MOB #7
08/26/03
Mob #7, tonight, was at St. Patrick's Cathedral in an area generally frequented by tourists, though there weren't too many tonight. The instructions were to form a single-file line starting at a wooden door halfway down the north side of the cathedral on 51st Street, wrapping around down Fifth Avenue and over to 50th Street. If anyone asked, we heard they were selling Strokes tickets there. "No cutting!" The line wasn't quite single-file, but it was a striking image, and definitely out of the ordinary.
(Perhaps I should call this mob #7.5, to avoid confusion with mob #7, the biggest mob yet?)
Confusingly, I saw an inexplicable line of about 500 people on 45th Street at 8 a.m. the next morning, undoubtedly waiting for White Stripes tickets.
More: Fred Hoysted, Moist and Tasty (with a picture of the dispersal signal)
( MOB #2 at Macy's | MOB #3 at the Grand Hyatt | MOB #4 at Otto Tootsi Plohound | MOB #5 in Central Park | MOB #6 at Toys R Us )
11:55 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Comments
The next and last of Bill's mob projects is on September 10, 2003. It is hoped that the mob concept will continue, but that someone other than "Bill" will actually make productive use of the e-mail list than something as stupid as making eager mob project participants stand in a line outside of a church. Aside from the fact that noone other than a handful of passerbys actually noticed anything going on, there was nothing suprising or "inexplicable" about it.
When will there be a "Mob that is actually seen by (hopefully many) people who are genuinely confused and/or shocked? Why has there not been any public Mobs in such Tourist heavy areas such as Times Square or even Union Square Park?