Flash Mob

Flashmob WTF? Bill from New York in invented Flashmobs (Fm) in the Summer of 2003. Flashmobs are a coordinated through a set of instructions which are transmitted either through email, website, podcast. Fm’s were initially intended to be a fun ‘pointless’ way to interact with others and society.

Bill from New York in invented Flashmobs (Fm) in the Summer of 2003.

Flashmobs are a coordinated through a set of instructions which are transmitted either through email, website, podcast.

Fm’s were initially intended to be a fun ‘pointless’ way to interact with others and society.

Flashmob WTF? Flashmobs, with their abbreviated, nonsensical performances, are also a mix of fun, rebellion, collective action, and art. Experts say they're a symptom of an increasingly alienated, increasingly wired, society. And although today's mobs strive to stay silly, some say they're a glimpse of future crowds - which could be more purposeful, and more powerful.

Flashmobs, with their abbreviated, nonsensical performances, are also a mix of fun, rebellion, collective action, and art.

Experts say they're a symptom of an increasingly alienated, increasingly wired, society. And although today's mobs strive to stay silly, some say they're a glimpse of future crowds - which could be more purposeful, and more powerful.

Flashmob WTF? "If the pattern [of mobs] catches on, it's plainly going to be adopted by both pranksters and political activists," says Clay Shirky, head professor of Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University. I intend to create a ‘flash mob’ with the intent to *create positive environmental change* within the Wellington sphere. Hopefully this will have a ripple/butterfly effect.

"If the pattern [of mobs] catches on, it's plainly going to be adopted by both pranksters and political activists," says Clay Shirky, head professor of Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University.

I intend to create a ‘flash mob’ with the intent to *create positive environmental change* within the Wellington sphere. Hopefully this will have a ripple/butterfly effect.

Inspiration Baudrillard believed the simulacra that society has become so reliant on that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based. If society according to Baudrillard has replaced all reality and meaning into a set of signs and symbols how can I best use symbols to connect society with the realities of our current environmental situation?...

Baudrillard believed the simulacra that society has become so reliant on that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based.

If society according to Baudrillard has replaced all reality and meaning into a set of signs and symbols how can I best use symbols to connect society with the realities of our current environmental situation?...

Latest investigations Documentation through photography, of the inner city ‘tagging’ and local ‘symbols’ of social expression, to gleam what forms of language/style colours appeal to various markets(ahead). Spoke with ‘Boombox’ owner about the varieties and intent of graffiti. Made a time to meet to discuss in greater depth street art expression... Visited ‘MankyChops’ Art Gallery to document local exhibition of graffiti artist Sole. Contacted to initiate interview. Researched recent articles in latest Pulp magazine, Sideroom.com magazine Winter 07, ‘The Peeps’ magazine, online and further discussed with owner of ‘RexRoyale’ to glean more local information.

Documentation through photography, of the inner city ‘tagging’ and local ‘symbols’ of social expression, to gleam what forms of language/style colours appeal to various markets(ahead).

Spoke with ‘Boombox’ owner about the varieties and intent of graffiti. Made a time to meet to discuss in greater depth street art expression...

Visited ‘MankyChops’ Art Gallery to document local exhibition of graffiti artist Sole. Contacted to initiate interview. Researched recent articles in latest Pulp magazine, Sideroom.com magazine Winter 07, ‘The Peeps’ magazine, online and further discussed with owner of ‘RexRoyale’ to glean more local information.

Arranged meeting with Brenda Wallace next week to discuss sponsorship. She is an advocate of Open Source software, organizer of Wellingtons ‘GirlGeekDinners’, Agile and other Wellington BarCamps and a lovely uber-geek of Wellington. Used social-software (twitter) to learn locals graffiti favorites. Used social-software to a generate and advertise a local gathering @ the recent ‘Petcha Kucha’ @ the Wellington Art Gallery. Experimented w stenciling a QR Code unfortunately-it turned out as a giant black blob-more experimentation is needed. Created an online ticker @ envirotainment.net/mob/ as a prelim test to direct people to flash mob instructions. Experimented with aggregating geo-locational data in pipes.yahoo.com with the possibility to layer my final mob-site with other environmental events going on throughout Wellington city. Investigations continued...

Arranged meeting with Brenda Wallace next week to discuss sponsorship. She is an advocate of Open Source software, organizer of Wellingtons ‘GirlGeekDinners’, Agile and other Wellington BarCamps and a lovely uber-geek of Wellington.

Used social-software (twitter) to learn locals graffiti favorites.

Used social-software to a generate and advertise a local gathering @ the recent ‘Petcha Kucha’ @ the Wellington Art Gallery.

Experimented w stenciling a QR Code unfortunately-it turned out as a giant black blob-more experimentation is needed.

Created an online ticker @ envirotainment.net/mob/ as a prelim test to direct people to flash mob instructions.

Experimented with aggregating geo-locational data in pipes.yahoo.com with the possibility to layer my final mob-site with other environmental events going on throughout Wellington city.

BoomBox The owner was kind enough to let me photograph the Staffroom Stensils. Created by ‘Gosip’

Boombox

I didn’t quite have the balls to graffiti unlike Coyotte yet...

A piece of art which sold immediately when up for sale in Boombox. Ironic use of the corporate name ‘tag’ for painting on canvas...

...and quite popular with artists who view the urban environment as their canvas

Whilst Wellington graffiti hunting, I noticed a disproportionate number of these ‘barcoded’ parking tickets which had been layered with further personal ‘tagging’.

Ironically tagged?

Unnecessary tagging?

Street Iconography More in line with my stensil/QR Code ideas

‘ Manky Chops’ have an exhibition on at the moment of ‘Sole’. He creates for RexRoyale, Mighty Markets, Music Artsits and Festivals, exhibits... Sole“...started off stenciling the streets as a medium to express certain opinions or ideas about the world....creating stencils that consisted of more and more layers that just got bigger and bigger. Recently I have started creating full pieces on paper in the studio, and then pasting them up in the streets.”

‘ Manky Chops’ have an exhibition on at the moment of ‘Sole’. He creates for RexRoyale, Mighty Markets, Music Artsits and Festivals, exhibits...

Sole“...started off stenciling the streets as a medium to express certain opinions or ideas about the world....creating stencils that consisted of more and more layers that just got bigger and bigger. Recently I have started creating full pieces on paper in the studio, and then pasting them up in the streets.”

Pipes-geolocation mapping tests. eg.

Created test mob-site see: envirotainment.net/mob/ see: envirotainment.net/mob/