On Sunday 1st of March, The largest group of Ninjas ever seen will descend upon Rundle Mall!

Where: South East Corner Of Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide
When: 2:30pm Sunday 1st of March

• Wear Black Clothes
• Bring a Black T-Shirt (for headgear)

(more details in the second half of this post)

The Story so Far…

How it Started

The Ninjas, once feared warriors, had been losing their edge for years as they waged territorial battles amongst themselves and paid little attention to protecting their borders from foreign sea dogs. They had lost their reputation as the unseen killers, black as death, and allowed pirates to stumble the streets of Adelaide drunk and unchecked.

In early 2008 the Pirate Prince docked at Port Adelaide unchallenged and declared the city his. Many of the older Ninjas were upset that the borders they had fought so hard to secure had been lost so easily but they were powerless against the young and fearless pirate hordes.

There was one Ninja who had not forgotton the old ways and was not about to let his home city fall. He was a young and calculating warrior called Red Ninja and he united the many tribes to come out of the shadows and show their strength in the Ninja Raid on Adelaide. Red Ninja was a natural leader and a good general too. Fighting under him, the Ninjas found a sense of pride once again and fought on until they had retaken the city and captured the Pirate Prince.

[event report and video]

(several months passed)

News of his son’s capture reaches the Pirate King far across the seven seas. He is furious that his son could be so careless but outraged that the Ninjas perpetrated such a brazen and personal attack.

The King loves his son, but he loves his pride even more. He is calling for all factions of the Pirate empire to unite behind his flag, retake the city, and squash out the Ninjas for good.

He is offering 12 chests of gold for the one who rescues his son and delivers the Red Ninjas head on a platter.

Meanwhile, his success in battle has been kind to Red Ninja. He is now no longer a warrior but a Ninja Lord with the allegiance and respect of thousands. He has got wind of the Pirates’ plan and has sent messages to all corners of the land for Ninjas to be ready to fight their sworn enemies, the Pirates, in a conflict to end all conflicts, The Battle for Adelaide.

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(a short time passes and a treaty is hastily drawn up…)

Temporary Treaty

I, The Pirate King and I, Red Ninja, agree (mostly) that the facts below are true and agree that ourselves and our armies will be bound by this treaty under penalty of death.

No Pirate or Ninja will engage in battle until this new threat to both our survivals is dealt with.  Both our races have been so preocupied with their etternal struggle for power that the Zombies have been all but forgotton and have been able to create a massive army capable of destoying both the Ninjas and the Pirates if we fight them alone.  Only by working together will we have a chance of surviving.

Once the Zombie threat is neutralised we will return to opposite sides of the battle field and resume our endless battle.

Signed

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Pirate King: X Arrrrr

Red Ninja: X

(around October 2007)

Despite the best efforts of both the Pirates and the Ninjas, the Zombies managed to walk the city, undead and unhindered.  The cowardly Pirate army quickly leapt to their ships and sailed away leaving the Ninjas to fend for themselves.  Many great warriors were killed that night but the Zombies were eventually banished from the land of the living once more.

(fast forward to the present)

Now that the pirates have deserted us and the Zombie threat has been neutralised, its time to reveal our full strength.  For one day we shall not move like shadows, we shall not remain invisable.  We will show our full strength and prove the Adelaide is ours!

I only just (May 8th 2009) found this video when I was searching around on youtube.  I attended the event and it was great fun.  I’d been wanting to do an MP3 event in Adelaide for ages so it was great to finally have one with someone as experienced as Charlie (Improv Everywhere).  Since I wasn’t an organiser I was able to enjoy the event as simply a participant and it was awesome!

The “Adelaide Fringe Flashmob Mission” was on Saturday (March 7th).  This was an official Fringe event being put together by Improv Everywhere tinker bell divx online

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(USA) and the Adelaide Fringe ????? ???? ???? ????? ?????? , and was part of ‘The Playground’ series of events.  The Adelaide Flash Mob helped out with promotion and local knowledge.  From the Fringe website:

Psst… wanna take part in a secret mission? Register to be part of Flashmob with Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd (USA), famous for his ‘freeze’ in New York’s Grand Central Station (check out YouTube’s FREEZE). Remember “loose lips sink ships!”

The details were kept secret until just a few days before the event.  Those who were interested in participating needed to email the event email address to get themselves on a mailing list to receive the information when it came out.

Its been a while since our last Flash Mob so save the date for our next event coming up in June.

Date: 13 June 2009
Time:

1pm – 2pm
Meeting Location: Hindmarsh Square (near the Robots on Poles)
Questions: adelflashmob(at)hotmail(dot)com

Whats a flash mob?
“A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse”

We’re Still Looking for Ideas

For this event we’d like to get some more people involved in the organising and coming up with ideas. If you’re not familiar with our events have a read of the flashmobs we’ve done so far.  What we usually do is 3-5 flashmobs for each event to make a day of it.

If you have an idea that you’d like to try out, let us know on the facebook facebook group and in the comment on this post (don’t forget to add your email address in the field so we can contact you). We’ll pick a few for this and get those who came up with the ideas to help organise them, if they want to.

Following on from our other ideas post we’d like to get some more feedback on what mobs people want to do. Check back to our first 13 ideas and let us know if theres any there which we haven’t done yet but you’d still like to do, if you have any new ideas of your own post them in the comments as well.

#7: Improv Everywhere: This was a popular idea and we’d like to know which IE mission you are most interested in…

7.1: Frozen Event: Everybody freezes in a public space for about 5 mins: Youtube Video, IE Report, Global Freeze Events

7.2: Random Musical: Bunch of seamingly random people break out into song in a public place: Youtube Video, IE Report

7.3: Time Loop: Bunch of people repeat a bunch of actions over and over: Youtube Video, IE Report

7.4: Un-Employees : Everybody dresses similar to the employees of a shop then all go there and confuse everybody: IE Report

7.4: MP3 Actions: We make and MP3 with a bunch of instructions on it and everyone dowloads it, puts it on their mp3 player and presses play at the same time (IE have done this a number of times): Youtube Video

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Many more ideas after the jump.
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The Fringe is almost upon us and theres going to be thousands more people in Adelaide. Its an opportunity to do a Flash Mob that we simply can’t miss. Its been a while since our last official mob (they don’t have pepsi?: dec 27th) and our last related event (no pants: jan 15th), and its partly because we’re having a bit of trouble deciding what to do. We have basically decided to do something in the CBD since we’re almost guaranteed to get a decent number of onlookers. We also want to try and do more than one mob this time, since each once is so brief, in order to make it more of an event for people to come out for.

Here are some of the ideas that we’ve come up with or have been suggested to us. Please let us know which one(s) you think would work best and any other feedback, or your own ideas, by:

-leaving a comment on this post (below)

-Email us: adelflashmob@hotmail.com

-Facebook Group

-MySpace Group

Ideas:

#1: Homeless Harry: Easy one. We have a mobber dress up as a homeless man with a hat in the central city area. Homeless Harry then finds a bench, lies down on it, places his hat on the ground and then falls asleep… Then we have mobbers walk by and give him coins, and a few more form a crowd and throw money, etc. As the crowd grows, we start to cheer Harry’s actions. For example if he coughs, or scratches himself, we start to clap and cheer.

#2: Demand and Demand: We choose a store, a product, and a starting point. Group rushes the store all at once, yelling for said object and making a cuffuffle. Obviously a small, unknown, or non-existant item would work better for this. Or Big Macs from KFC even

#3: Round of Applause: Simply put, we find something random to applaude. For example, someone sitting on a park bench. Or someone using an ATM. Or someone buying a coke. We just come out from our hiding places, applaude, take photos, etc, and then leave again.

#4: The Picket Line tracey fragments the dvd : We form a picket line, objecting something absurd. Construction of basic banners, signs, flyers and chants would be in order, but imagine a group of people claiming “The Sun’s Not Fun” and demanding the Government get rid of it.

#5: Bed Time: Everybody sets their mobile phone alarms to a predetermined time and to loud setting. We all pretend to fall asleep in a public place; on benches, at tables, on ground, leaning against walls etc. and when the alarms go off simultaneously, we all get up suddenly and walk off.

#6: Round and Round: Choose 2 escilators in the Myer Centre, 1 going up, 1 going down, stand on them, reading news papers and keep going around on them for a while.

#7: Improv Everywhere: We could do something similar to Improv Everywhere’s missions such as: Bestbuy, slo-mo home depot, etc (check out Improv Everywhere website)

#8: Flash Worship: Hey does everybody know the spruiker guy from out front the rennaisance tower on rundle mall. He’s embarrassed half of adelaide at one time or another. What if we flash worshipped him? He’s got a sense of humour.

#9: Celebrity: How about someone who looks like a “celebrity” arriving at an opening (eg. festival theatre, or stadium) in a limo, and we have a fake paparazzi stampede? “Are you here for the concert? Is it true you broke up with Brad Pitt?” and lots of us with cameras and ID things around our necks? etc

#10: Random Item: We could pick out a random item, and turn up en masse as an anxious mob desperately trying to purchase one each as if it was some weird craze. that’d freak out the shop owners.

#11: Generous Mob: Do something nice for fellow Adelaidians… a mob of people start handing out ‘With Compliments’ cards, and giving people a compliment at the same time. “I love that shirt”, “your hair is looking great today!”

#12: Uniform: Everybody comes dressed in the same outfit such as suits. You could create some pretty cool effects that way, like the Smiths in the Matrix.

#13: Conga

: Create a massive conga line down Rundel Mall. Each mobbers joins the line from a differnt place and pretends not to know other participants. Would be interesting to see how many non mobbers we could get involved.

Remember the Fringe dates are Feb 22nd till March 16th so we need to get onto this. Let us know what you think of these ideas.