International Homestuck Flash Mob 4/13/14 (DATE CHANGED)

[crescentGasher]

You read right, an International Flash Mob to be performed on Homestuck day next year! Read more for details!
It's pretty much a bunch of little Flash Mobs done on the same day but with all the sames songs and dances.

I was randomly watching Flash Mob videos on Youtube and thinking of different good ways for Homestuck to be seen by the mainstream and then it hit me: A World Wide Flash Mob to Homestuck, In Cosplay!

How this works is that the Flash Mob will start at 4:13PM and end at 6:12PM in whatever time zone you live in so that it's not only all at 'the same time' but it kind of makes a more steady flow of videos being uploaded and news reports and what not. Also easier for coordination here. This is all to be done in Homestuck Cosplay so get your horns and hammers ready!

I know it seems like a long amount of time but you don't have to dance the entire time. It allows enough time for people to come and go as they need/feel, rest, and take turns with the many cameras that are to be present.

Each song will have a list of characters to dance for it to allow people to rest and also because it's fun for the rest of us. I will be posting a list of rules once I start getting people saying they'd be interested in doing this.

Everyone will be in charge of their own city/town/village/etc. We don't have choreography yet nor do we have the full list of music. Each place is going to need at least ONE camera taping JUST the dancers because at the end I want to have all the videos in one huge playlist to send to Andrew Hussie.

Suggestions for music are greatly appreciated and when we have a full list I'll start holding auditions for choreographers. I will be grabbing several for this project with no more than two songs for any one person to create a dance to. Songs that already have dances will use those.

I'll post details on how that will work when the time comes.

~Once the songs are set, we can start discussing order. One thing for sure is that 'The Happiest Homestuck Song Ever' is going to be last.~

We have a tumblr page! http://intrnl-homestuck-flash-mob-hq.tumblr.com/ spread it around and tell people on there that if they want to run the group in their town/city/etc. to drop me an ask with their Name, URL, and Location.

Quick Note of Warning: If I reject or don't readily accept any suggestion made, please do not push me on it! Some songs I need to listen to a few times and think about. Some songs I just don't think will work with what I'm wanting for this. Pushing me to accept a song will get the exact opposite end result of me refusing to use it no matter what. In the end it's my decision please respect that.

Song List (not in order, not complete): Feel free to request songs or even question any that are on the list. Cascade will not be on here because it is way too long. The total time needs to come to about 1:59:00

Happiest Homestuck Song Ever - 5:05
Pyrocumulus Kickstart (lyric version) - 3:04
Turn Me On - 2:57
Discord
Trollcops
http://tindeck.com/listen/ysmy]Stuck This Way

We have found someone to choreograph the dances for us already! Thank you so much striderssuGROINis for volunteering!

The Song List has been filled and completed! I will now start working on the order of the songs. If you have suggestions on what songs go where feel free to ask. PLEASE spread this thread around as much as you can.

Dance Tumblr: http://homestuckdances.tumblr.com/

Locations - People in charge: If you want to be in charge of your city or town's group, PM me first, if there is a way for multiple small town groups to get together, please try and do so.
Seattle, WA - greyscaleQuestioner
Tampa, FL - RowdyJester

[reptilesShadow]

Holy shit, this would be so much fun. But, just a thought. If this were to be a public place wouldnt we kinda want to avoid the more colorful songs?

[Nimz]

Sounds like a fun thing.

Not knowing what a flash mob is, I had some... very different mental images that came up when I saw this thread title. I figured those couldn't be right, and I'm glad that suspicion was confirmed. I have one suggestion, though. It might be a good idea to put up some kind of link to each of the songs. For instance, I have no idea what 'The Happiest Homestuck Song Ever' is. Bandcamp links would be good for official homestuck music - save having to hunt around bandcamp to find that one song. Tindeck links should be fine, too. I would use youtube links as a last resort, but that's largely because my connection speed is kinda crappy at times, and youtube has a lot more bloat. Or you could do something like this:

Rex Duodecim Angelus - 6:39 - [url=http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rex-duodecim-angelus]Bandcamp[/url] - [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6Yl371mIc]Youtube[/url]
(would look like this:
Rex Duodecim Angelus - 6:39 - Bandcamp - Youtube)

... I might have a bit more than a passing familiarity with that particular song...

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Annoying broken links are annoying, so I'm taking it upon myself to clean up the [url] tags. They're fixed now, but since I already did this, wwhatevver. While I'm at it, I think this format is more convenient. At least for me. And that's who I'm really doing this for. If I remember to, I'll check to make sure the links actually point to things that are things as indicated, and add more alternates sources. Maybe I'll append some of the songs that are not in the OP under more spoilers, since honestly the music interests me far more than the project itself. At least the music that was made with Homestuck in mind. Those that are actually interested in the project itself, best wishes. You gonn' make this thing ROCK!

29 (last). Happiest Homestuck Song Ever youtube - 5:05
Pyrocumulus (lyric version) tindeck mediafire (to download) youtube - 3:04
Kill The Lights youtube - 3:36
Discord youtube - 3:14
Baby Got Back youtube - 4:25
Bad Apple youtube - 5:18
Bo Peep Bo Peep youtube - 3:46
Blue Lips youtube - 3:36
In My Arms youtube - 4:02
Turn Me On youtube - 2:57
How Far We've Come youtube - 3:35
Sburban Jungle bandcamp (Vol. 1-4) - 3:39
Skies of Skaia bandcamp (Vol. 1-4) - 2:45
Aggrieve bandcamp (Vol. 1-4) - 2:32
Showtime (Original Mix) bandcamp (Vol. 1-4) - 2:09
Rex Duodecim Angelus bandcamp (AlterniaBound) youtube - 6:39
Pon Pon Pon youtube - 4:25 - this fandom is weird
Moves Like Jagger youtube - 3:21 - yep, weird
Must Be The Music youtube - 3:27
A Thousand Acts tindeck - 3:59
Shoosh Pap You tindeck - 3:03
Homestuck (It's You!) tindeck - 3:40
Hivebent (Kylee Henke) tindeck - 4:01
s0meb0dy t)(at )(e used t0 kn0w tindeck - 4:06
You Can't Fight the Homestuck youtube - 4:34
Strider Owes $20 tindeck - 3:35
A Taste for Adventure bandcamp (Vol. 9) - 8:24
MeGaDanceVaNiA soundcloud homestuck gaiden bandcamp (Land of Fans and Music) - 6:04
1. CasualVaNiA dropbox - 4:34

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Other suggested songs - stuff that did not make the cut for the OP.
Dance-Stab-Dance soundcloud - 11:12
Requiem Of Sunshine And Rainbows bandcamp (AlterniaBound) - 2:44
Dance of Thorns bandcamp (Strife!) - 4:01

[Zagazo]

YES YES YES YES YES. I would freaking love to be apart of this!

[Holly]

Beautiful idea, and

One thing for sure is that 'The Happiest Homestuck Song Ever' is going to be last.

aw hell yes
Link Tindeck

[BlackholePA]

This is a fantastic idea and I might even be able to take part if it happens.

My one request is that we get to do this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVyjYuzicnM

There are other versions with the lyrics posted, but that one has some minor variations in the lyrics which I prefer. Also the singer is fantastic (Same person who sang "Temporal Shenanigans" I believe).

[crescentGasher]

Holy shit, this would be so much fun. But, just a thought. If this were to be a public place wouldnt we kinda want to avoid the more colorful songs?

Ah shit you're right... I think we can find edited versions or something... I'd hate to not have some really cool songs...

[crescentGasher]

This is a fantastic idea and I might even be able to take part if it happens.

My one request is that we get to do this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVyjYuzicnM

There are other versions with the lyrics posted, but that one has some minor variations in the lyrics which I prefer. Also the singer is fantastic (Same person who sang "Temporal Shenanigans" I believe).

Yes! Thank you for sharing this with me.

[crescentGasher]

Sounds like a fun thing.

Not knowing what a flash mob is, I had some... very different mental images that came up when I saw this thread title. I figured those couldn't be right, and I'm glad that suspicion was confirmed. I have one suggestion, though. It might be a good idea to put up some kind of link to each of the songs. For instance, I have no idea what 'The Happiest Homestuck Song Ever' is. Bandcamp links would be good for official homestuck music - save having to hunt around bandcamp to find that one song. Tindeck links should be fine, too. I would use youtube links as a last resort, but that's largely because my connection speed is kinda crappy at times, and youtube has a lot more bloat. Or you could do something like this:

Rex Duodecim Angelus - 6:39 - [url=http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rex-duodecim-angelus]Bandcamp[/url] - [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6Yl371mIc]Youtube[/url]
(would look like this:
Rex Duodecim Angelus - 6:39 - Bandcamp - Youtube)

... I might have a bit more than a passing familiarity with that particular song...

I can do that. It'll take some time 'cuz I'm a little busy right now but I'll make sure to get that done.

[Kururu4ever]

This is actually a really good idea! I'd love to partecipate but I don't know any Homestuck fan who lives near my area.
However the Italian Homestuck Fan Group on Facebook is planning on doing something like a music video, with all of us dancing in cosplay. We just need the coreography.

[crescentGasher]

This is actually a really good idea! I'd love to partecipate but I don't know any Homestuck fan who lives near my area.
However the Italian Homestuck Fan Group on Facebook is planning on doing something like a music video, with all of us dancing in cosplay. We just need the coreography.

Could you link me to their page, or better yet link them here? Maybe we can bring them in on this and help each other out some.

[BlackholePA]

If this is to become a thing we need to start advertising on Tumblr, making banners and keeping the OP up to date with all scheduling information. This would have to be quite a massive undertaking if this is to be organised from here.

[Zagazo]

I'll share this with a group that's near where I live, hopefully this takes off, even if Sburb starts!

Might I add, if there are any songs sung in another language, it might be best if they're in English so passer-bys can understand.

[crescentGasher]

If this is to become a thing we need to start advertising on Tumblr, making banners and keeping the OP up to date with all scheduling information. This would have to be quite a massive undertaking if this is to be organised from here.

That'd be great! And if you guys could start getting links and stuff for me that would be very much appreciated. And also any songs you wanna have play. I'll be taking out the ones with too bad of language since this IS public. I'd go get links and such myself but I've become a bit busy at the moment.

[crescentGasher]

I'll share this with a group that's near where I live, hopefully this takes off, even if Sburb starts!

Might I add, if there are any songs sung in another language, it might be best if they're in English so passer-bys can understand.

Well, not all of these are going to take place in America, hence this being International. And I don't think other languages is terribly worrying since we want the focus on the dancing and such anyway.

[Zagazo]

Well, I glanced through some of the songs, and I thought one or two could be translated. But then I thought about it and you're right, other languages are good too. And I meant for in English-speaking countries. I should probably enunciate my thoughts better.

But has anyone had any luck with finding choreographers? Or at least links to dances we can do?

[crescentGasher]

Well, I glanced through some of the songs, and I thought one or two could be translated. But then I thought about it and you're right, other languages are good too. And I meant for in English-speaking countries. I should probably enunciate my thoughts better.

But has anyone had any luck with finding choreographers? Or at least links to dances we can do?

First, I want everyone to have the exact same song list or else it kind of loses the main part of being a flash mob which is everyone dancing to the same thing.

And I'm not looking for choreographers and doing dance things until after I set the list and the order of the songs.

[ShutUpItsCanon]

Song suggestions:
(Non-Homestuck Related)
All Star- Smash mouth c':
(Maybe Glad you came- The wanted?)
How bad can i be?- The Lorax
Kill the lights- Birthday Massacre.
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[BlackholePA]

Gah! The second part of ShutUpItsCanon's post disappears in both the original and my quote, cutting off my response also. Noparse tags did not fix it. Am I the only one seeing this? If not then please attempt to quote ShutUpItsCanon and/or this post to see the entire message.

[QUOTE=ShutUpItsCanon;6627058]Song suggestions:
(Non-Homestuck Related)
All Star- Smash mouth c':
(Maybe Glad you came- The wanted?)
How bad can i be?- The Lorax
Kill the lights- Birthday Massacre.
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[crescentGasher]

Song suggestions:
(Non-Homestuck Related)
All Star- Smash mouth c':
(Maybe Glad you came- The wanted?)
How bad can i be?- The Lorax
Kill the lights- Birthday Massacre.
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[Nimz]

My initial guess would be the cut off message thing might be due to weird spacing shit, so I added spaces between all the dashes that break up the sections. Perhaps this will show:

Song suggestions:
(Non-Homestuck Related)
All Star- Smash mouth c':
(Maybe Glad you came- The wanted?)
How bad can i be?- The Lorax
Kill the lights- Birthday Massacre.
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(Homestuck related)
Safe and Sound- Broadway Aradia
Squiddle song.
Start the party- Inky
Strider owes me $20 -Broadway Karkat
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Oh my god, I'm sorry there's so many :c
Only suggestions that were on my mind though!
Also, is there a certain age you have to be? (Curious)

Adding these because they might not be seen immediately otherwise:

Strangely, I am seeing more text in your post when I try to quote it than in the original, and it has just cased my response to be invalid. :/

And I just refreshed the page and the second half of my post disappeared as well. This is odd to say the least.

You can be any age. Uh I'm not gonna do any Lorax or other songs that aren't somehow connected to the Homestuck fandom.
I thought I had Kill the Lights up there but I mighta missed it. ^^ Thanks for reminding me.

Finally, the url tags in the OP are broken, starting with Baby Got Back. They are linking to http://"http://*whatever* instead of just http://*whatever*. Protip: Do not put any " marks inside the [url] tags.

Edit: For what it's worth, the reason I guessed the weird spacing shit might be the culprit is because I've seen it wreck posts in other threads (Japanese translation of Homestuck thread, for instance). The forum automatically inserts a space when it sees a 'word' that is too long, which prevents threads from getting stretched too much horizontally. The problem occurs when the break is inserted in the middle of a character, due to the character being encoded by a different number of bits than typically seen on an English language forum.

[crescentGasher]

I got all the links fixed and everything. It was user error 'cuz I kinda typed out most of those myself.

Second, send me links to any songs you want added so I can listen to them.

I agree with Strider Owes Me $20 bucks though if I can find it.

But do keep in mind we want songs that incorporate a wide spread of the characters so everyone gets a chance to participate so I'm keeping the Broadways in general down to a minimum.

[don2687]

When is it also i think this will be a good idea

[crescentGasher]

When is it also i think this will be a good idea

The date and time are both stated fairly plainly. The date is in the topic and the time is in the first post.

[BlackholePA]

So, is that Eridan's theme vocal version going on the list?