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atlanta announcing a new "mission" at Lenox Mall this weekend. Their last one was getting 70 people to freeze and stand still at Atlantic Station for 5 minutes.
First off, the post says that the first mission was "staged by Improv Everywhere in Atlanta." Will someone please try to explain how standing still for 5 minutes doing nothing can be considered improv?
Allow me to resurrect something I wrote about Flash mobs last year.
Flash Mobs were mostly a fad from around 2004 to 2005 or so. They have pretty much died out these days.
There were two kinds of people: participants and organizers.
Participants generally were involved because they thought it was fun, silly, and entertaining. They all stopped participating because they got fed up with...
Organizers. There were several kinds of organizers, but the one unifying characteristic was that they were annoying as hell.
1. Powertrippers. These people got off on controlling a group of people. They always wanted bigger, public flash mobs. They wanted them often. People stopped coming because they got sick of being treated like puppets or toys.
2. Militants. They were obsessed with the purity of the flash mob. They would develop odd rules like that all the activities had to be fundamentally pointless, or participants were not allowed to meet each other beforehand. People stopped going because it stopped being fun.
3. Art Psychos. They became obsessed with the meaning of the flash mob, and the artistic statement it made. They spent 5 seconds coming up with the idea for the activity and 5 weeks talking about the statement. People stopped coming because no one believes that 40 people fellating Twinkies at a bus stop is a valid statement about mans inhumanity to man.
4. Cause junkies. Decided all their flash mobs had to relate to some other cause. People left because they got annoyed with ideas like 100 people hugging a tree or a homeless person.
The group organizing this is called The Gobi Lumberjacks.1 These twatwaffles are in the larval stage. They are still just doing weird shit for the sake of being weird. It won't last. The organizers fragment onto some of the four personalities above, and the participants will get annoyed and stop coming.
Personally, I think if you are going to try to force your annoying fucking so-called-art on the public, I think the public should be able to fight back. I want to go to this event on Saturday with a bullhorn and loudly encourage the public: Ignore the idiotic wankery of these uncreative attention whores! They have no power if you don't pay attention to their stupidity!"
There's always the cop outside a crime scene saying "Nothing to see here! Move along!" Never has that been more true than here.
1. - Note to all improv groups. Your name is stupid. ALL improv group names are stupid. We forgive this in the case of talented groups like the Upright Citizens Brigade. Be funny and you get a free pass. Be not-funny and you are just a bunch of twits with a stupid name.
atlanta announcing a new "mission" at Lenox Mall this weekend. Their last one was getting 70 people to freeze and stand still at Atlantic Station for 5 minutes.First off, the post says that the first mission was "staged by Improv Everywhere in Atlanta." Will someone please try to explain how standing still for 5 minutes doing nothing can be considered improv?
Allow me to resurrect something I wrote about Flash mobs last year.
Flash Mobs were mostly a fad from around 2004 to 2005 or so. They have pretty much died out these days.
There were two kinds of people: participants and organizers.
Participants generally were involved because they thought it was fun, silly, and entertaining. They all stopped participating because they got fed up with...
Organizers. There were several kinds of organizers, but the one unifying characteristic was that they were annoying as hell.
1. Powertrippers. These people got off on controlling a group of people. They always wanted bigger, public flash mobs. They wanted them often. People stopped coming because they got sick of being treated like puppets or toys.
2. Militants. They were obsessed with the purity of the flash mob. They would develop odd rules like that all the activities had to be fundamentally pointless, or participants were not allowed to meet each other beforehand. People stopped going because it stopped being fun.
3. Art Psychos. They became obsessed with the meaning of the flash mob, and the artistic statement it made. They spent 5 seconds coming up with the idea for the activity and 5 weeks talking about the statement. People stopped coming because no one believes that 40 people fellating Twinkies at a bus stop is a valid statement about mans inhumanity to man.
4. Cause junkies. Decided all their flash mobs had to relate to some other cause. People left because they got annoyed with ideas like 100 people hugging a tree or a homeless person.
The group organizing this is called The Gobi Lumberjacks.1 These twatwaffles are in the larval stage. They are still just doing weird shit for the sake of being weird. It won't last. The organizers fragment onto some of the four personalities above, and the participants will get annoyed and stop coming.
Personally, I think if you are going to try to force your annoying fucking so-called-art on the public, I think the public should be able to fight back. I want to go to this event on Saturday with a bullhorn and loudly encourage the public: Ignore the idiotic wankery of these uncreative attention whores! They have no power if you don't pay attention to their stupidity!"
There's always the cop outside a crime scene saying "Nothing to see here! Move along!" Never has that been more true than here.
1. - Note to all improv groups. Your name is stupid. ALL improv group names are stupid. We forgive this in the case of talented groups like the Upright Citizens Brigade. Be funny and you get a free pass. Be not-funny and you are just a bunch of twits with a stupid name.
