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One photo, every day in Summer.

Oil after rail

From Watsons Bay

Waste

The last students were in here at around 6pm this evening. University of South Queensland - you should be ashamed.

Some kind of Sydney skyscraper blue

No, it’s not inside a club or at a festival. It’s the Town Hall steps on a Friday afternoon!

This morning I was getting emails from colleagues who were all hung up on the notion of a flashmob. Comments such as - “What is it?”, “Huh? I don’t geddit.”, and “Bizarre!” were just some of the email floating around today. People who would have no idea about websites such as inthemix were all buzzing with the notion of the flashmob.

I arrived at Town Hall steps at 5:40pm, taking up a prime position to be able to watch the event unfold. People started to arrive, but I couldn’t discern between what was a normal number of people congregating at this location, an iconic city meeting place, and what were numbers in excess of this.

Then it became quite evident. More and more people with headphones on began to arrive.

With a loudhailer in hand, Jay Hemsworth from inthemix announced to all that it was 6:11pm. It was time to dance. And for ten minutes, people did. There was hollering and whooping but still no music to be heard.

A few hundred people dancing to the sound of their own MP3 player. The phenomenon, a twist on the flashmob, this was the ‘flashrave’.

View the full photoset on Flickr. Further coverage on news.com.au - I’m up the back on the left in the green shirt (if you squint hard enough!).