Posts Tagged ‘ Life

The Flash Mob

I’m fascinated by the Flash Mob , where huge gatherings of people arrive on mass at a location just for a laugh. It’s akin to a protest, except they are not protesting, they’re just havin’ fun!

The first example here is from a Japanese TV show and is quite similar to a Dom Jolly sketch.

In London a huge gathering had a bop while listening to there own music on there portable music devices. Mobile Clubbing are the organisers of this one as far as I can tell. I’d reckon this is influenced by Silent Disco

Universal stars on YouTube

I noticed a few days ago that Universal Music Group now have their official channel up on YouTube. There are over 3,500 videos up here so far.
This is at a time when YouTube is been scourged for copyright infringement and lots of videos are being removed. This move by Universal raises new questions on the future of worldwide copyright. I would be very interested to know how the money changes hands between advertisers, Youtube and Universal. The quality of a lot of the encodes leaves a lot to be desired however and tags are not done very well thus making it no very searchable.