Our last flashmob event was all the way back at the end of 2008 so it was good to get back in the hot seat.  The weather looked a bit dicey for a while but turned out great for the duration of the event even though it managed to run an hour overtime.  We were a little light on numbers at the meeting place so I made a last ditch attempt to recruit some more mobbers by handing out instructions in the mall and directing them to our first activity, “Thumbwar Championships.”  I managed to get another 5 or so people which swelled by an additional 4 or 5 before the event’s end.

For this event we also had two uni students, Jay Anderson and Andro Malapira, filming for a doco project for their uni course.  The finished product is below.

(also available on youtube)

Here’s a basic rundown of the four activities from this event.  If you participated then please leave your thoughts and comments about the event in the comments below.  We should have a video coming shortly as well.

Thumbwar Championships

“Sign Up” at the malls balls meeting point and pair off for round one of the thumbwar championships. “1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumbwar,” and the battles begin.  At the end of the round the losers are eliminated and the winners progress to round two.  This continues until we have a Thumbwar Champion.

Boing, Boing

Mobber 1 starts bobbing up and down and saying “boing, boing, boing… etc” reasonably loudly.  Other mobbers gradually join in.  We started this behind the busking magician who’s often in the mall and he felt the need to make a number of comments as he thought we were stealing his show.

Simon Does Loop

Everybody walks a looping route from the mall and through the Myer Centre that includes… Check watch, walk towards Myer, tie shoe, go down escaltor, walk left, fake trip, go up escalator, go back out into the mall.  Repeat the loop 5 times over, keeping your head in your newspaper all the time through.

We only managed 2.5 times through the loop before a security gaurd kicked us out… apparently reading the newspaper is against their conditions of entry.

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Find a seat in the City Cross food court, near the Subway and Hungry Jacks.  As mobber in mouse costume approaches shout out “Mouse!” and jump up on chairs, searching the floor.  Mouse will walk through the food court and out the door into Grenfell Street.  Once he is gone, sit back down and go about your business.

The female security guard chased down the mouse and stopped him just before he did his walk through the foodcourt.  She didn’t want to chuck him out, but ask for a photograph with him.  Unfortunately that put her right there for when we all shouted out and we were quickly asked to leave.

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.

[event report]

(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.

Thanks to all those who came out to the event, as always it was hard work but great fun.

For an idea of how the event went, I suggest you check out the video below then read all the great comments from participants at the end of the post.

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If You Can Read This My Cape Fell Off

At the beginning of the raid, before we left Hindmarsh square, we did a small amount of filming some of which involved chasing a girl in a red t-shirt that said “if you can read this my cape fell off” on the back.

That was Bec Hill and the filming we did was for her show at this years fringe, ‘If you can read this my cape fell off.’

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Join Bec as she searches for a loophole which may classify her as a superhero. However, when your only superpower is making awesome cheese-on-toast, do you stand much of a chance? THE show for anyone who has ever fancied themselves as a superhero… …Without the heroic or super part.

Trailer of the Show:

(also available on youtube)

Photos

Thanks to all those who uploaded photos from the event:

• Jennifer King
• Kara Lee Holloway
• John Goodridge
• SanSan Ja
• Ben Teoh
• Rachel Jose
• Sean Curry
• Rejectreality (also on flickr)

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I have added a few into the post below, you can view them all on facebook.

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