flashmobs: people that desperately need a job/hobby.

I always thought a 'flash mob' was a loosely organized, large group of people that decided to show up some where and do something neat/cool/funny. Having most of your orchestra and choir just wander out into the street and play a well rehearsed piece doesnt really fit that.

/Still, very cool.

LumberJack: How many times does it have to be said..... If nearly the entire crowd is there waiting for it to happen, cell-phone cameras running, it's not a farking FLASH MOB. And the little girl who just stands there, parents nowhere in sight, nah, that wasn't staged.

/Flash Mob cynic

That.

"Hey, everyone, something waaaacky is going to occur here in about 15 minutes, so geeeeeeeet ready! Woooo!"

I don't care if it's fake, or an ad, or whatever. It's pretty damned awesome.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Two Dogs Farking: [images.wikia.com image 538x424]

Nice idea, but no way the sound was recorded from the street. Way too clean for that. Still, nice dub.

Holy shiat, dude, way to piss on a cool thing. And why? To prove you're not a rube or something, to try to impress imaginary chicks, what? It's a cool thing. Yeah, the sound may be enhanced or something, who cares?

The world doesn't need people who shiat on great things just to prove they can.

I beg your pardon - I thought this was fark, where bullshiat is called. The headline sold this as some kind of flashmob, which it clearly isn't. And it wasn't really that great, either, but if you liked it, then cool.

doglover: On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign "Som Sabadell" (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony OrchestraMy point was IT'S NOT A FLASHMOB AT ALL. Shouldn't even occur to people to call it thus. It's an orchestra pretending to be a flash mob for a bank's commercial.

Yes, okay, well, um, that was my point, which is why I said

Especially the flash mobs like this one which are spontaneously made to pimp a bank.

I wasn't able to include an air quotes tag around that, but they are there.

Toriko: I liked the bit where I realized that the dude in the stripey shirt wasn't just some wanker waving his arms around but actually the conductor.

Haha, I had the same reaction. "What a prick...oh wait."

RoyBatty: doglover: On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign "Som Sabadell" (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony OrchestraMy point was IT'S NOT A FLASHMOB AT ALL. Shouldn't even occur to people to call it thus. It's an orchestra pretending to be a flash mob for a bank's commercial.

Yes, okay, well, um, that was my point, which is why I said

Especially the flash mobs like this one which are spontaneously made to pimp a bank.

I wasn't able to include an air quotes tag around that, but they are there.

Not that it's a big deal...

I like the Bolero flash mob as well. Bolero lends itself to the slow build up a little better.

I'm just impressed all those strangers happened to know the words to that song and were singing along. It's not like it gets a lot of airplay anymore, not even on oldies stations. Maybe Spaniards are just really smart at music.

I got my 10 year old niece hooked on classical thanks to Ode To Joy (and Ave Maria). Set up my brothers surround sound speakers, plugged in my MP3 player to test, cranked the volume up. My niece was standing there beside me watching. Ran through Ave Maria followed by Ode To Joy. My niece was standing there with her mouth hanging open by the end saying "Wow!" Got a call a few days later from my brother saying I'd ruined her because "Now all she wants to listen to is that shiat you listen to." I just grinned smugly and ran off a copy of every classical piece I had and took it to my niece.

Bathia_Mapes: pudding7: Isn't that the song from Die Hard, when the bad guys opened the bank vault? Good stuff.

Now I'm going to have to IMDB and find out who did the soundtrack for that movie or who wrote that song.

j/k of course

It's Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and it was in the first Die Hard movie.

I honestly didn't know that. Thanks for removing a little bit of my ignorance today.

Nice find, subby. This got me looking for a good O Fortuna flash mob. Some decent ones, but while browsing all I found worth sharing on Fark was this.