Flash mob is the abbreviation of "flash movie" or "flash mob", a newly popular international hippie behavior, which can be regarded as a kind of short-lived performance art. Simply put: many people use the Internet or other means to do a series of specified songs, dances or other behaviors at a specified place, at a specified time, unexpectedly, and then quickly leave. "Flash mob" is purely for fun or worship and commemorative performance art, its main characteristics are unorganized, disciplined, only initiators without organizers, members are from the Internet, members basically do not know each other. It is now blossoming in the country in diverse forms.
Basic introduction Chinese name ：Flash Mob Foreign name ：Flash Mob Full name ：Flash Mob Category ：A short performance art Characteristics ：Organized spontaneous behavior Concepts, introduction, examples, Italy, Canada, Germany, Britain, China, the United States situation, the situation in Europe, the situation in Asia, China, the origins of the need to satisfy, Concepts Introduction Flash Mob is divided into "fast flash", "fast" and "fast". Flash mobs are categorized as either "flash mobs" or "flash movies". "A flash mob is a short performance art in which a large number of people gather in a single place to perform a unified dance or other specified action, or are simply photographed for documentation purposes. "A flash mob film is a film made by a professional song and dance artist, which is mainly used for online communication. It is difficult to film, and can be repeated many times to achieve the effect of the film, and has a wider circulation, and is often used in conjunction with public service or business. 1. The emergence of flash mobs was first seen in New York in 2000, and has since expanded to Europe and Asia. The flash mob first originated in March 2000 in Manhattan, New York, USA. At that time, an organizer named Bill called more than 400 people, in New York Times Square, Toys R Us, pilgrimage to a mechanical dinosaur, 5 minutes after the crowd suddenly and quickly left, flash mob is therefore famous. Flash mobs are a kind of urban fashion culture, a good-natured joke that modern people play with the world in the midst of their busy schedules. Most of them said that they would take the initiative to participate in the event if it was well-designed. Of course, there are some who take a conservative attitude for fear of causing misunderstanding. For example, in August 2003, some people initiated the first flash mob in Hong Kong by going to an electrical appliance store in Mong Kok at a specified time on a specified date and asking the clerk if there were any game consoles for sale (the store did not sell any game consoles), and then clapping and shouting in support of the idea as a group and then leaving on their own. However, on the day of the flash mob, the only flash mob participant was the initiator, a teenager, and on August 22, 2003, a group of expatriates suddenly held up paper towels and danced a ballet at McDonald's in Times Square, Causeway Bay, for one minute, before dispersing and leaving. The action is known as the first successful flash mob in Hong Kong. Flash mobs Other actions that have been proposed include shouting "I love Hong Kong" outside the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui and taking pictures of watermelons at a supermarket. Italy Pretend to buy a book: Rome was the first place in Europe to see flash mobs. on July 24, 2011, 300 people flocked to a library in 10 minutes to ask the librarians about books that didn't exist, and when the time was up, they clapped their hands together for 15 seconds and then dispersed. Canada: In early August, Toronto saw its first flash mob. At 6:30 p.m. that night, dozens of local flash mobs gathered outside a shopping mall at the junction of Central Street and Ellington Road to listen to the road leader's instructions on the spot, dozens of people stepped into the shopping mall's Toysrus toy store, dressed as frogs jumping around in the store. Germany Open umbrella jumping high: Berlin flash mob was first seen on July 30, 2011, the man who planned the street with colorful umbrellas, calling the presence of 75 people randomly jumping high, applauding or stretching their arms, spinning around. 6:00 pm on the evening of August 1 over 1:00 pm in Berlin, Germany, the streets of downtown Berlin, suddenly more than 40 people together with a cell phone, shouting "yes, yes, yes," and then began to applaud. "Then they started to applaud. UK Furniture Store Gathering: On the evening of August 7, 2011, a 40-year-old Londoner called for a British "flash mob" in the shopping district of London, about 200 people first classified according to their horoscope, to gather in different pubs, read carefully the instructions instructing them to "don't let the others see! "Thirteen minutes later, the flash mob went to a furniture store, where they were instructed to use their cell phones to call their friends and praise the furniture in the store. Just as the manager of the store was delighted, the people quickly dispersed in front of him. China Action frame: April 1, 2011, April Fool's Day, organized by the Xiamen Polytechnic Li and Zhang "flash mob" activities in Xiamen Zhongshan Road, 8:00 p.m., suddenly a loud whistle attracted the attention of many passers-by. More than a hundred people gathered at the sound of the whistle, wearing a variety of masks, some wearing white masks, some put on the kind of bandit masks in "Let the Bullets Fly", and some wearing skull masks. They spread out in a rectangle based on the whistler, and instantly settle into a statue pose and stand still. United States scenario First operation: prior to the first operation, Bill sent an e-mail to 50 friends inviting them to meet him at a retail store in lower Manhattan. However, due to the lack of any official disclosure of the event, plus the fact that someone tipped off the police, the event also attracted six police officers and a police car. As a result, the event was not a success. In the aftermath, Bill concluded and was forced to take measures to keep the event a secret: participants were asked to meet at a certain location before organizers distributed flyers stating the exact location of the target. Flash Mob Operation 2: The second operation targeted Macy's flagship Manhattan store. Previously, the event organizer only notified when and where to meet. After receiving orders from the organizers, about 200 people poured into Macy's 9th floor home décor store, then clustered around a $10,000 rug and commented on it. One participant in the event later told reporters, "We were told that we ****ing lived together in a big, old hardware store in the suburbs. We indicated to the salesman that we wished to purchase a carpet to our liking." After about 10 minutes or so, the group suddenly dispersed and disappeared, confusing the clerk. Action #3: Participants met at New York's Grand Central Station, drove into the Hyatt Regency Hotel, took the escalator to the mezzanine level, and then clapped loudly for 15 seconds in front of jaw-dropping guests and waiters. Operation 4: The operation targeted an upscale shoe store in the trendy Soho neighborhood, where participants were dressed as tourists who had taken a bus from the neighboring Maryland countryside to see the world in New York City. OPERATION FIVE: Held on July 24, 2011, the action saw a large group of flash mobs descend on an Irish pub on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hanging around a jukebox and trying their best to act as if nothing was wrong. One first-timer anxiously whispered to a bystander, "Are you a flash mob too?" "Shhhh..." the other person just nodded knowingly, blinked, and laughed nervously. At this point, one of the organizers of the flash mob project appeared, quietly handing out instruction slips to the group: the meeting place - the hill across from the National Museum of History in Central Park. At 7:18 p.m., more than 300 participants arrived at the designated location and followed the instructions to the letter, in order to perform a silent bird song in praise of nature. Before departure, they had all matched their watches on a time zone site. Event #6: Over 500 FLASH MOB members gathered at a large hotel, pretended to be reunited, and then slept on the floor in the lobby for a few minutes before leaving at breakneck speed. At an event in early August, more than 200 people pretended to stand in line at a bookstore in the U.S. to pay with their credit cards, then suddenly clapped and cheered together, leaving onlookers with their jaws on the floor. Bill said afterward that "the events since the second one started have been very successful." In an interview with CNN, he said, "For some people it's just fun, some people think it's social, others think it's political. Myself, I look at it from an aesthetic point of view, and I love to see so many people coming together from nowhere." Europe Since then, the flash mob trend has spread via the interwebs to London, England, and then swept across the continent. Flash mobs have appeared in Rome, Italy, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany. Taking the activity held in Rome, Italy as an example, after the participants received the e-mail, they flocked to the designated bookstore, and within just ten minutes, the bookstore lobby was flooded with more than three hundred flash mobs. As soon as the designated time arrived, all participants applauded loudly, and the time did not exceed 15 seconds in the middle. But local residents passing by said, "The event was so surreal that it was hard not to wonder if they were dreaming when they saw this." The event *** lasted no more than 1 minute, and after 2 minutes, all the flash mob had dispersed. After everything had returned to normal, all that was left for the bookstore staff was consternation. On July 30, 2011, in Berlin, 100 people danced in the street with colorful umbrellas and then flashed away, and on August 7, 2011, in London, 200 people gathered in a furniture store to praise the furniture and then flashed away. In Rome, more than 300 people flooded a music bookstore at the same time, asking the clerk to find books or authors that didn't exist. Asia Similarly, a storm of flash mobs began to sweep through major Asian cities in August, when dozens of expatriates burst into a fast-food restaurant in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, at around 9 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2011, and danced a ballet with toilet paper in their hands, calling out softly for about a minute before stopping and scattering at once, to the consternation of the staff and patrons in the restaurant. Taiwan's "flash mob" can be said to be Asia's largest group of people, there are currently at least five "flash mob" related websites on the Internet in Taiwan. Among them, the "Taiwan flash mob" established on August 17 is the largest, currently has more than 400 members, participants claimed to "flash mob concept to promote the whole of Taiwan". 2:00 p.m. on August 27, members of the group in front of the Taichung Guangsan Department Store, performing offline nonsensical performance. In front of the Guangsan Department Store in Taichung, members of the group performed an offline and nonsensical activity, collectively facing the Guangsan Plaza and shouting "Mars is coming! and then quickly disbanded. One day in China, a group of people from the 70's suddenly gathered in the center of the city square, about a hundred people in typical hiphop attire; cell phones held up, heads tilted to the sky, muttering to themselves, and for a while the square was filled with all kinds of dialects, with Guangzhou dialect, Hakka dialect, and Chaoshan dialect, which was a great novelty. Suddenly a loud shout: "we love pineapple, just as Guangzhou love fashion", one after another, one after another, and finally became a "big shout", this process lasted more than 3 minutes and 33 seconds; to be shouted after the end of the clatter, the crowd flew around! Scattered, the police were caught off guard, blocking not, the whole square is very chaotic. This is a third-year university students in Guangzhou Topku published online a fake action, it is fully consistent with the flash mob standard: a specific time, a specific location of the sudden appearance, strange action and sudden disappearance. However. This is just one type of flash mob action; there are also dances and freeze-frames that have this type. Flashmob Origin Flashmob is the Chinese translation of the English FlashMob, which first originated in the famous movie directed by Stephen Chow, "the expert of the whole thing" and "Shaolin Soccer" in the funny clips, the first flash mob action abroad was in May 2003 in Manhattan, New York, USA. People only know it as the original organizer named Bill (Bill), who describes himself as a "social worker". Bill for the organization of activities specifically set up a group called "Mob Project (flash mob project)". "The Mob Project itself has a distinctive feature - participants should be aware that some people have already accepted the invitation. There is no website dedicated to the event, and there are no advertisements in any of the local newspapers - they just invite each other via email, and almost no one knows each other in real life as virtual friends. In his first letter to the network, Bill said, "I'm writing this letter because it was my idea, but that doesn't make me the organizer of the event. In my personal opinion, the person who plans the event before launching the email can be the organizer of the event. Events should be organized by people who know what they are about". To meet the needs of the "flash mob" activities, some experts believe that the use of such a form of performance art may have a relatively strong "risk-taking mentality", dare to try, exercise their courage, courage, want to be the "first one to eat crabs". Crab-eaters", so that they are no longer introverted, more confident. To relieve their own pressure, but also to send joy to the people around them. This kind of behavior complies with relevant laws and regulations, does not harm others, and at the same time should pay attention to safety. In modern society, people's internal communication is reduced in the background, the emergence of "flash mob" can be viewed from three perspectives. Firstly, on the surface, it is a way to express oneself in front of the public through "nonsense" games to exercise one's courage and guts; secondly, it is a way to relieve the pressure of life; thirdly, young people in modern society often feel a sense of "worthlessness and meaninglessness", that is, they are not alive. Thirdly, young people in modern society often feel a sense of "worthlessness and meaninglessness", i.e., living without vitality. Young people are full of energy, but very often there is nowhere to consume it, and flash mob movement provides a platform to vent their youthful emotions, so it has become popular. People are born with a sense of self-expression, and a baby's cry is also a need to attract the attention of the people around it, and a need to be "responded to" by the people around it. The flash mobs strongly hope that through ***, the ultimate goal is to "influence the people around them" and attract their attention. They can "return" to society, do some personal hobbies and social good things, such as graffiti, street dance and street performance combination, so more young people and the public accept, and participate in, but never to the premise of not illegal recreational activities, do not participate in political activities.