WWFM – Newcastle Upon Tyne on the Blue Carpet Event Cache
G Force: It's been over a week now and the total I have seen for all the events was 4,391 people attending worldwide. For more photos and talk about all the events go to http://www.podcacher.com/ which should bring up this page Show 139.0: WWFM Report #2.
The one that caught my attention was the one in Sweden where they fit it in between a wedding and the reception.
Many thanks to all who attended who helped make the above total a record of some sorts.
WWFM – Newcastle Upon Tyne on the Blue Carpet
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
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A Flash Mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, and then quickly disperse. This event is one of over 80 similar geocaching events taking place at the same time around the world. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=WWFM
DATE : Saturday, November 10, 2007
TIME: 17:00 PM to 17:15 PM (only 15 minutes!)
WHERE: The Blue Carpet outside of Laing Art Gallery
This Flash Mob Gathering of Geocachers will be only 15 minutes long. You MUST be present and sign the log sheet DURING this time to claim this event. After 15 minutes…we're gone and you were too late!
This event will last exactly 15 minutes, not one second longer! This event will be one small part of the WWFM (world-wide flash mob event). This event (and all others around the globe in their respective time zone) will begin precisely at 17:00PM on Saturday, November 10th.
At exactly 17:00 PM (as determined by your GPS clock) a bag for log sheets will be placed near the coordinates. As you arrive, you’ll be handed a "log sheet." Participants will sign the log sheets (which will later become the log book). To qualify for attendance, drop them in the designated bag. Bring your own pen – in fact, why not bring your own slip of paper with only your trail name written on it, legibly enough for others to decipher. Names will be drawn from the bucket of log sheets for the FTF, 2TF and 3TF prizes.
At a designated time, we will have a “banquet” and will take a group photo. At exactly 17:15PM, the log sheets will be packed up and sealed away. The event area will be evacuated without a trace. Only those participants whose names appear on the log sheets may log THIS event.
ITINERARY:
16:45 - 16:59 AM - Participants: Wait patiently near the area or have a stroll around admiring the work of art. STAY AWAY from ground zero until the signal is given. As much as you can, act like a muggle, pretend not to know each other or give any indication that something is about to happen. At 16:59AM I will reach ground zero with the bag, announce the time. This is the signal for the Flash Mob Event to begin. Everyone now makes their way to GZ.
17:00 PM - Log sheets will be handed out for those who did not bring their own. Bring your own writing instrument. Sign individual log sheets and drop them in the collection box. Mingle. Trade travel bugs and coins. Swap geocaching stories and tales. Brag. and Take photos. Make arrangements to meet elsewhere, or to find the various caches in the nearby area. There are plenty of places to meet up nearby with plenty of caches to be found in the cache rich area of Newcastle (16 within .5 of a mile from the event).
17:08 PM - The event “banquet” will be served! (Don’t too get excited or come too hungry, it’s just chocolates.)
17:11 PM - Prize draws
17:13 PM - Assemble for a group photo, and assemble FAST. Listen to the photographer for directions. Group photo is taken.
17:14 PM - One minute warning is called "It is now 17:14!" Prepare to leave and CITO the area of wrappers.
17:15 PM EXACTLY - Wait for it ... then LEAVE the area (right at 17:15 PM)! Meet elsewhere if desired. The log sheet bag will be packed up. If you don't get to it in time you can't log the event.
If everything goes right we will have lots of people coming out of nowhere and gathering for 15 minutes, holding a geocaching event and then disappearing…This could be lots of fun and maybe even raise a few muggle eyebrows!
The Blue Carpet is a piece of Public Art in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Although classified as a piece of public art, it is closer to an urban design feature. The piece occupies an open public space in front of the Laing Art Gallery, close to the main shopping and nightclub areas. The square has been covered in a skin of blue paving slabs. At the points where this skin reaches a building the slabs curve upwards to create the sensation that the tiles are a fabric laid over the area. There are a number of benches that appear to fold up from the carpet surface, and beneath the benches are sunk glass topped boxes which hold coloured lights. At the eastern end an established staircase leading to an elevated walkway is encased in a curving skin of wood ribbons. Completed in 2001, the piece took six years to realize.
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