I stumbled upon this upcoming project from Crystal Beasley on Kickstarter. She is currently raising money to start up a pie cart in Downtown Portland. The cart will have delicious homemade fruit and custard pies (available a la mode) and coffee.
The twist? Well, I’ll let her explain it:
I see the pie cart as a space to observe human behavior. I’ll change up the rules constantly to test out different hypothesis of why people make the choices they do. Hopefully, it will facilitate serendipitous interactions between strangers in silly, funny and memorable ways.
Let me give you an example of one game that we’ll play that actually was the inspiration for it all. It came from a blog post written by Cabel Sasser of Panic about a Mystery Cafe that he stumbled upon in Japan. It works like this. A customer orders as usual but it’s explained that they don’t get what they ordered… they get what the person before them ordered. The person who comes after them will get what they ordered. It’s a big chain. You can elect to set the person after you for a sweet treat.
So, to me it sounds like it will be a pie cart that will be doing sort of candid-camera/PUNK’d type things to its customers (sans camera). Whatever the case, I am more than pleased to hear there will be a new pie cart in Portland.
Beasley is trying to raise $1,500 on Kickstarter and needs to meet that goal by July 5. You can contribute as low as $5 and contributors will receive a slice of pie, and if you give more, she also has some other attractive incentives, such as t-shirts and pie parties.
To track her progress, follow @PieLabPDX on Twitter.
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