Sunday, April 12, 2009

On the subject of flash mobs...

The previous post is an example of a flash mob musical number, where a huge crowd of people seemingly appear from nowhere to create this piece of performance art. There are a lot of different ways flash mobs show up, though, and here are a couple examples:

This was actually for a (supposedly banned) xbox commercial; apologies for the poor quality, I can't find a decent one, but at least you get the general idea here...there are some fantastic small moments you miss out on, though:



This is a Japanese flash mob called "The troop of the 100," pulling pranks:



(In the first two, the man is screaming "Tsunami!!!")

2 comments:

Excaliborn7 said...

Great pieces. The Japanese 100 people flash mob pranks are especially powerful to me. It's amazing to think about the tipping point with numbers....that point when a crew becomes a gang becomes a force and so on.

Erin Brady said...

I really like the xbox commercial. If video games were banned, I could definitely see this happening. I am sure that my house would be a war zone.

The flash mob is very funny. I cannot imagine what my reaction would be...