Althouse: "Hallelujah Chorus" flashmob fiasco.

२१ डिसेंबर, २०१०

"Hallelujah Chorus" flashmob fiasco.

"... as they burst into song, there were reports that the building's floor began to move and creak, and witnesses reported hearing popping sounds."

४० टिप्पण्या:

Revenant म्हणाले...: It seems odd to call a flashmob chorus "impromptu".; २१/१२/१०, १०:३८ PM
Skyler म्हणाले...: Sounds like harmonic halleluia resonance.; २१/१२/१०, १०:३८ PM
shirley elizabeth म्हणाले...: I guess this is what people do now in place of caroling. I don't think I'd mind if were so trendy.; २१/१२/१०, १०:४४ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Do any of us really care where they are...long as they aren't serving on our jury?; २१/१२/१०, १०:५२ PM
reader_iam म्हणाले...: That'll larn'em not to perform [even that part of] Handel's "Messiah" in the wrong season.; २१/१२/१०, १०:५२ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Sadly, reader...

There ain't much learnin' done these days.

We got sweaters and bikinis when we don't don our seasonal skin.; २१/१२/१०, १०:५९ PM
Peter Hoh म्हणाले...: In her report about the original "Hallelujah Chorus" flashmob (in Canada), Gretchen Carlson warned us that "they" probably wouldn't allow this kind of thing in a mall in the U.S.; २१/१२/१०, ११:२१ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: This is why man invented Auto Tune.; २१/१२/१०, ११:२६ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: The plan was to go around the food court seven times... with their hands raised, singing and sounding a trumpet.; २१/१२/१०, ११:३१ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: "This is why man invented Auto Tune."

Auto-tune.... a creation of humanity, Lem?

Or was it merely a few guys getting together doing cool things without understanding their cool thing was about to work, and then become a verb?; २२/१२/१०, १:३३ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; २२/१२/१०, ६:०४ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: These Christianist Worship Mobs are insulting all Asians in the crowd, who feel left out because they cannot pronounce Hallelujah.; २२/१२/१०, ६:१८ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: The flashmob of our Procrastinator's Chorus has been rescheduled.; २२/१२/१०, ६:३८ AM
Kylos म्हणाले...: You're going to have to explain your prejudice against these carolers, Penny – or is this some joke I'm too dense to figure out?; २२/१२/१०, ६:४४ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Whodathunk that cellphone technology could turn 21st century humans into a pack of wildebeests?

Was it the Devo App?; २२/१२/१०, ६:५४ AM
Kev म्हणाले...: (the other kev)

I'm betting it was all a clever (if unwitting) distraction and when the merchants come back, they'll find all their stuff stolen.

Humbug.; २२/१२/१०, ७:३६ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Kylos, agreed. I think it's really cool. I would love to see one live.; २२/१२/१०, ८:०१ AM
AllenS म्हणाले...: I would like to get together with a bunch of paratroopers, go to the University of Madison, and at the top of our lungs, sing Blood on the Risers.; २२/१२/१०, ८:१७ AM
David म्हणाले...: It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.; २२/१२/१०, ८:२८ AM
Unknown म्हणाले...: AllenS said...

I would like to get together with a bunch of paratroopers, go to the University of Madison, and at the top of our lungs, sing Blood on the Risers.

They'd probably have you all arrested for violating their free speech code.

EV "mence" 2 or more male mouses.; २२/१२/१०, ८:३२ AM
Daniel Fielding म्हणाले...: Talking about structures that might collapse, I worry sometimes if the student section of Camp Randall Stadium would fall from all the Badger fans jumping simultaneously in tune to the song they play on the loudspeakers when th e Badgers score or a RB gets a long run.

Wolverine letterman and alum here.; २२/१२/१०, ८:४१ AM
garage mahal म्हणाले...: @Daniel Fielding
Jump Around. It's it's at the end of the 3rd quarter.; २२/१२/१०, ८:५६ AM
MadisonMan म्हणाले...: Flashmobs are so last year.; २२/१२/१०, ८:५६ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Sounds like the sort of thing that might happen here if all of MUL's sockpuppets show up at the same time.; २२/१२/१०, ८:५९ AM
I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...: Peter- you sound like you could be on the Media Matters payroll and assigned to monitor the big and bad Fox News.; २२/१२/१०, ९:०५ AM
former law student म्हणाले...: The Roseville Galleria is still trying to recover from the arson fire a slacker youth set there in October. Claiming that his sister had been abducted by aliens, he used chemicals he had stolen from his grandmother to set fire to the GameStop, causing $6.5 million in damages to the Penneys/Macy's wing of the mall.; २२/१२/१०, ९:१५ AM
I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...: I remember my father saying the military warned the troops "don't march in step when on a bridge" as it could cause a bridge collapse.; २२/१२/१०, ९:१७ AM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: The performance brought down the house...almost.

Someone needs to organize such an event with suicide bombers and get it to go viral. The world could take a breath.; २२/१२/१०, ९:३२ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Flashmob then smashed mob.; २२/१२/१०, ९:५१ AM
chuckR म्हणाले...: Buildings and bridges are built for a certain level of load. Pack in enough people and you exceed that load. The worst load for a bridge is the day they let people walk across it. The 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate bridge, planners figured 50k people would show up - 800k actually came to celebrate. The guesstimate loading was 2 1/2x the design load but that still provided a theoretical 2.5x safety factor. Nonetheless, a fun time was not had - claustrophobia, bridge swaying in the wind, etc.
Bonus, if you can get people to jump at the resonant frequency of the structure, even worse.

wv - lortico - dunno, somehow related to portico?; २२/१२/१०, ९:५१ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Hipster youth secretly longing for meaning and tradition nearly bring down the house in an ironic display of belonging against the dark soulless forces of material consumerism and holiday mall shopping.; २२/१२/१०, ९:५६ AM
Known Unknown म्हणाले...: I think flashmobs should live up to their names and show us some ta tas, too.; २२/१२/१०, ९:५८ AM
Richard Dolan म्हणाले...: So we find out what the locals are doing in Sacramento via Althouse in WI linking to the BBC? Ease of access on the internet, a function of familiarity and presence as much as anything else, has become today's megaphone. Odder still: Ann's megaphone is
more powerful than almost all local media (and not a few national ones as well).

Progress of a sort, I suppose.; २२/१२/१०, १०:०५ AM
Geoff Matthews म्हणाले...: When the Canadians did this, there wasn't a problem.
Why? Americans are obese, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE; २२/१२/१०, १०:१६ AM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: "When the Canadians did this, there wasn't a problem.
Why? Americans are obese, of course."

Most of us Americans eat one to two Canadians a day. They aren't very filling. Even the vegans have a few now and then. They're not technically a meat.; २२/१२/१०, १०:२१ AM
Larry J म्हणाले...: AllenS said...
I would like to get together with a bunch of paratroopers, go to the University of Madison, and at the top of our lungs, sing Blood on the Risers.

Speaking as a former 11B2P, that would be fine entertainment.

The 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate bridge, planners figured 50k people would show up - 800k actually came to celebrate. The guesstimate loading was 2 1/2x the design load but that still provided a theoretical 2.5x safety factor.

I remember seeing photos of that incident. The load was so heavy that the arches on the Golden Gate bridge flattened out as seen in this photo.; २२/१२/१०, १०:२७ AM
Peter Hoh म्हणाले...: The Canadian flash mob video was a big hit when shared around the living room after dinner with friends a couple weeks ago. I think that quite a few of us would jump at the opportunity to participate in one of these events.

AJ, yes, during her interview with the organizers of the Canadian event, Carlson managed to find a War on Christmas® angle.

Can't find a clip in the 30 seconds I gave myself to find it, however.; २२/१२/१०, ११:०२ AM
Jason म्हणाले...: They should have changed keys a half step in either direction.; २२/१२/१०, ११:०८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: I remember my father saying the military warned the troops "don't march in step when on a bridge" as it could cause a bridge collapse.

We learned about this in high school physics: the resonance frequency that the Tacoma Bridge reached, although according to wikipedia, the real cause of the collapse was aeroelastic flutter, whatever that is.; २२/१२/१०, १:०४ PM
Kirk Parker म्हणाले...: Daniel Fielding, part of the stands at the Other UW™did fall down, fortunately with no one in them.; २३/१२/१०, १२:४७ AM