September 10, 2009 at 7:46pm
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Beautiful Angle progenitor Lance Kagey drew a few dozen people to Tollefson Plaza today with an invitation to capture shadows.
Relatively spontaneous and generally without official approval, a flock of Tacomans descended on the Plaza with chairs, set them in appropriately-angled sunlight, and taped over the shadows cast with blue masking tape. Dubbed “SIT IN,†and based on the work of local artist Joe Penrod, the event was a true-to-form Flash Mob extravaganza.
Flash Mobs started in Manhattan, where then senior editor of Harper’s Magazine Bill Wazik flooded hipster hangouts with carefully-coordinated groups of pranksters with the hopes of causing chaos. Wazik said he organized the mob-actions as a social experiment aimed at clowning on hipsters clamoring to be part of “the next big thing.â€
Flash mobs, of course, immediately became trendy.
More recent manifestation still get points for generally involving large, guerilla-style invasions of public spaces, and for sometimes involving art.
The first 50 people that showed up today scored a Beautiful Angle poster featuring Tacoma poet William Kupinse and up-and-coming silkscreen artist Tyler Kalberg.
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