{"id":115,"date":"2009-09-17T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/09\/flash-mob-bage.html"},"modified":"2009-09-17T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T10:15:00","slug":"flash-mob-bage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/09\/flash-mob-bage.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash Mob-bage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\">Everyone&#8217;s talking about<\/span> (and watching) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/article\/oprahshow\/20090908-tows-flash-mob-dance\">Oprah\/Black Eyed Peas<\/a> flash mob event last week in Chicago. Which is pretty cool, if you haven&#8217;t seen it. (It&#8217;s not officially a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_mob\">flash mob<\/a>, though, since the mob is really supposed to show up, do something, and then disperse.) But anyway, lots of fun if you haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n<p><object data=\"http:\/\/play.dipdive.com\/i\/76361\" height=\"385\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/play.dipdive.com\/i\/76361\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/play.dipdive.com\/i\/76361\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kengrantde\">Ken Grant<\/a> engineered a promotional flash mob a couple of weeks ago in Delaware. It was a freeze-out. At the honk of a horn, the folks in on the gag froze in place for several minutes along a busy street.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7ZqW3xcqHLs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7ZqW3xcqHLs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>But my favorite kind of flash mob is the type perpetrated on a single person. These are hilarious. Here&#8217;s a clip of a several Japanese mobs doing an excellent job of completely freaking a person out.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cPYiS5ebGgk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cPYiS5ebGgk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Have any of you ever participated in a flash mob?<\/span> If so, spill the beans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s talking about (and watching) the Oprah\/Black Eyed Peas flash mob event last week in Chicago. Which is pretty cool, if you haven&#8217;t seen it. 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