Flash Mobs Arent Dead: Vancouver Zombie Walk
This weekend, Vancouver played host to the first ever zombie walk. Apparently 300 undead, costumed souls arrived at the Vancouver Art Gallery to shamble over to a cemetary. Kirsten has a complete rotting-limb-by-rotting-limb account on her site:
First, a trip through the mall. The first few shoppers seemed determined to pretend that 300 zombies were not stumbling past their favourite stores, moaning “Brrraaaaaaaiiiiiiins”. An upscale jewelry store locked their doors as we passed by. We bottlenecked at the escalators and a crowd gathered to stare at us at the bottom.
Photos, of course, abound. There’s 670 zombie photos on Flickr, there’s another set here and this cool one taken from a passing bus. The local media appear to have missed the event entirely.
August 29th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
and a good time was had by all. braaaains.
converging on the skytrain was another amusing moments. skytrain security didn’t seem to quite know what to do with us.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:32 am
It’s probably just me, but I always find it icky and in bad taste when the undead do walks and rallies and stuff like that.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:27 am
sara: Hey, even undead need to have a little fun! It’s boring if all you get to do is stay buried and dream of brains…
August 30th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Most of this event sounds hilarious, but I’d have avoided the graveyard. The last thing that someone visiting the grave of a departed parent, sibling, or child is a bunch of people acting like zombies. That part was in poor taste, IMO.
The rest is freaking funny though. Especially the tourist bus part.
August 31st, 2005 at 9:23 am
Sure, it SOUNDS fun, but all it takes is one paranoid George Romero fan with a chain-saw to ruin the party.
August 31st, 2005 at 9:23 am
Sure, it SOUNDS fun, but all it takes is one paranoid George Romero fan with a chain-saw to ruin the dead-man’s party.
September 14th, 2005 at 11:50 am
hey!
the first walk was in montreal
and then there was sanfrancisco
and then vancouver
hell yeah on the huge numbers but this wasnt their idea