Adelaide Flashmob

No Pants Tram Ride 2012

Nick Morris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:40:32 +0000

It was our 5th year running the ‘No Pants Tram Ride‘ event in Adelaide, South Australia. This year we were one of 59 cities worldwide participating in Improv Everywhere’s Global No Pants Subway Ride. After temperatures in the low 40?s C the weekend before we were unlucky to have a cold and rainy day on January 8th and had a pretty small turnout of 8 for our ride. Still, it was great fun as always and we got some good reactions.

For the second leg of our ride (riding from Glenelg back into the city) we did our variation on the standard ride, dubbed ‘Pants for Peace.’ We have our participants spread throughout the tram and about halfway through the ride, one person starts walking through and telling people she is collecting pants for a charity, called ‘pants for peace,’ to give to the homeless. She asks various random people on the tram who, of course, don’t give up their pants. Eventually she comes to one of the participants who ponders for a minute then says ‘why they hell not’ and proceeds to take off and hand over their pants to much gasping and even cheering from the rest of the tram. The pants collector continues down the tram and collects pants from each of our participants who ride out the rest of the journey pantsless. This idea gets a great reaction as well and is something different to do on the way back.

We will have some photos and videos from the event up in this post shortly.

Improv Everywhere Documentary

Improv Everywhere’s Matt Adams is currently making a documentary about Improv Everywhere and is raising funds on Kickstarter to finish it. The film will tell the story of IE and how it spread around the world. They still need more funds to get the project rolling so if this is something you’d like to see happen, head on over to this page and donate some money towards the project.

Ninja Raid on Adelaide 2011

Ben Teoh — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:30:51 +0000

Stealthy ninjas descended on Adelaide on Saturday, September 17. Dressed in black, they made their way through Rundle St. and Rundle Mall, silently moving through the crowds of people enjoying the shopping.

Ninja Raid on Adelaide 2011

Adelaide Flashmob’s annual Ninja Raid on Adelaide took off without a hitch. 30 ninjas joined in on the fun as we surprised shoppers and drew crowds of onlookers. One of the highlights was a game of “Sensei Says” – like Simon Says… but with ninjas! People watched as we stalked, hid, and pulled awesome ninja poses in Rundle Mall.

While not all parts of the event went as smoothly as possible (due to some rowdy lads in the Mall), those who came had a good time. Thanks to everyone who came along, and we hope to catch you at next year’s event!

Weird World of Sports – Featuring the Adelaide Flashmob!

Ben Teoh — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:24:25 +0000

Adelaide’s City Messenger have recently launched their Weird World of Sports video page, featuring different types of sport being played around Adelaide. Although, it might be a stretch to call what the Adelaide Flashmob does a ‘sport,’ we didn’t say no when the opportunity came up! They came out and took some footage of our Newspaper Mama event which was done in Rundle Mall, and added it to their Weird World of Sports roundup.

What’s even better is that they asked us (Ben Teoh and Nick Morris) to be part of their actual print article too! Check it out!

Ben Teoh and Nick Morris in Adelaide's City Messenger

Head over to the City Messenger’s Weird World of Sports page to see the video footage and other cool stuff happening in Adelaide.

Adelaide’s Surprise Celebrities get their 30 Seconds of Fame

Ben Teoh — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:01:38 +0000

I was all set to write up a great blog post about the recent 30 Seconds of Fame flashmob, but there’s no need to! Anastassia Perets from Inside Adelaide came along with her film crew to report on the event. Check out the video!

Bayside Zumba hits Rundle Mall

Ben Teoh — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:02:01 +0000

Congrats goes out to Bayside Zumba for pulling together a great flashmob event here in Adelaide. Rundle Mall was swamped by people dancing, chanting, clapping, cheering… it was pretty full on! As would be expected, a huge crowd watched as the spectacle happened!

Well done!