Flash Mobs

yellum · 06-07-2003 05:43PM #1

Heres an interesting idea to mess with peoples heads:

Flash Mobs

Groups of people meet at locations for a brief few minutes and cause a scene and then just dissolve away. Its kind of like performance art.

Another use for boards people.

MrNuked · 06-07-2003 06:54PM

me like.
Maybe if one person started speaking in tongues and then everybody else started chanting "Hail Azuria. Hail Azuria" in Stephen's Green for 5 minutes and then left.

Cos that would scare the poo out of me.

yellum · 07-07-2003 01:30AM

We could do this too:

http://matrixreloaded_tokyo.tripod.co.jp/photo.html

Wolf · 07-07-2003 02:15AM

I like would anyone seriously like to do this for a laugh?

D-Generate · 07-07-2003 10:23AM

That seems so class, it would be pretty easy to organise one for cork since we have Peoplesrepublicofcork.com an all. Anyone care to organise one?

yellum · 07-07-2003 11:11AM

Might be fun to do alright. D-Generate, start a thread in the South Forum for a local flash mob.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 07-07-2003 11:18AM

the term "flash mob" could be... misleading

drrnwbb · 07-07-2003 11:19AM

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59518,00.html

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59297,00.html

two stories about it on wired.com

dw

dahamsta · 07-07-2003 12:38PM

Originally posted by yellum
Might be fun to do alright. D-Generate, start a thread in the South Forum for a local flash mob.

Three members of online community Boards.ie were arrested in Cork yesterday evening when they tried to arrange a new phenomenon known as a "flash mob" outside the Capitol Cineplex cinema. The term "flash mob" originated from meetings of activists and performance artists hastily arranged over the Internet and mobile phones, however the Cork trio appear to have misunderstood the term and arrived on the scene wearing black leather trenchcoats, sunglasses and little else. A minor panic ensued when the "Boardsters" - calling themselves Neo, Tank and Morpheus after characters in cult movie series "The Matrix" - formed a tight circle and exposed themselves to passers-by. The Boardster calling himself Tank, seemingly disoriented by the entire episode, also screamed "Beam me up Scotty" repeatedly at the audience, who by now had settled down to enjoy the performance and were heard to be muttering words like "weiner" and "haemaphrodite". The Gardaí arrived shortly afterwards and removed the miscreants from the scene.

yellum · 07-07-2003 12:51PM

Flash Mob
Not Flesh mob
Pah

Kone · 07-07-2003 01:01PM

sound like a laugh

Sev · 07-07-2003 05:56PM

I'm liking the Hail Azuria idea.

jammy_dodger · 07-07-2003 06:04PM

Definitely do it, Set up a thread with time and date, meet in Stephen's green, But make sure we all do something that is legal, something that the cops couldn't sting you on, like diturbing the peace.

Im up for it

MrNuked · 07-07-2003 07:28PM

maybe get a few ideas and do a poll on the best one. Do a multiple choice poll with different times and dates to see how many people actually want to do it at any time. have to be something people will actually do when it comes to it. The chanting part of my idea would be ok for instance but is there anyone who's going to pretend to have a religious fit in front of loads of people? Would work with just the chanting otherwise.

D-Generate · 07-07-2003 09:49PM

LOL that was brilliant dahamsta, when I first saw the words Flash Mob I thought it was a group of flashers aswell, easy mistake..... Are they illegal or what? I mean Flash Mos not Flasher Mobs

dahamsta · 08-07-2003 01:00AM

I got a bit confused, because I wanted to fit the line "matters were delayed for another moment while Neo went for a slash", but it wouldn't fit. So to speak.

Anyway, I think it depends on the number, I think that if you reach a certain number it would be defined as a "gathering" or somesuch, and would have to be "licenced" by the Gardaí. Yellum, you're a treehugger troublemaker, you should know this stuff...?

{btw, i would be /so/ on for something like this. two instances in fact, one performance, one activist}

adam

yellum · 08-07-2003 01:39AM

Treehugger ? I'm a tree burner. Look at my work history.

I'll look into it.

/me rings gardai

"so if I had 79 people its legal but 80 and its not ? Okay. Thanks. Oh no reason. "

[CALIBUR] · 08-07-2003 02:24AM

Neo V the smiths in eyre square in Galway.

get 100 lads who are the same size get some make-up to make them all the same but also that ya need them to learn the fights. and u need them to hide somewhere. In the moive neo fights only a few smiths but more and more come running out buildings to fight him to pull this off u need trucks in other parts in eyre square full smiths.

If we did something like that I'm joining in. It be so cool if that happened.

dahamsta · 08-07-2003 09:05AM

"so if I had 79 people its legal but 80 and its not ? Okay. Thanks. Oh no reason. "

ROFL

Epitaph · 08-07-2003 10:31AM

Neo V the smiths in eyre square in Galway.

I didn't know that there was old Smiths' remixes out. Zhivago on Eyre Square, you say?

Dustaz · 08-07-2003 12:39PM

There is only one real choice.

Eircom HQ. Fake death if anyone inside looks out. Big enough crowd that would be funny

yellum · 08-07-2003 01:03PM

I'm just thinking. Do something like the Radiohead video "Just".

Everyone just gather outside and then all fall down and lie there for a few minutes and move on.

We'll need people with digital and video cameras to record this "performance"

Have no purpose advertised for the event. No placards and no comments from those taking part.

the fnj · 08-07-2003 01:24PM

If everyone formed a giant conga line in St. Stephen's Green and ran all the way down Grafton St. I'm sure lots of other people would join the line for the craic.

When I first read this I also though something similar to Just were everyone falls down would be funny. You would need cameras, preferably hidden, to video peoples reaction.

dahamsta · 08-07-2003 02:25PM

Everyone just gather outside and then all fall down and lie there for a few minutes and move on.

I saw a bunch of lads do that one day on Oliver Plunkett Street. They were obviously on a session, about a dozen of them, and all at once the lot of them collapsed in a big heap outside the Bodhrán. Just for a couple of seconds, then they all got up again and when on their merry way. Very funny moment.

I like Dusty's idea. I can just see a load of Boardsters mugging horrific deaths every time someone looked out. Clutching hearts and throats, hands raised clawlike...

adam

D-Generate · 08-07-2003 05:31PM

I like that congo idea, or else people all collapseing and lie down at the entrance to some building, all over the steps, it would look class.

jammy_dodger · 09-07-2003 11:01AM

These are all good ideas, but is anyone gonna organize this thing, also whats boards.ie mods opinion, if it got back to the media could it cause boards.ie any damage?

MrNuked · 09-07-2003 06:08PM

might be good publicity. Don;t think it would cause damage unless we organised something antisocial.

Think the Radiohead video idea is good but that most people who saw it would just think "oh they're doing that thing from the Radiohead video." Something more originalwould be better I think.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 09-07-2003 06:11PM

or else any americans around might think it's a biological weapon attack.

Winters · 09-07-2003 07:41PM

I like the sounds of this Flash Mob stuff.. lotf os fun could be had.

The best is to follow Dustaz and yellum's plan but make some slight changes.

At the exact same time on the same day outside the Eircom offices in Galway, Cork and Dublin a mod gather and then fall down [while being filmed] and after a few min run away.

Though the most important thing is to have it happen in all 3 cities at the ame time outside the eircom buildings... would be best then

MrNuked · 09-07-2003 08:11PM

Mordeth or else any americans around might think it's a biological weapon attack.

ah ha ha ha lets all laugh at the american people. Show how hip and freethinking we are by making inane bigoted remarks!

yellum · 10-07-2003 09:52AM

Originally posted by MrNuked

Think the Radiohead video idea is good but that most people who saw it would just think "oh they're doing that thing from the Radiohead video." Something more originalwould be better I think.

Those that saw the Radiohead vid are in the minority not the majority.

And a flash mob is original. It borrows from other things but the idea of doing this is original enough.

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