frolicking through the Alps with you and the von Trapp children, I simply don't have the time. You're going to have to take your Do-Re-Mi and speed it up. A lot. Start at the very beginning (a very good place to start) and perform the entire number as fast as you can, including as much of the appropriate choreography as possible-the carriage ride, skipping gaily about the fountain, step-jumping, etc. Make sure that all seven children are wearing the play-clothes you made from those tatty old curtains. All performances must be live. [1.6 points per 10 seconds under 5 minutes]

this item was a blast to do -- and Janice is awesome at organizing group performance items.

this item was also a collaboration between GASH and FIST; i thought the collaboration between teams on a performance was pretty fabulous.

[rogueclown]

i can haz Stradivarius?

in 2010, i went out on the road trip.  we finished up our last road trip item, which involved disco dancing outside the prison from the Shawshank Redemption.  i was determined not to waste those last hours on the way home, and started flipping through the list looking for things to do.  my eyes fell upon an item:

75.  Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1660-1720. On campus. [90 points for a violin, 125 points for a cello, 150 points for a viola]

i cracked up, and someone else in the car asked me why.  i declared that i didn't think anyone was ever going to get this item, and read it aloud.

at which point James, one of the other folks on the road trip, whips out his phone.  he calls his friend, who is a violin dealer, who had an honest-to-God Stradivarius cello in his possession.  he arranged for a time that GASH could bring a judge over to see the instrument.

i could hardly believe it...and part of me still hardly does.  this remains one of the most magical and flabbergasting moments out of all the scav hunts i've done.

[bjscav-blog]

Item 141 - Scav Hunt 2010:

"With a horrible, hissing, sucking sound, it splashed in a curving arc straight across the street, crushing everything and everybody in its path". Commemorate the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy of 1919 with a scale recreation/reenactment of the disastrous Molassacre. [19.19 points]