31 Aug 2009

"Flashmob" promotes a theme of unity

Got this from Daryl on Plurk and thought it was really cool to have everyone synchronize their acts like that, while taking instructions from a voice in an MP3. Would love to see if any country could get all their radio stations to participate! Maybe it's possible in a small country like Singapore?

What I liked particularly about this was one of the activities, whereby participants were asked to congregate according to their T-shirt colors. They were then asked to fight people of the other team (different T-shirt colors).

Later, the voice in the MP3 asked, "Wait! What are you doing?" and then participants were asked to remove their colored T-shirts to leave only a white T-shirt, and fight a common enemy (the wolf).

I felt that if played right, this could strongly bring across the message that under our different skin colors, red blood runs through all our veins, and we're all the same in the end. No racial divide.

That would be an awesome message. :)