Not your typical Blog (or Bimbo, for that matter!)
Welcome to the blog of Maureen Smullen of gomodesign.com. This is intended as a fun place for clients, friends and family. There are fun and odd things, photos videos, and really good tips and tricks (for some seriousness).
My Mom Bought My Cat A CHICKEN Hat (and he wears it!)
Written by Maureen
My mom is a frustrated grandmother. She calls my dog her granddog and the cats her grandcats. She spoils them very badly, often at my expense. She gives them toys and sneaks them treats when I have asked her not to (I still won't tell her how she is sneaking food to the cats)
BUT!!!! she had gone too far. She has given my big cat, Bean a CHICKEN HAT - a hat created for a cat that looks like yamulke with a chicken beak and comb!!!! It does not fit him well. The world is not very accessible to a 25 pound cat..so here he is in all his glory sporting his CHICKEN HAT!!!...
So, I promised to let people know what a Flash Mob is: If you don't already know, Flash Mobs originally were used as form of performance art and started in NYC. A group of people prearrange to descend on a place (often a retail store), mingling with shoppers, and suddenly do something in unison and quickly disperse back into the crowd.
While shoppers and passersby typically have no idea what is happening, the stores where this happened did not either. This form of guerrilla performance art is what the heart and soul of Flash Mobs were all about. Some were more pranks than performance art, like the one that seems to ge lots of press when a flash mob all boarded a NYC subway and proceeded to all drop their pants and ride in their underwear.
A Flash Mob like the one for T-Mobile and the one below are meticulously planned and timed. The documenting the effect is as important and challenging.
Here is a video of was billed as the world's biggest FREEZE flash mob. I don't have any background right now on how this was done, but I will add it if I can. It is pretty long, but you can see what it was like to be in the crowd:
I have no idea if this ad will ever be shown on US TV. This was an ad created by Saatchi and Saatchi, UK for T-Mobil's new ad campaign, "Life's for Sharing". They used what is called a Flash Mob.
It is a VERY cool effect, and a brilliant ad for how cell phones are used these days for immediate sharing and documenting of life's unexpected moments.
For more on WHAT a Flash Mob is and to see another REALLY cool Flash Mob Video,
So, I gave my mom a Nintendo DS for Christmas with Brain Age game (which includes her favorite, Sudoku). I purchased it a few weeks before Christmas and set it up, charged the battery, and of course had to try the game before I wrapped it. It was a pretty amazing device, so I called her: "mom, did you get my Christmas present yet?" "No," she said, " did you finally think of something you wanted?" "Yes, I want a Nintendo DS". Now there is a pause on the end of the line. "Aren't you a bit OLD for that kind of thing?" she asked.
Great! And this was what I was giving HER! I never know what kind of reaction I will get, when I present new things to her.
