The flash mob on Thursday was an experience I have never witnessed before in my life. Being that I video taped the flash mob happening, I was able to see from an "outside" perspective. When the whistle blew and automatically everybody fell to the floor doing snow angels while "Let it Snow!" was playing, people who weren't involved in the Flash Mob were so incredibly confused. As everybody first fell to the floor, the people left standing, just stood there looking around, trying to figure out if they missed something. After looking around for a few seconds, they continued to walk through the maze of bodies on the ground doing snow angels and continued about their day. The people walking in to the mob of snow angels, walked through everybody and shook their heads as if they were saying to themselves, "oh my god, what is going on NOW at Kutztown". The best part of the entire flash mob, was immediately after the music ended and the whistle blew, when everybody got up and walked away as if nothing at all happened. The looks on everybody who wasn't involved face's was pure confusion.
The flash mob was so different than something I've ever witnessed because now a days everybody is so used to everything being online, and people conforming to groups (like our snow angels group) all online, while having a sense of acceptance. The flash mob was out of everybody's comfort zone because it was a real life performance, where people's physical bodies were in a group, doing the exact same thing, at the exact same time. Putting people in a real life, physical situation (instead of online where they can hide from people's reactions), where they aren't completely aware of what is going on, puts people totally out of their comfort zone.
