Silent Raves

[romafan]

Do people know about these things? I thought the idea sounded kinda cool, but I was assuming that everyone would be listening to the same music. Turns out they all just show up at the same place and start dancing to whatever is on their individual ipods/personal stereos. Then it seems sort of silly.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/ny...yt&oref=slogin

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by romafan

Do people know about these things? I thought the idea sounded kinda cool, but I was assuming that everyone would be listening to the same music. Turns out they all just show up at the same place and start dancing to whatever is on their individual ipods/personal stereos. Then it seems sort of silly.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/ny...yt&oref=slogin

it sounds dumb, but it's not a real rave unless everyone's on drugs, so who knows...

 

[SoCal2NYC]

My friend and I were going to walk by after work the other day. Good thing we didn't.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

it sounds dumb, but it's not a real rave unless everyone's on drugs, so who knows...

I've to raves, I wasn't on drugs. I was probably the only one.

Jon.

 

[MetroStyles]

I don't know why, but this strikes me as extremely obnoxious.

 

[Thomas]

...group isolation???

...I want to interact with people, but I want to provide my own soundtrack and not have to worry about accomodating anyone else who likes anything different or actually wants to speak to me. How strange.

 

[chronoaug]

Flash mobs have been around for awhile. Even more so now with the popularity of youtube. There have been a few on uf campus during my stay here.

 

[v0rtex]

I went to something like this at the Glastonbury festival in the UK (one of the world's largest, longest running music festivals)... they gave you wireless headphones on the way in to the 'silent rave' tent and a couple of hundred people were dancing around. It was quite surreal to remove the headphones and watch everyone moving in unison despite there being no music playing.

Everyone listening to different music kind of defeats the point, unless the point is to highlight how there is no longer common ground or unity or progressive movement in the music scene as there's simply too much choice. That might be reading too much into it though.

 

[SoCal2NYC]

Originally Posted by chronoaug

Flash mobs have been around for awhile. Even more so now with the popularity of youtube. There have been a few on uf campus during my stay here.

CSI: Miami had one on a golf course.

 

[macuser3of5]

Only for hipster eunuchs.

 

[chronoaug]

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

CSI: Miami had one on a golf course.

The show? I don't watch it but how did that fit in to a murder mystery show?


The flash mobs i've seen on campus that were really big was a silent dance party and a version of the "Bang!" commercial xbox did awhile back.

uf flash mob


original (banned) commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Kxm...eature=related

 

[SoCal2NYC]

The guy who organized the mob was trying to cover up a crime or something so hundreds of kids came out to the greens and threw golf balls everywhere or something.

 

[dl20]

they look like a bunch of dweeds and dorks

dl

 

[Epaulet]

I heard about this on NPR. It was first organized by a teenager from the UK.

I can't say that I would have enjoyed doing this, but you've got to credit the Facebook generation for getting things done. A NY Times writeup is pretty good!

 

[romafan]

Like I said, I thought the idea sounded kind of cool (as long as they weren't disrupting anything), but only if everyone was dancing to the same music, otherwise the idea falls way short. The Facebook generation should be able to take it one step further and get everyone dancing to the same song (hopefully not rap).......