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.

#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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, IE Report

Many more ideas after the jump.

#14: Be Free: how about lots of people go to kfc, order the popcorn chicken, throw it in the air and scream, “be free”

#15: Collective Buying : We should choose a bunnings and everybody buys only 1 screw, lug nut, nail etc and then pays with a $50 note

#16: RickMob: Following the recent RickRolling Internet craze. They live Rickrolled the Liverpool Street tube station and are estimating they got around 1000 people participating. Youtube Video, Original Facebook Event.

#17: Random Dancing: Hokey Pokey and Turn Around Rundle Mall, The chicken dance.

#18: Loop: Loop around the david jones escalator.

#19: Stop : Go somewhere where a lot of people have to exit from, and all hold our hands with the stop geasture for a minute. One person starts, and everybody cascades the stop.

Variation on Stop: it might be funny to get somesone with one of those sign that construction workers have with ‘stop’ on one side and ‘slow’ on the other and stand with it in a busy pedestrian area. Mobbers approach and stop as the sign says.

#20: Mouse

: everybody goes into the myer food court and finds a seat, one person yells out mouse and everybody scrambles to jump up onto their chairs and reacts to an imaginary mouse (could also have someone dressed in a mouse costume)

#21: Simon Does: i like the idea of everyone copying someone at the same time. I thought it might be interesting to everyone to bring/ buy a newspaper and then we all sit down in a particular area like a coffee shop or something and copy the actions of one person. The newspaper would make a good prop and would produce some interesting sounds with everyone doing it at the same time.

#22: Traiter: The flash mobbers all group around somewhere, one of the mobbers walk by and then someone goes, “OI ITS HIM” and then all the mobbers take chase.

#23: Metal Head: First we need to contact that guy whos always walking down Rundle Mall very fast and listening to heavy metal, then, as long as its ok with him we incorporate him into a mob such as everyone follows him and sings along to the music like him.

#24: The Enormous Turnip: Based on that children’s picture book. Someone either gets stuck somewhere and can’t pull themselves free or finds something on the ground, in a crack (like a turnip) and can’t pull it up so they enlist the help of a passerby to help out. They still can’t do it so they get someone else and so on until theres a long line of people, each person pulling the person in front of them.

#25: Towel Day or Carrotty Paniccy Buy…: Do something for one of these upcoming events.

#26: Dance Off/Battle: This one would require some forward planning. Basically we plant two ‘buskers’ near each other in Rundle Mall each doing something song and dance related. We have them get more and more annoyed at each other for steeling spectators and getting in each others way until they decide to have a Dance Off/ Dance Battle to settle the arguments. This would probably have to be pre-rehersed and choreographed, but then the rest of the mobbers come in and take sides and cheer on their respective side.

#27: Lip Dub Mob: Do a preplanned Lip Dub in a public place, film it and put it on the net. Lip Dubbing is another internet craze, check it out.

Post your thoughts in the comments section below or email us at adelflashmob [at] hotmail [dot] com

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.