Monday, April 18, 2005
second random life-task - mass pillow fight
hi all,
Having successfully completed my previous randomly-chosen Thing to Do, inventing a new cocktail (see posts "101 things to do" 12th April 2005, and "Mister Hugh's cocktail corner" 15th April), I decided it was time to generate a new one.
Plugging in my ultra-sophisticated random-number generator (and incidentally wiping out half the electric supply in the city for a while), I came up with number 66. Looking this up, with some trepidation, in the book (101 things to do before you Die), I discovered that I was now required to 'Be part of a flash mob'.
Now this isn't quite as indecent as it sounds, necessarily. According to the book, a flash mob is "a seemingly-coincidental convergence of people who participate in a bizarre activity, then disappear". Sounds good.
Unfortunatey, I could sit around waiting for ever until someone happened to invite me to join one of these. So the only reasonable options for me are either to give up on this task (which obviously I simply will not do) or organise my own.
So i've decided to organise a mass pillow-fight somewhere in Manchester city centre, involving as many people as I can persuade to take part. Basically everyone will converge at a certain time, appearing to be just doing their own thing, until the start of the pillow-fight. Then a (hopefully) huge crowd of people will bash the hell out of each other with soft furnishings for a minute or two, before vanishing at a second signal. It should provide a nicely surreal experience for the people of Manchester.
If by any chance you're up for joining in, then please feel free to contact me by email. It won't happen for a little while, as it might take some organising, but hopefully will be worth the wait.
Having successfully completed my previous randomly-chosen Thing to Do, inventing a new cocktail (see posts "101 things to do" 12th April 2005, and "Mister Hugh's cocktail corner" 15th April), I decided it was time to generate a new one.
Plugging in my ultra-sophisticated random-number generator (and incidentally wiping out half the electric supply in the city for a while), I came up with number 66. Looking this up, with some trepidation, in the book (101 things to do before you Die), I discovered that I was now required to 'Be part of a flash mob'.
Now this isn't quite as indecent as it sounds, necessarily. According to the book, a flash mob is "a seemingly-coincidental convergence of people who participate in a bizarre activity, then disappear". Sounds good.
Unfortunatey, I could sit around waiting for ever until someone happened to invite me to join one of these. So the only reasonable options for me are either to give up on this task (which obviously I simply will not do) or organise my own.
So i've decided to organise a mass pillow-fight somewhere in Manchester city centre, involving as many people as I can persuade to take part. Basically everyone will converge at a certain time, appearing to be just doing their own thing, until the start of the pillow-fight. Then a (hopefully) huge crowd of people will bash the hell out of each other with soft furnishings for a minute or two, before vanishing at a second signal. It should provide a nicely surreal experience for the people of Manchester.
If by any chance you're up for joining in, then please feel free to contact me by email. It won't happen for a little while, as it might take some organising, but hopefully will be worth the wait.
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Pillow fight sounds very cool! When is it and where and can I hide my pillow under my jumper in an amusing 'look at me i'm pregnant' style while I'm waiting?
Love Esme xx
Love Esme xx
# posted by 
: 12:34 pm
: 12:34 pm
Current plan is sometime in July or August, so the weather's good, possibly combined with some kind of social event to get people to travel up from other cities
Location is probably in Picadilly Gardens.
And in answer to your last question, yes you can (in fact it's a great idea), although you might want to explain things to Ben first otherwise he may be a bit startled.
Location is probably in Picadilly Gardens.
And in answer to your last question, yes you can (in fact it's a great idea), although you might want to explain things to Ben first otherwise he may be a bit startled.
I thought its meant to be spontaneous!
Hugh
Do you think all this plannning will some how make it loose its appeal?
Hugh
Do you think all this plannning will some how make it loose its appeal?
well, no. It's meant to appear spontaneous to those not in the know. But to actually get a reasonable amount of people it will need organising in advance. Otherwise it won't be as impressive as it could be.
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