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I just love the concept of the Flash Mob. Some of them can be stupid but many make me smile. I love to watch the surprise and happiness of the audience. They just seem so pure.

So I've decided to share the ones I really enjoy as they come along.

Copenhagen Central Station
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrEk06XXaAw&fea ... r_embedded

Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k


Orangutan Flash
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOevBgqY_U&feature=related
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LOL!! :lol: DON'T GET ME STARTED lorin!!!! i LOVE flash mobs!!

here's a couple of my favs

Supermarket

i think handel would dig this!

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Another good group is "Improv-Everywhere" and posted some neat mob scenes on U Tube.
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I love the Handel one, Lucimay! My daughter showed it to me a while back.

I also enjoyed these flash mobs which were done in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, believe it or not:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdxlCT99quk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY2wqltqJII&feature=share
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ok I wonder if you can see a three (maybe a fourth) famous people in this mob. I saw them immediately.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo&ob=av3e
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Those are great! :lol:

I had a pillow fight erupt around me one strange day on the high street here no youtube of it though :(
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
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Love it, love it, love it. Bolero was fantastic, and Beethoven's 9th. I think I saw the Handel somewhere else, perhaps on here.

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Iolanthe wrote: I think I saw the Handel somewhere else, perhaps on here.

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Post by lorin »

This is an interesting twist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYnd5JRu86E
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Post by lorin »

ok this may keep me living in nyc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG7F9G4AEak&feature=fvwp&NR=1
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The Hallelujah Chorus flash mob seems to be becoming a Christmas tradition. An awesome one, if you ask me!
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I love some of those. I wish I could catch one live.

I happened to be in book store yesterday, saw Laura Ingraham's book, don't remember the name. Read the back, and one of her lines was about flash mobs, and how they were stupid. They should get out of her malls and grocery aisles and join local music club (or something like that). I thought at the time, what a loser. Then I watched these links, and most brought tears to my eyes, and I think, who would actually get upset at these things? I've paid 40-70 bucks to listen to a symphony, if I were surprised while shopping, and got to see one for free, I'd think it was one of the most blessed days of my life. How sad she would be upset.

Maybe it was all humor tho, I don't know the woman.

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I love you for appreciating them like that. So much of spontaneity is missing in our lives. I think that's what I love most about them. Just a happy moment, pure and fleeting.
Cybrweez wrote:I love some of those. I wish I could catch one live.

I happened to be in book store yesterday, saw Laura Ingraham's book, don't remember the name. Read the back, and one of her lines was about flash mobs, and how they were stupid. They should get out of her malls and grocery aisles and join local music club (or something like that). I thought at the time, what a loser. Then I watched these links, and most brought tears to my eyes, and I think, who would actually get upset at these things? I've paid 40-70 bucks to listen to a symphony, if I were surprised while shopping, and got to see one for free, I'd think it was one of the most blessed days of my life. How sad she would be upset.

Maybe it was all humor tho, I don't know the woman.

Thanks for all the links.
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Post by lorin »

flash mob of a different kind. Great!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=shC016PnxPs
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I looked for you in that one, lorin...shame you were not shown on-camera. While I have no specific knowledge, I have complete faith you would have put them all to shame.
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Post by lorin »

beautiful! That's a whole lot different from the Woolworths I remember as a kid.
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Not exactly a "flash mob," but nicely done group lipdub.
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