MetaFilter posts tagged with Flashmob

Meetup and beat up

seemoreglass — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:46 -0800

This Saturday is International Pillow Fight Day.

"Onze helden zijn terug!"

zarq — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:43:19 -0800

On April 13, the Rijksmuseum will reopen to the public after a renovation and makeover that took five years longer than expected and went tens of millions of dollars over budget. The museum's most famous painting was also one of the last to be restored to its original location: Rembrandt's "The Night Watch". Sponsor ING Bank celebrated with a unique and special flashmob. Background * The Amsterdam Herald * Slideshow of the museum's new digs Explore the Rijksmuseum Online * Rijksstudio (Previously!) * The Collection * Masterpieces, including The Night Watch (Formal name: "The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out.") and The Milkmaid * A Timeline of Dutch history and background on Dutch historical figures. The Night Watch The painting was incorporated into the plot of a 1942 Nazi biopic entitled "Rembrandt". (That's the full movie, but it's in German.) * Rembrandt Painting: The Night Watch * The Art Wolf: "The night watch" * Art Encyclopedia 2013: The Night Watch by Rembrandt

Bazinga!

zarq — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:22:17 -0800

The Big Bang Theory Flash Mob: Short Version. Full Compilation. Tracklist for the full compilation: 0:14 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 0:53 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger 1:36 Beyoncé - Run The World (Girls) 1:50 Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin' 2:08 Ludacris - My Chick Bad 2:29 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem 2:50 Flo Rida ft. T-Pain - Low

"An Engagement at the ICA"

zarq — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:50:53 -0800

MeFi's Own Jack and Teresa Got Engaged. [via mefi projects] Direct link to the video.

Damn you humanity that's just smoke in my eye

infini — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:17:23 -0800

Flashmob of the Day: A flashmob invaded a Copenhagen, Denmark Metro train last month.

Four turns for a dollar. 500 turns for two dollars.

You Should See the Other Guy — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:35:31 -0800

Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick (previously) makes the day of the nine-year-old proprietor of Caine's Arcade.

Weren't you the 1% who hurt me with your lies?

finite — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:20:43 -0800

We Will Survive Capitalism! flash mob with US Uncut [previously] and the Brass Liberation Orchestra
Previous BLO flash mobs include Bad Hotel [previously], Operation Hey Mackey [previously], and "PAY UP!" (demanding Bank of America pay their taxes). Speaking of BofA, in San Francisco on Thursday activists turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine, using special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses. More renditions of I Will Survive Capitalism, at the November 2nd Oakland General Strike: BLO without dance troupe; larger dance troupe, without the BLO [rehearsal/instructional video] Dancing without Borders' One People flash mob at Occupy Oakland kickstarting the November 19, 2011 Action march [instructional video, edited video of performances in Oakland and SF] More flash mob bank protests (some amusical): Flash Protest inside a Bank of America in Brunswick, Maine demands banks pay their fair share; Occupy Philadelphia flash mob dances at a Wells Fargo; Occupy Portland sings and mic-checks inside Wells Fargo; OccupySF occupies Bank of America with a tent; OccupySF sings and dances to "Occupy Telephone" inside Wells Fargo; Opponents of Ohio Senate Bill 5 target the Huntington Bank for a flash mob. They cited the bank's campaign contributions to politicians that support the collective-bargaining reform bill. Led by officials from Progress Ohio, They sang a modified "Hang On Sloopy" in the bank lobby. And now for something completely different, a few flash mobs by banks: employees of Lake Sunapee Bank dance at a Farmers' Market in Newport, NH; flash mob at Whitney Bank employee meeting; professional dancers hired by TD Bank perform in New York City; many dancers, percussionists, and a choir hired by Wells Fargo perform in Times Square I began this post after following links from this tweet about the arrest of the BLO's Lauren Montana Swiger, who credited in the description of the first video as "magic wrangler, organizer, dance instructor". This 20 minute clip of SF State Journalism teacher Justin Beck's ustream follows her distraught daughter from the police station where she was arrested to the Hall of Justice where she is presently being held.

Why this Kolaveri Di, NZ-style

embrangled — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:51:22 -0800

Kiwi fans of the hit Tanglish song 'Why This Kolaveri Di?' surprise shoppers in Auckland's main square. (Previously).

No Reindeer Running Over These Grannies!

ericb — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:56:12 -0800

Grannies' Christmas Flash Mob.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

furiousxgeorge — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:23:06 -0800

Irish dancing flash mob in Sydney's Central Station. The dancers included twenty members of the Riverdance show and dancers from local Irish dancing schools.

Flash mob protest, Seville style

madamjujujive — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:02:33 -0800

Flamenco flash mob stages a protest against a bank: Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Banco de Santander. (via @hrheingold) News clip (in Spanish) A protest tutorial (awesome, heh) More video clips from flo6x8 FLO6x8.com - NSFW - Protest sponsors Another news story in Spanish: Nueva protests flamenca contra la banca or via cryptic Google translation.

Holiday enthusiasm is contagious!

2bucksplus — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:08:12 -0800

Food Court Flash Mob sings the "Hallelujah" chorus. This time things go poorly.

Two months after the Westfield Galleria in Roseville closed from a devastating fire, shoppers were again forced to evacuate Monday. This time, choral singers are to blame. The Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra and several area congregations had prearranged a "flash mob" singing of the "Hallelujah Chorus" in the mall's food court. But with thousands of people crowding the second-floor food court, the "random act of musical kindness" never got off the ground. "It was so jammed with people that you could not even move," said Connie Santos, who hoped to enjoy the music, then shop. There were no reports of injuries as the mall was peacefully evacuated starting about 6:45 p.m. The mall was scheduled to close at 11 p.m.

Despite announcements on the mall's intercom that the building would be evacuated, firefighters were required to escort stragglers outside. There's also a slideshow and a video in the sidebar at the link. The mall's public relations firm knew the plan days in advance and was ready to escort media outlets to prime viewing locations. Choral organizers drummed up support primarily through Twitter and other social networking sites. Flashmobs have appeared previously on the blue, most recently here.

Only 6 grams of fat, HALLELUJAH!

sonika — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:38:21 -0800

Food Court Flash Mob sings the "Hallelujah" chorus.

"The whole world turns upside-down in 10 years, but you turn upside-down with it." -- Spider Robinson, 1977.

crunchland — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:02:37 -0800

The Power of the Internet : Flash Mob Gone Wrong ... a story about how the cool things we love about the internet, combined, can go horribly, horribly wrong, by Tom Scott. From Ignite. (via (via)) (p.s. spoiler : It's just a parable, using similar events that actually happened, but not all at once.)

The Golden Rule on the Golden Gate

dirtynumbangelboy — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:29:31 -0800

Last week, this postcard appeared on the popular PostSecret^[1st][etc], a blog in which people anonymously share their secrets via postcard.

"In seven days over 50,000 of you joined an online community^[fb] offering encouragement and help. Today (Sunday) at noon hundreds are meeting on the Golden Gate Bridge to take a stand against suicide at the very place where it happens most in the world. (You're invited, look for the yellow balloons and ribbons). This hopeful story has received international press coverage including this first report on Time Magazine's NewsFeed. I haven't heard from the person who mailed this postcard, but I have heard from many who have felt lifted by this flashmob of kindness."

And as the site says every week:

Call 1(800)SUICIDE [1-800-784-2433] for help, day or night.

(USA only. State by state resources. LGBTQ youth in the USA: 1-866-4-U-TREVOR. Canadian resources, with a special nod to the long-running and incredibly helpful Kids Help Phone, 1.800.668.6868). Outside North America.)

Flash mob opera REDUX

emilyd22222 — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:01:34 -0800

More than 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and cast members of La traviata performed a flash opera in the aisles of Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Previous flash mob on Mefi Previous flash mob opera on Mefi Previous flash mob music

TILLYKKE MUKHTAR

creeky — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:50:34 -0800

Mukhtar is a bus driver who gets a surprise for his birthday.

Don't get caught in a bad hotel

koeselitz — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:11:07 -0800

Bad Hotel - a FlashMob direct action for San Francisco hotel workers' right to health care by Pride At Work, Sleep With The Right People, and the Brass Liberation Orchestra. For those interested, here's why they're doing this. The arrangement is by The Rude Mechanical Orchestra of NY, BLO's sister group. [This does happen to include a song by a certain ubiquitous pop star, though it's not really about her, so if you'd rather keep avoiding her, please don't click the link. I thought this was worthwhile in its own right as a neat use of a brass band and a flashmob for pro-union action. This is via jardinier's first draft of this post, and thanks go to Mefite and Pride At Work member gingerbeer and Rude Mechanical Orchestra member Jon_Evil for some good info about it.]

I've created a flash monster

grobstein — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:03:32 -0800

Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia

[H]undreds of teenagers have been converging downtown for a ritual that is part bullying, part running of the bulls: sprinting down the block, the teenagers sometimes pause to brawl with one another, assault pedestrians or vandalize property. . . . The flash mobs have raised questions about race and class. Most of the teenagers who have taken part in them are black and from poor neighborhoods. Most of the areas hit have been predominantly white business districts. In the flash mob on Saturday, groups of teenagers were chanting “black boys” and “burn the city,” bystanders said.

Bill Wasik is not proud.

Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night

empath — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:10:55 -0800

The Black Eyed Peas perform at Oprah's Season Premiere -- 21,000 dancers join in. I don't know if you want to call this a flashmob or a viral or corporate BS, or whatever, but watching it made me feel happy, so I thought I'd share.

LA's Got Talent

exogenous — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:15:46 -0800

Hammer Pants mob invades a retail clothing store. SLYT

Braaaiihicnzzz

FunkyHelix — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:07:47 -0800

Philly Zombie Crawl Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get dead tonight. Get dead tonight.

Mob Deep

oldleada — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:37:08 -0800

Remember flash mobs? Two and a half years later, the inventor, the mysterious "Bill," reveals himself as.... an editor at Harper's, aka the Metafilter of the print world. He unmasks himself in a mammoth rumination on hipster culture, an attack on flash-mob cooptation, and a paean to Stanley Milgram. Harper's is serializing the essay on its website; the first part is up here.

Pillow Fight Club

sourbrew — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:33:15 -0800

Pillow Fight Club went off with nary a hitch in San Francisco on Valentines Day with over 1,000 people in attendance. Pictures at laughing squid, flickr, video, and previous thread.

Flash Mob Opera

srboisvert — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:14:07 -0800

Brand New Flashmob Opera from Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.