There’s a crowd in every photo now

In Washington yesterday a snowball fight flashmob formed through Twitter, somebody decided throwing snowballs at Hummers would be fun, and it was! ..until one of them pulled up and a plainclothes detective pulled his gun on them! Every day now there are photos like these in our newspapers – a crowd of people in a place who are affecting the event due to the scale of their presence there.

tiger-crowd Theres a crowd in every photo now

A full grown male leopard was wandering through a part of the densely populated area of Jyotikuchi in Guwahati when curious crowds startled the animal and it mauled three people.

honduras-crowd Theres a crowd in every photo now
Police fired tear gas to hold back thousands of Hondurans outside the occupied presidential residency as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez appealed to Honduras to reinstate Zelaya as president.

sleeping-crowd Theres a crowd in every photo now

Chinese parents gather to sleep at an auditorium after they accompanied their children to a university to start their first semester in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province.

ice-crowd Theres a crowd in every photo now

More than 1,000,000 people attend the annual ice festival which lasts for three weeks in January, in Hwacheon, South Korea.

As social beings we are attracted to events that draw a crowd, and that’s why..

There’s a crowd in every photo now.

By Ross Hill - December 22nd, 2009 at 4:00pm with 597 views

  • janstewart
    Awesome images Ross.

    It makes sense that as we are becoming more connected that we will see this expressed in different ways.

    It points to a building momentum of simultaneously becoming more connected to ourselves and to others both inwardly and outwardly.
  • Awesome post Ross. I especially like that there are more and more people coming together at different events, and our current government and leadership groups can't figure out how to manage this. The Copenhagen Conference is a case in point. There were protesters. They were (mainly) peaceful.

    The police went from observing them, to using tear gas. There are not many intermediate stages of action for them to take.

    Very interesting - we are going to see more and more of this.
  • fyi Steve expanded his thoughts on how 'crowds are turning into riots and we’re not ready' at http://thesquigglyline.com/blog/leadership/185/
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