Frozen Zurich Main Station
We all remember the frozen grand central station in New York from ImprovEverywhere, it’s one the most viewed clips on YouTube this year.
When I was in Zurich the last weekend I accidentally crashed into the swiss version of this kind of street art. Like in New York they choose the central station as their stage. I think it’s quite interesting how fast ideas are nowadays spreading around the globe.
Here is my footage:
And these two clips were uploaded by somebody else:
So which city will be next?
Posted March 19th, 2008 in Interesting. Tagged: Street Art.
in the end nothing else but a subversion of a flashmob (anyone remember the ‘hype’ around that?). will disappear as fast as it came up. nothing lasting, no enduring marks, i was (not) there. thus fits perfectly into modern way of living.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pmHi Bernie,
March 19th, 2008 at 3:03 pmgreat to see you here on the blog. Indeed you are totally right it’s just a subversion of a flashmob. It looks like that short term is the new long term, and I think it’s incredible how fast such trends are spreading, become popular and 6 weeks later get out of fashion. It’s like Tchibos claim in Germany: “Discover every week a new world”
check it quite regularily. yepp, and how right you are. newest trend in youth culture in .at: ‘krocha’. check it out. i’m curious for how long that trend will be cool.
btw, discovering a new world every week takes the sex out of discovering. imagine christoph columbus would discover every week another america . how boring. ‘same shit, different smell’ he might have been thinking.
puszi,
March 19th, 2008 at 9:02 pmb.
hmmm, I’m not sure if it’s really so boring to discover every week a new world. It can be a driver of innovation. Do think that Christoph Columbus got bored of discovering? I think it’s one of the things that will never get you bored. Maybe people just jump on the latest trends just because they are bored? Could this be a reason for frozen main stations? Are people feed up with ordinary street art?
March 20th, 2008 at 10:49 amhmhmhm….no, columbus surely didn’t become bored. his one discovery meant trouble enough for him. and of course you’ll never get bored of discovering – that’s why i’m so crazy with music.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pmbut: jumping from one discovery to the next doesn’t give you enough to time explore respectively conquer the last one. the middle way might be an idea. conquering is cool and certainly not boring, btw.
my consequence of you saying ‘people jump…because they are bored’ would be then: they are either too superficial to go into the depth of their discovery or they are simply too lazy/easy going or – worst – too afraid of it. latter one is yet no reason for frozen stations. for that i would need to think deeper.
finally: what is street art? what is ordinary street art? what extraordinary? (note to myself: have to think about that too). ich habe daran keine auslegungsmaxime. banksy? or the ordinary musician around the corner?
urk, i’m at work, i better pretend to do something.
greetz and see ya!
well, so can we agree on that you can’t get bored of discovering but we don’t really have a clue why people are doing it? I believe that they (we) are superficial on the one side (short term is the new long term) and lazy on the other side, and therefore we rather invest our energy into something that looks new, exciting and fancy instead of thinking about the stuff we just discovered or experienced before. But this shouldn’t mean that people like to change, they just want to experience something new in their old and safe environment, so that they don’t need to learn something new or change. Let’s better stay away from discussions about street art
March 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pmja, da magst du recht haben, mein freund. wir sollten mehr über die dinge [des lebens, des universums und alles anderen] diskutieren.
mir gehts grade eher ar…, du wirst wissen wieso.
Passend dazu: ‘Solo is the new Kollektiv.’ Hab ich gerade aufgeschnappt, nämlich hier: http://www.frankspilker.de/index.html
March 24th, 2008 at 8:38 pm