What do you know about flash mobs?
Apparently, I'm a few years behind. All of this is news to me. I thought flash mobs only happened when class let out or airline customers disembarked.
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Stay Free! magazine (interview with the originator in issue #24)
Bill Wasik (originator)
Sean Savage(near the bottom of page)
Jane McGonigal (at the bottom of page)
NYTimes
flash mob news from uk
wikipedia (includes picture of pillow fight flash mob in Toronto)(check out the link to Larry Niven's sci-fi story "Flash Crowd." In "Flash Crowd" gawkers and criminals use teleportation to go to the sites of news events as they're happening.)
Flash mob as bank advertisement (Interesting art always gets co-opted by commercial advertising)
Word Spy
cnn
Stay Free! magazine (interview with the originator in issue #24)
Bill Wasik (originator)
Sean Savage(near the bottom of page)
Jane McGonigal (at the bottom of page)
NYTimes
flash mob news from uk
wikipedia (includes picture of pillow fight flash mob in Toronto)(check out the link to Larry Niven's sci-fi story "Flash Crowd." In "Flash Crowd" gawkers and criminals use teleportation to go to the sites of news events as they're happening.)
Flash mob as bank advertisement (Interesting art always gets co-opted by commercial advertising)
posted by Anonymous at 1:28 PM
5 Comments:
I wonder if something like this could be done with poetry. Maybe a bunch of people reading lines randomly, depending on who got there first. Or at the same time? Could this be used for unpredictable political protests?
sure. Where should we do it?
Actually you're right there at the hub of where it should be done, huh?
Flash mobs? I so totally associate those with the late great dotcom era. According to Wikipedia the first mob was all of three years ago. Blow me down!
Somebody at work today told me an unclear story about something that sounded like flash theater. You know anything about that? Somebody calls some people, tells each to write a particular section of a play about something that meets some criteria to fit it in the play. All writers meet somewhere at preordained time same day, play is performed by writers. All leave.
Flash theatre? Huh. Sounds cute.
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