I'm gonna do a little something tonight which I've done before. Lacking a cabal (or private photographer), I won't have anything to show for it online, but this is a possible GASM that is extremely simple and rather amusing.
Ingredients:
1 pair of sunglasses per person
Instructions:
Put sunglasses on. Wait for nightfall. Go out and just walk around in public places. If anyone looks at you funny, acknowledge by making a stupid and/or angry face back at them. If you are not alone, try playing hide-and-seek with your co-conspirators while doing this.
Also available as a flash-mob.
inb4 Corey Hart
in b4 corey feldman
Mind translating that plz?
well um the first guy wrote that song about wearing sunglasses at night
and the second guy just wore sunglasses a lot. and is also corey.
and don't forget to take pics
Like I said, no cabal, no photographer... Going it solo. I'm actually just using the opportunity that I have to go all over this city visiting three different apartments I might move into... Lots of idle transportation time.
Gotta go now. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXw4qqQqTrY :p
BTW and more on-topic, I'm not sure that if I saw someone with sunglasses at night it would interrupt my thoughts on whatever else I was doing. Maybe something more visible, like a winter coat and boots in the summer, or hawaiian shirt and shorts and other tourist stuff in the winter
yeah, you gotta make someone's brains into jelly. perhaps that guy who has his coat on backwards and shaved the back of his head to look like a face and wore sunglasses backwards.. i can't find the pic, but i imagine you know what i'm talking about.
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(http://content.pyzam.com/funnypics/people/1443%5B1%5D.jpg)
and/or
(http://0.content.collegehumor.com/d1/ch6/1/3/collegehumor.0c3d3d31905f8d8249e3bd632a6e92b9.jpg)
you konw, but with shades
If I'm following, this is all about looking sketchy without actualy doing anything you can be busted for.
In my high School days, we'd do a variation: We all walk into a large store wearing long coats, and on the call of "1,2,3, SCATTER.", we take off to different departments.
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on January 28, 2008, 05:28:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXw4qqQqTrY :p
that song ROCKS, another fine example of me finding and loving the original after getting acquainted with some remix (tiga poop in this case).
but the video sucks balls, i had never seen it before :)
QuoteBTW and more on-topic, I'm not sure that if I saw someone with sunglasses at night it would interrupt my thoughts on whatever else I was doing. Maybe something more visible, like a winter coat and boots in the summer, or hawaiian shirt and shorts and other tourist stuff in the winter
i'd think "lol, sunglasses at night", and get the corey hart song stuck in my head and probably try to get the barman to play it for me.
Well, first of all it seems initially people do notice and seem surprised, but my feeling was the Germans are too neurotically polite (uptight?) to really show it. Most people looked at me for a second, startled and stared straight ahead instead. On the other hand, I couldn't see their reactions very well because, well, I had sunglasses on. :lol:
My thinking is, however, that this would be much more of an MF if done in a group of 3 or more people. It would be even more of an MF if it succeeds as a GASM, meaning it would start happening more and more in seemingly unrelated geographical locations.
It also helped that I was wearing my ridiculous wool hat, which has two pompoms on the top and two hanging down on strings from the sides. It gets me funny looks even when I'm not wearing sunglasses at night. Maybe the whole GASM needs to be coupled with wearing funny hats.
I really have to get a local cabal. :(
hm, but, what it basically comes down to would be dressing up weird / attention grabbing / special (be it with sunglasses, strange headwear, or .. big wooly boots), with a bunch of people?
i dunno, but that's not really a mindfuck--yet, IMO.
still needs some kind of "hook", otherwise people will just go "bunch of persons wearing sunglasses", something funny, that connects something in an unexpected way.
maybe if you buy a bunch of real cheap sunglasses in bulk, and leave them in a box in the men's and ladies room of a club / bar, start wearing them with 4-5 people, see how many copy?
it also depends on where you are, of course. in a big city, you can dress up as weird as you want, even in a group with 10 people, the public will just go "whatever". while in a smaller village, you can probably still surprise people with something like this.
000's got the right idea. Prompting and enabling people to take part in the silliness does add a certain kind of fun to it, which is just as good as some grand recruitment scheme, point, or punchline to it all.
punchline! yeah that's the word! s/"hook"/punchline please.
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades!
Oh no!
I actually always wear sunglasses night or day inside or out side 365 days a year, usually only taking them off for pictures.
Yes we did that for awhile in our town with friends, wore sunglasses ALWAYS at night. Always a good look for people to do doubletakes everywhere you go. They pass over you then like "WHOAH!....what?"
It worked great with about 5 people, but yes I do think there needs to be more people or something "bigger" in the scheme... I always wear my trench coat as well, and my hat that says "freak"....so I get good enough looks anyways.
Maybe some kind of scare tactic or something provoking others to wear them. Combine it with postergasm in various places, by putting up signs that warn of certain things like.....
SOLAR FLARES! :fap:
And have the signs warning of things like that, so the (insert federal safety agency here) suggests everyone keep sunglasses on for protection during the night at certain times. Make the posters look official, put them up around town on businesses...poles, whatever. THEEEEN get your group of however many people MORE THE BETTER and start walking with sunglasses, and if you feel gasmasks would add a good effect. I think the next night would see either a lot of people playing along, or at least wondering...
The public can be scared into anything if the gov. says it's true....
take the duct tape and plastic sheeting example...they said that would help in a nuclear attack.
EDIT: Made One...
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h115/bringdownthesystem/depinteriormessage.jpg)
:mittens:
Awesome ideas there, bringdown. Definitely going to remember those whenever I find/found a local Cabal.
Mhmm. Me as well, I hope I will get a good Cabal type group going out here in this weird ass small town, and when I move to spread to the city hopefully it will keep going and then I can make a new one...hmmm,
if anyone has seen fight club have you ever thought of going from city to city starting cabals lol? And then it would be one big major army?...then we could accomplish......well... :sadbanana: wow.
(http://home.wanadoo.nl/l.loos/fotomap/lowlands.jpg)
I did that, and scared the little girl next to me!
zwote!