Aren’t Flash Mobs Supposed to be Flash?
Irish Flash Mob
According to Wikipedia a flash mob is suppossed to be a sudden event.
is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails
Odd then that the “flash mob” that happened on Patrick Street in Cork City on Saturday was anything but.
I heard about it early on Friday while I was at a LAN with Brian and the lads who had known about it days in advance. In fact, it appears that everybody who was there heard about it way in advance as they turned out with cameras and camcorders at the ready to catch whatever might occur.
I wasn’t there myself, but the video captured by Corks Red FM (a local radio station) shows that people are obviously waiting around for this to happen and when it does happen it’s not some major event. It was appears to have little participation or participants, which the “mob” mostly just standing around waiting for somebody to do something.
If this flash mob was organized to get peoples attention it didn’t do a very good job. Based on the video if it was a firework then it had damp powder because when launched it never took off.
Flash mobs are a cool thing to bring interest and attention or even just for a laugh but sometimes I see a video of one like this and I just have to ask myself “why did they even bother”?
I applaud people for trying to organize these things but a bit more planning might have a gone a long way to making this a success.
According to the Facebook page “Let Mr. Blue Sky In” (C’mon blue skies in Cork? Are you kidding me?) was supposed to promoted the “arts in Cork”.
A Cork staple
Well, if this is the extent and ability that we have to promote, or the extent of support the arts have in Cork, then we are a bunch of uncultured neanderthals that can at best be soothed momentarily by the music.
They might have been better off trying to gain financial support and awareness by waiting until the nightclubs closed on Saturday night and publicly raffled off a “Doner Kebab and curry chip” (fries with curry sauce for the non-Irish).
I’m sure more than a few drunk adolescents would have paid to win that and if you could have gotten them to dance (I use the term very loosely) to the music then I’m sure you’d have had endless hours of footage to post to YouTube and Facebook to build awareness.
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