{"id":281,"date":"2008-10-20T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2008-10-20T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:12:44","slug":"mp3-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/mp3-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kei and I participated in the San Francisco MP3 experiment, thanks to her lab friend Mike. I donned my red Gang Of Four Entertainment T Shirt and headed out with my ipod queued to the MP3 voice of Steve.<\/p>\n

Here is a description of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a good study in crowd dynamics (Swarming, if you will). We played some exciting activities like “attacker” and “defender” with random primary color clad strangers. We also did Human Tetris, twister and had an “Epic Battle”. That was a good study in crowd dynamics.<\/p>\n

I think the most fun part was the beginning, however, when we spooked the normals. When everyone was synchronized (more or less, pretty good for the San Francisco crowd) to the voice of the omnipresent MP3 voice of Steve, and started walking in one direction, pointing to the Golden Gate Bridge and giving the normals high fives, it definitely piqued interest among the civilians. We played some thumb wars with strangers, and started walking en masse to do the large activities, it apparently dropped the interest level. Karen, Mike’s wife had a graph to display the interest levels. I love it:<\/p>\n

\"Karen's<\/p>\n

On the Y axis you have the level of interest. On the X axis you have the time (marked by event (umbrellas opening, epic battle, etc.). Notice how the interest level goes up until the Umbrellas go up. Then they go down as the event appears to be obviously a performance art piece. Not the zombification of lots of primary clad impressionable internet enabled folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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