Onboard Diary

Flashmob (entertainment at zero gravity)

Maybe you've read about it. Or somebody told you.
Or you walked by.
Or even better: you were ther with us.

It was great that our 'training' was one of the first projects by Improva España, who are American Improve Everywhere's little brother. They had already surprised and shocked everybody when they imported the 'No Pants Day' to our 'Metro' (our underground system).

Dozens of strangers gathered at the very special Sol terminus, stuffed in kitchen foil to call people's attention even more: the action involved spontaneously fainting for 3 minutes, after which the area was cordoned off and the participants could enjoy a few minutes of zero gravity, much to the amazement of the peolpe passing by, onlookers... and the Police (who were there in huge numbers, as they usually are in Sol).

The best thing? The people who joined us without knowing about the film and who went home wiht some kitchen foil on their heads, some cosmonautic freebies, and a weird experience: that of doing something with everyone else :)

And this is how Daniel Torrelló saw it, in our Flickr...

... and in this video on vimeo.

A 'flash mob' is, according to Wikipedia, an English term referring to 'a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act 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.The term is generally not applied to events organized by public relations firms, protests, and publicity stunts.'

 See you at our next flash adventure? :)