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Flash crowds as performance art

An outfit in New York are organising spontaneous flash crowds by email and mobile phone, as a performance art event of sorts. This works by large numbers of participants meeting around a preordained location at a specified time, hanging around for 10 minutes and then disappearing, whilst bystanders try to figure out what happened. Except that last time, one do-gooder dobbed them in to the police, who decided to intervene (you never know, this sort of thing could be cover for a terrorist atrocity or a jewel heist or something). (via bOING bOING)

There are 3 comments on "Flash crowds as performance art":

Posted by: lisa
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Thu Jun 19 05:39:24 2003

and then there were santas...

http://www.babyhans.com/santacon_2002/ http://tanman.javayogi.com/pics/02/santacon/ http://thestormriders.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=santacon2002

see also: santarchy

Posted by: lisa
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Thu Jun 19 05:44:25 2003

oh and when one writes or says "flash crowds", perhaps it might behoove the authors to be more specific with the appropriate definition of "flash".

i was expecting mass nudity... :/

Posted by: Graham
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Thu Jun 19 08:43:51 2003

Oh yeah, the Cacophony Society. Must get cracking on Flat-Earth links list...

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