A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Tim Groseclose ·
December 20, 2011 at 3:20am
Here is something to brighten your holiday season.
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Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
I know a couple of people that were in this actually - they had a lot of fun making it!
May '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
haha, I was all ready to be angry before that guy in the Security jacket started singing. False alarm.
Jun '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Another Minnesota music treasure associated with Christmas: The Steele Family
http://www.mnvideovault.org/index.php?id=16482&select_index=4&popup=yes
(starts with talking, but they eventually get down to business)
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Sheer delight! Thanks for posting.
Like Aaron, by the way, I fell for it, starting to feel cross with that security guy. Until....
May '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Peter Robinson:
Like Aaron, by the way, I fell for it, starting to feel cross with that security guy. Until....
You and I might be prone to glass-half-empty thinking, but at least we keep looking for a refill.
Jun '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
I also was ready to jump the security guy. What a great head fake.
Dec '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Excellent!
Unrelated to this student led project, but Knight Arts has a running series of classical flash mobs called "Random Acts of Culture" which are really quite good.
I can't remember if this Random Act of Culture was posted here before on not, but just in case:
Random Act of Culture - "Hallelujah"
Random Act of Culture - "O Fortuna"
All of the Random Acts of Culture can be viewed at the Knight Arts website (there are a lot of them).
Not to take anything away from the OP's post, I just thought the two were kind of related, and I never get tired of listening to them.
Edited on December 20, 2011 at 6:09amApr '11
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
I'm a sucker for people breaking out into spontaneous song and dance. It is a deliberate and public act meant to instill joy and happiness in people. We have a word for doing the opposite (terrorism). Why don't we have a word for this much more preferable use of human energy.
In case you haven't see it here is the first Flash Mob video I saw, and it blew my mind.
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
A question for you audio-video types: Did they have 30 cameras on this thing or did they do multiple takes and a put it all together later?
Aug '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
Definitely multiple cameras, although it's possible there were multiple takes, as this was clearly not a flash mob in the usual sense. It was wonderful, though.
May '10
Re: A Heart-Warming Flash Mob at the University of Minnesota
This is wonderful!
Yeah, it looks like there's an enormous number of camera angles. Are there as many cameras as there are singers? Nah, they'd be tripping all over themselves. Those aren't handheld camera shots, they're completely smooth, there's no wobbling.
I think I can spot the photographers (among all the iPhones!). Let's see, there's the lady in the red/orange sweater near the entrance with a camera on a monopod. And blue sweatshirt guy with the steadicam is running all around the area.