Tag Archives: flash mobbing

Clip description: Dustin arrived at the Home Depot in Salt Lake City thinking he was there to help his roommate pick out some lighting for a party. When he was taken to the lumber aisle, what he found waiting for him was a mob of friends and family as his marriage proposal unfolded to the song, “Somebody Loves You” by …

The BBC reports: Flamenco flash mobs – seemingly spontaneous dance and song performances – have been taking place in banks not just in Seville, but all over Andalusia, causing short, if amusing disruptions to the working day. Some involve just one or two dancers, performing silently in front of bemused customers and clerks. Others can be made up of several …

(Via – Towleroad)

(Via Towleroad)

Clip description: Mystery over the SEVEN-MILE long ‘super mega-pod’ of 100,000 dolphins spotted off the coast of San Diego. A group of over 100,000 dolphins spotted off the coast of San Diego caused a spectacle for nature watchers as they traveled together in an enormous pack. ‘They were coming from all directions, you could see them from as far as …

More photos at The Advocate.

Clip description: “On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent’s house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He ‘wanted to play her a song.’ What she got instead was the world’s first Live …

Here’s an energetic and well choreographed Moscow flash mob. I don’t know the reason (anyone read Russian?), I just wanted to use my headline.(Tipped by JMG reader Jim)

Today in Manhattan: Gay flash mob at JC Penney. I’ll be there! Facebook event page.

I’m so sorry to have missed this.

Pretty standard flash-mobbing right up to 3:30.(Tipped by Dan Savage)

About a hundred gay barbarians performed a flash mob dance today outside of Ladybird Bachmann’s “pray away the gay” clinic.

On Thursday night, I happened upon the tail-end of an incident outside the SEIU party in which a man was arrested for allegedly threatening Muslim women. I saw the man being handcuffed and though little more of it until tonight when about a dozen headscarf-wearing Muslim women (and their allies) “flash-mobbed” the lobby of the Minneapolis Hilton in reaction to …

Clip description: “More than 2,000 people from Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, gathered at Discovery Green in the heart of Houston to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The purpose was to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ in a powerful and celebratory way.” Jeebus loves Auto-Tune!(Source)

(Tipped by JMG reader MikeInBC)

In mid-December a couple staged a flash mob wedding at Boston’s Prudential Center. Stick around for the vows at 4:00 when the pastor includes gay couples as those deserving of marriage and love.

Featuring local drag stars Joyce Maynge and Auntie Mavis. Huge number of participants by the end and they even use a snippet of my favorite Kylie track.

Yet another cornball cheesy corporate cash-in on a years past its due date meme. Agreed? Well, fuck you. It’s been a shitty week and this made my grinchy heart hurt. (Tipped by JMG reader Jerry)

Clip description: On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation’s “Random Acts of Culture” at Macy’s in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ – the world’s largest pipe organ – the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community …

Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: Several hundred LGBT New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Terminal during evening rush hour on Friday, October 8 to conduct what organizers called a “Flash Mob: Homophobia Kills Die-In” in the center of the main concourse of the nation’s busiest transit hub. Several minutes after 6, activist Alan Bounville brought his fingers to …