The End is Nigh?

New York held its seventh, and penultimate flash mob this evening. The mob itself was so-so, but the main news is that Bill announced Mob #8 to be held on 10th September will be the last.

There is a full report at Fred's Journal.

Posted by Fred at August 27, 2003 05:30 AM

Comments

1 August 27, 2003 07:53 AM Simon: So silly season is drawing to an end. I suspect many more places will be thinking of calling it a day. There is at least one more London mob, Sept 3, though it is probably unlikley that there will be any after that now that New York has thrown the towel. Any place that has not had a flash mob yet will have to hurry - the sun is setting!

2 August 27, 2003 01:01 PM david

Maybe theres something I am missing here, but I really don't understand why other mobs would feel its "the time to stop" because the NY guys have grown bored ? Aren't some of you afraid that if one stable mob declares it last drinks that other mobs will follow a la dominoe ? Our mob has just started, and if we end up the last mob still at it, then so be it.

But it'd be a damn shame..

Cheers,

David

3 August 27, 2003 02:40 PM The Brain

Hmmm! I too get the feeling that the summer madness is drawing to an end. But I do not feel that is the end of the 'flash' concept. We here in Hull plan further happenings, and expect a resurgence when the students return to our city. However I do feel that the 'flash' idea is expanding beyond the 'mob'. We are planning other activities, using the 'flash' principles but making it easier for people to take part. Over night appearences of random objects as an example... Dressing-up the city's statues, or dozens of chalked messages left on the pavement... That sort of thing! Plus more wierd, abstract, and pointless acts!!! In a way the events of the past few of weeks have given me a desire to carry-on with such Dadaist acts of pointlessness... We live in such a constricting world, we must keep the silliness alive!

4 August 27, 2003 11:30 PM Stephen

This sounds like it was the best yet. A queue!

Regimentation, pointlessness, satire of the 'hip' impulse and herd-instinct inherent in the FlashMob 'craze' (I take it that The Strokes are fashionable in the US now, 18 months too late), and a decent 'please disperse' signal.

The announcement that this was the penultimate NY Mob should have no bearing on other, ahem, territories. I would hope that whoever is behind the London events (ahem again) would take a note from the simplicity of this one, mind, and drop all the stuff revolving around selected leters of the alphabet, celphone calls, or clicking of one's fingers. None of the above can be heard in a crowd! Keep it visual!

5 August 27, 2003 11:32 PM Stephen

Oh, and did the Reading Festival thingummy actually happen?

6 August 30, 2003 08:09 PM MrEvil

The manchester one keeps flunking out at the last moment. Not through lack of interest but through the fact its been one large event after anouther over here (europride,manchester festival) which kind of dampens the whole event.

There is also the obsessive idea that the press should be kept out. Ok I dont want to see my ass on TV but the leaving it all to the last minute is fucking up the numbers as not everyone can get access to the net through the day.

Then we have the "DRAWING TO A CLOSE"; well it is getting to september, students go back to uni/college/work and it starts to get dark and cold and usually bloody wet. Not exactly flashmob season.

I do hope theres another flashmob up here as id hate to watch this fade into history as 2003 The year people were interesting for more then 3 seconds.

Regards.

MREVIL

7 September 11, 2003 10:41 PM popo

i would like to start somthing like this(flashmob) in south africa were do i begin