Do Re Mi Flashdance & the May Day Prom (Ride) on the Promenade!

Have you seen this video yet? If you haven’t, you should take four minutes out of your life to watch this flash mob of about 200 dance to the Sound of Music’s “Do Re Me” in a train station in Amsterdam. (NOTE: I just learned from Urban Prankster that this was corporate sponsored–details below). I guarantee you a smile–and I hope it inspires you to join us on May 1 for the May Day Prom Ride and Bike Prom on the Promenade! It might even give us something to aspire to! (Flash prom anyone?)

Prom Ride to the Promenade
Friday May 1
5pm Ventura County Government Center
8pmVentura Beach Promenade
Dress to impress!

In honour of the group bike rides that have long played a part in celebrating bicycle culture all over the world, the early-evening prelude to the Bike Prom on the Promenade is the Prom Ride.

At 5pm we will meet at the Government Center of our fair County, corner of Victoria and Telephone, dressed in our finest Prom-appropriate apparel.

Once gathered, we will be led along the streets and past the High Schools, setting forth en mass, gathering riders along the way, thrilling passersby with not only our joyous glee but also our two-wheeled vehicles and our decadent garments!

Who knows where we will go and what we will see?

There will be delight… there will be art…there will be spontaneous portable promness…

And before 8pm, the ride will end at the location of the Bike Prom: The Ventura Beach Promenade!

Speaking of aspirations and inspirations, I was searching the net and found that Victoria BC is holding their third annual Biker’s Ball the last weekend of April, including a Bike Prom and Prom Ride. What we could aspire to! not this year of course but maybe next year?

http://victoriabikeprom2009.blogspot.com/

The Prom Ride

Let’s Dream BIG!

I think I’m going to go test drive bikes this windy afternoon! Wish me luck on finding a new steed to ride to the prom May 1!

According to Urban Prankster, the video

is a publicity stunt / viral video that was made to promote a Belgian reality TV show centered around a production of The Sound of Music. The T-Mobile video came first; it was released in January. Of course there have been many flash mobs and Improv Everywhere-style events staged in London’s Liverpool Street Station, long before T-Mobile. The Belgian video was released in March, hot on the heels of T-Mobile’s success. The videos are pretty similar to each other, but what I found really hilarious was how brazenly the Belgian team ripped off the T-Mobile behind-the-scenes video.

And here’s a “making of”:

I admit, I am disappointed. I hadn’t realized it was a corporate commercial. Doesn’t mean that we can’t do our own cool stuff!