Flash Mobs
March 11, 2008
These events, demonstrations, or whatever you want to call them…are pretty interesting. A flash mob is basically a group of people who assemble in a public place (usually after meeting and discussing about it on the internet) and do something unusual for a brief period of time, then scatter. Wikipedia has a pretty description as well as a history of the flash mob. I had to look up what this phenomenon was after reading a post on the Shanghaiist detailing the gathering of a flash mob outside Sofitel in a busy district (Nanjing Dong Lu) of Shanghai - click through for video evidence. Standing still for 5 minutes? Pretty damn impressive. And yes, the shoppers were very confused by that unusual sight.
Anybody know of a flash mob happening in Chicago?
-Jack
March 12, 2008 at 1:23 am
i don’t know if you know about the group improv everywhere but i first heard about them after reading about a Best Buy prank they pulled. a little while later Yinnong showed me a clip of them doing the same thing those people in Sofitel did. Crystal showed me their website and a bunch of the videos are like that. check it out: http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen-grand-central/
March 13, 2008 at 10:26 pm
haha i heard about this… do you read shanghaiist too? haha i love reading random stuff about shanghai
March 14, 2008 at 11:26 am
lol yeah shanghaiist is sweet.