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Sunday, October 15, 2006
10:44:00 AM EDT
Hearing All The Love in the World -- Nine inch Nails
You remember "flash mobs" -- a bunch of folks coming together, seemingly at random, to do something goofy -- and now here's the next step in the evolution: "Mobile Clubbing," in which hundreds of people suddenly start dancing in public places:
Any worries about feeling self-conscious were obliterated by having your favourite music turned up sound-system-loud and by the fact that there were hundreds of others doing the same thing. I assumed that everyone was dancing to the same music as me - I'll keep that detail secret - but they could have been rocking out to Hendrix, Shostakovich or James Blunt. It really was like being in a nightclub - until you took off your headphones and saw that all these people were gyrating, smiling and jumping in virtual silence.
Mobile clubbing is an offshoot of flash-mobbing, a fad that was predicated on its ingenious pointlessness. The point of mobile clubbing is that an activity normally reserved for special occasions and places - parties, nightclubs - infiltrates daily life so thoroughly as to be indistinguishable from it. It has the guerrilla quality of illegal raves but is totally legal.
Wacky. But also kind of cool.
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10:44:00 AM EDT
Hearing All The Love in the World -- Nine inch Nails
Those Crazy Kids
You remember "flash mobs" -- a bunch of folks coming together, seemingly at random, to do something goofy -- and now here's the next step in the evolution: "Mobile Clubbing," in which hundreds of people suddenly start dancing in public places:
Any worries about feeling self-conscious were obliterated by having your favourite music turned up sound-system-loud and by the fact that there were hundreds of others doing the same thing. I assumed that everyone was dancing to the same music as me - I'll keep that detail secret - but they could have been rocking out to Hendrix, Shostakovich or James Blunt. It really was like being in a nightclub - until you took off your headphones and saw that all these people were gyrating, smiling and jumping in virtual silence.
Mobile clubbing is an offshoot of flash-mobbing, a fad that was predicated on its ingenious pointlessness. The point of mobile clubbing is that an activity normally reserved for special occasions and places - parties, nightclubs - infiltrates daily life so thoroughly as to be indistinguishable from it. It has the guerrilla quality of illegal raves but is totally legal.
Wacky. But also kind of cool.
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Sounds like fun. People love to watch musicals, people singing and dancing in the streets ala - Singing In The Rain. So why not today's sounds just a new twist on an oldl theme under God's skies.....Sandi
10/17/06 2:48 PM
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