Frozen SF was a SUCCESS

Oh My God! This was crazy, and ended up being huge! Thank you for coming out to my event and/or spreading the word about it even it you didn't come. This event spread far because of you and the uses of social media. It reached: SF Arts Commission, SFPD (who monitored it to keep us frozen safe! TNX!) and Free Range Media (LA) who is including it in a segment of their show. I want to send a special thanks to my Mom (WHO ATTENDED!) and my friend Nate Payne, who supported my idea to do this all the way and is running for District 6 and might use this freeze in a campaign commercial. Please check him out: (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=nate+payne&init=quick#!/profile.php?id=100000642726263&ref=search&sid=11507370.1984610500..1).

But back to the Freeze! This was an amazing turn out! Freezing for 5 is kinda hard! I was there with my friend S and we were talking about poses and than said when is it gonna ring as we lean back and BOOM the alarm rang.
Oh Shit we said as we realized we did not have any fun pose. Oh well holding a normal pose is hard enough! When I watch the video and looked at some of the photos I am like DAMN! It is great.. Like I am not one to ever promote smoking but check him out:
Look for him in the video and the reactions, it is GREAT. Or like this guy who is working on his bike: This event reached out really far, and there was a group of clowns who came to "punk" the frozen people. I saw them put someone in a huge picture frame, pretend to kiss their cheek, put a sign on them or hold it up to them and take a pic with them. I am not sure if this was them putting the hat on him, or his hat.
Truly there were some great poses, from the couple kissing to the parent holding the kid in the air (REALLY?!), and many more including a high five.
What is cool is if you remember in my previous email that Free Range Media was coming out. Well guess what someone got a picture of them filming the event.
In the end, the alarms worked pretty well but I would love a bit better feed back. Maybe having assigned "Time Announcers" on each level? Your feedback is very important. If you want to see the event...this is the first YouTube Video of it to come out:

Didn't work? Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzW9yeLJFno#watch-main-area

Frozen @ Powell Station March 2010 by JMark Mendiola - Thank you!!! Find him at: (http://www.facebook.com/NatashaforLomaVistaFarm#!/JmarkSF415)

Check out this great video! It is from

Frozen SF has a wide reach

I created this event a while back and I had no idea it would reach to over 3,000 people. That fact alone blew my mind. Then I get contacted first in Facebook which naturally I am suspicious of but then after a bit of talking via IM's. I gave this guy Ben who is trying to contact me, my email and well I will just let you read.
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Dear Natasha,

My name is Benjamin Cohen and I'm a producer with Free Range Media, working on a new documentary series for Discovery's Planet Green network. Interestingly, the show has nothing to do with "going green." Instead, the show looks beyond sustainability to where we're headed as a society and a planet. The show brings viewers the stories of the most pioneering people in the country doing the most interesting, daring and incredible things.

I'm currently looking into topics to cover in the series and am very interested in Flash Mobs. I'd love to talk to you more about it and see if there might be something interesting there for the show.

If you're interested, please let me know the best way and time to reach you and I'll be in touch.

Best,

Benjamin
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Benjamin H. Cohen
Associate Producer
Free Range Media, LLC
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So the email came with attachments and more info, to which I responded by calling him now that I was more sure of who he is. I know so suspicious but you have to be in the internet, you never know. So we exchange emails and then talk. End result is that he is going to send out a small camera crew to cover the event and interview me.

Wait, What?! Rewind. Yes I did say interview me. OMG! How did something that I randomly want to do get to be this big, that people from SoCal are coming up to cover it and talk to me about it? Wow... I thought having it reach out to 3,000 people blew my mind. This just floored me. It all started with posting this up on two sites.
1. http://improveverywhere.ning.com/group/sanfrancisco/forum/topics/freeze-8
2. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=339246568189#!/event.php?eid=232249449636&ref=ts

Frozen Grand Central's SF Homage

If you remember I decided to pay homage to Frozen Grand Central Station, here in my own lovely city of San Francisco. I mean if we have a pillow fight that last for hours then we are crazy enough to freeze for five minuets. So I decided to organize one its the Frozen SF: Powell Station. If you do not know what I am talking about in regards to my homage watch this YouTube video:

Somehow I have not wrote in here about this event.. maybe because it was in March I don't know, but I should have. So let me give you the quick low down. We will freeze for 5 minutes & then disperse.

WHAT: Frozen SF: Powell Station

WHEN: Thursday March 4^th, 2010 at 5:30PM

WHERE: Powell & Market, Powell Cable turn-around, Powell Plaza, & of course Powell BART Station

SYNC: Via cell phone alarms & http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/pacific-time/

So for more in depth info and as you can tell... Frozen SF: Powell Station is THIS THURSDAY at 5:30PM. It started with just a posting asking if anyone else loved the above YouTube video. Which got a huge response, so I said lets set a time and I did! Just like that I created a Facebook event for it and invited all my friends About 200 people. (http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=232249449636&ref=ts). I also posted the information on Urban Prankster, a ning site for Improve Everwhere for people to find it. (http://improveverywhere.ning.com/group/sanfrancisco/forum/topics/freeze-8). After that I left it alone and kinda forgot about the event.

People asked me why Powell/Market - Powell Station... and the reasons for this is that we have many spots in which to be. We can be on the streets/sidewalks of Market and Powell, Powell Station Cable turn-around, Powell Plaza, & of course Powell BART Station. Plus there are many areas in which the event can be filmed/documented. This is from the San Francisco Center to with in BART Station there are many areas that will already be filming and where tourist and locals will run it to it.

Now I was going to be happy if we had 200 people interested in it, but well the reaction has been huge. We have ton’s of people interested in the event, actually over 1,000 people on Facebook who have RSVPed Yes and over 1,000 Maybe's. OMG! There are about 50 comments and if they all show up with someone, and if 10% of the RSVP's showed up then I am going to so excited.

I decided that I will mostly likely will be near the top of the stairs so I can see in many directions. I have heard many people interested are documenting this and if you are one, I would love to have different accounts & versions. Also be smart, protect your valuables & beware of pickpockets as we are FROZEN. How we are going to do this is with our lovely cell phones, please set an alarm for 5:30pm & for 5:35pm. Want to check your time go to: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/pacific-time/.

WHAT: Frozen SF: Powell Station

WHEN: Thursday March 4^th, 2010 at 5:30PM

WHERE: Powell & Market

Powell Station Cable turn-around, Powell Plaza, & of course Powell BART Station

SYNC: Via cell phone alarms & http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/pacific-time/

Now it is all about seeing what really happens and who actually shows up. Either way I am having a blast organizing this and watching it spread to so many people. The fact that something I have created has reached over 1,000 people is incredible. Social media seriously rocks!

SF Pillow Fight 2010

So sorry, I have been really bad in multiple ways the biggest one being that I just haven't written in this blog! I said I would do it and I have not been. So I am making it up right now! As you know in my list of things to do is participate in a Flash Mob, well one I do often (don't think of it as one opps) is the Valentine's Day Pillow Fight in SF! Every year it happens at 6pm at Justin Herman Plaza and is crazy. This is a huge, massive, mob of a pillow fight, where thousands of people show up to beat each other with pillows. Please take a second to wrap your mind around this fact a 1,000 PLUS person Pillow Fight. Just in case you cannot visualize this please check out this video:



Can you see how crazy and intense it is? It is a full on mob! Not just a mob a mob made of people ready to beat each other down. Lucky it was just pillows but even so sometimes you would actually connect with people. I know I did and I got a few pretty damn good knocks myself. Regardless of the fact I was glad to meet up with some friends and was able to keep a hold of my date for the most part. The pictures are by Jennifer Emperador.
That's is us all before the fight.. I swear the place is like the calm before a storm. People keep coming together it becomes a massive sea of pillows. The Justin Herman Plaza in front of the Ferry Building becomes crazy, intense and completely packed.
If you think this is a short half an hour thing, well obviously you don't know SF very well. We don't take things lightly or just play around we go all out. To stay in the fight the whole time is insane. I really wonder how many calories you burn fighting your heart out with a pillow. It took a good 20 minuets to fight your way through the crowd and after getting through once, well my date and I decided we needed a lil night cap. So we went to the wine bar hit the last call and had a lovely Malbec. We get out to see in the distance what appears to be snow, naturally we know it is not and as we get closer we see the individual feathers.
Unable to resist we rush back in to the fight, note it has been going on for over an hour now. The night is dark and the pillows flying. Being sucked back in the fight for a good bit is not hard to do as it looks like a lot of fun. Thus it is time to scream "CHARGE" and run back in full force with the courage of wine backing us.

After a good bit of time, loosing track of it really, while the fight is still going on fight fiercely almost two hours later. We are done, toast and just damn hungry. Yet walking down the street little mini fights erupted on the side walks to the quick passing in the crosswalk. Their is nothing one can do but smile and go after some THAI. Of which Osha did an amazing job and really went over the top. From the complimentary 1st glass of champagne , to the dessert and bringing the check with a long stem rose. Damn I love their food normally but that was doing Valentines with style.

First Flash Mob: No Pants BART

Today was great and really truly amazing and fun to do. Waiting for the BART pantless, with my rainbow knee high sock and reading a book while people take pics was funny. Great to listen to the, "I heard rumors of it but didn't think I would run it to it." or "cute, Kisses" (my underwear said that with a set of lips, thank you Lexi) The undies match the top and I have a huge bag and backpack that I am lugging. Not paying anyone any mind as I got on 24th and Mission and off at Powell. To get an idea of what this is like check out the Civic Center YouTube video below.



Being part of a Flash Mob was great and watching peoples reactions, reading it on the news is funny. From that it's indecent (HA nudity is legal in SF, but pantless is indecent!) to wow SF a taste of Europe. Still searching for info about this event but happy to have participated. Crossing off Flash Mob, plus the one I am working on Frozen SF is growing by leaps and bounds have to practice being still for 5 mins and the cha cha slide on Feb 6th.

My Flash Mob

Wow I am excited, I wanted to join in a flash mob and found one for this weekend. Another two I guess if the Valentine's day pillow fight counts, and the cha cha slide. I never imagined that the one I would plan and organize, Frozen SF would get such a big interest. It already has over 180 people who are interested in coming to this! He he! So far this is the info on the event:

Frozen in San Francisco.
Where: Powell BART Station, this includes the plaza and cable turn around.
Date: March 4st, 2010
Time: 5pm
Objective: Stay frozen for 3 mins

This will give us time to spread the word and gather interest.

We chose Powell BART because it was on the way to Union Square and a huge tourist stop as well as for natives We can be in the Bart station and plaza and even around the cable turns if we have enough people.



The info might change a bit, but if it does it will be a bit later and a longer freeze probably! We picked Thursday for a more tourist and native day and same thing with the rush hour.

JOIN ME! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232249449636&ref=share
Over 300 people are going to try to come.

Upcoming Flash Mob's

I am going to cross #21 on my short list (#29 on the long list) of soon.

One is being organized by someone else and is happening soon, 1/10 to be exact. It is the Pantless BART right that will be happening about 2:30 on the Pittsburg/BayPoint train.

The other one, which is a great one to do, I have started up this time! It will be a Frozen in San Francisco. We chose Powell BART (at 5pm) because it was on the way to Union Square and a huge tourist stop as well as for natives We can be in the Bart station and plaza and even around the cable turns if we have enough people.

Info again:
Where: Powell BART Station, this includes the plaza and cable turn around.
Date: March 1st, 2010
Time: 5pm
Objective: Stay frozen for 3 mins
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232249449636

So join me and help spread the word of Frozen SF.