Zombie walk in Vaasa and it´s fantastic we made it happen..
First with some facts so you´ll get the idea of the actual size of the event -> Vaasa is a coastal city of Finland with approx. the population of 65 000 so it´s not big ( cities in Finland rarely are :-D ). the area of Vaasa is 397.44 km2 (153.45 sq mi) so if you look at the population VS the area you´ll notice that people live far away form each other basically and the inhabited areas are sparse.
So the event itself was a success. the total headcount is not confirmed yet but there were approx. over 100 people attending so that was a fantastic thing since usually the people around here are hard to attend to any sort of events like this. The whole thing started from Facebook, I got a request from a friend to join in and I was more than happy to, after about a week there was still wall post that actually started just out from a joke that we should dance thriller at the marketplace at the end of the walk, well people were into that too, there were approx. 30-40 dancers in the flash mob, so thinking about the size of Vaasa and the "enthusiastic" people around here that was a lot :-D
So, the next step was given to all dancers -> study the thriller moves from the Michael Jackson short film, well everyone did but it turned out that the original routine was quite hard for some people so we went for a simplified version ( this can be found on Youtube too as the thriller flash mob tutorial ). First practice sessions were arranged and the last practice was held a day before the event 27.9.2013. so.. on Saturday 28.9. the actual event took place. Started out at 3 o´clock with make-up sessions with some pro. make-up artists, I had a cut done with some blood coming out of it with latex on my cheek and my son wanted a small cut on his cheek, our faces were painted white and shaded with some black eye shadow etc. that was cool, the only problem with the latex was that it wanted to get stuck in my hair :-D but thankfully it didn´t destroy the make-up.
17:45 it was time to head out, pack ourselves to the car and drive to the meeting point, to our surprise there was a lot of zombies already waiting and we realized that the attendance was going to be higher than what was expected ( In Vaasa you are lucky if 20 people from the original 200 that signed up will show ) 141 originally signed for it and like I wrote earlier, the headcount was over 100. We realized that there were a lot more people that wanted to attend the flash mob than we saw in the sessions so we had a last practice session at the beach at the meeting point.
18:00 it was time to get the show on the road so we walked a long route, there was a massive audience on the streets everywhere we went so the attendance level of the whole event went up with a 100 souls at least so that was cool, there were a lot of people taking pics and videos. all of the zombies were really living it up and scaring people who were watching and scaring the cars parked in the traffic lights and you could see that the viewers also enjoyed it.
We finally got to the market place ( our final destination for the night) waited for all of the zombies to reach the place and when we had a full headcount the Thriller was played from a car built as a boom box, seriously these guys had a great sound system in the car. oh and it was the single version.
Dancing went really well and we had a little freestyling session in the middle of the song ( 3rd verse ) and everyone came up with cool moves and acting for that bit :) Annoyingly I haven´t gotten any video yet of the dancing just a few pics
the first pic on-top is of the mob, anyways here is a link for a picture gallery and a link for a video clip too.
pics: http://ossinyqvist.com/zombie-walk-vaasa-2013/
Video ( the story is in finnish but click on the videos to see them, these were in the local newspaper): http://www.pohjalainen.fi/uutiset/maakunta/zombiet-valloittivat-keskustan-kadut-katso-video-1.1471248
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