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Last night's Silent Rave in Union Square seemed to draw a fair number of people. The concept was to have everyone congregate and dance to their own music played over personal headphones. Judging from the pictures, it looks like the event was a success. The event's official FaceBook page has another 600+ photos and counting. Video of the event is available here.
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White people do the craziest things.
Luckily for me I expected this and avoided the area entirely.
Too many hipsters in one area tends to create mass amounts of 'suck'.
Please.
kojak.
and everyone.
Can we please finally admit to ourselves that we don't have a clue what "hipster" actually means?
leave the hipsters alone.
they may not be as cool as they think they are, but at least they are trying.
i am tired of people who spend their lives just working, eating, sleeping and crapping until they die. and worse, accepting what "the industry" serves them as "entertainment" and thinking that all that adds up to a "life".
it doesn't. and hipsters get it.
their attempts at originality may be miserable failures most of the time, but at least they are aware of the need for it. and i think that in a lot of cases they are fully aware of their failures.
but the point is: it's better to fail trying to do something than to succeed in doing nothing.
here is a good rule of thumb: if you didn't do anything better on a friday evening than going to a movie you saw an ad on tv for, or going to a bar/club/restaurant that has a line in front of it, please don't criticize anyone. you don't have any right.
I don't really care it they're hipsters or not, but this is definitely the lamest thing ever. The whole point of a rave was an outdoor/illegal club that allowed anybody in, underage or not, and an insane amount of drugs and alcohol, AKA a good time. Plus how can you properly dance with someone if the two of you aren't listening to the same music.
Hipsters watch Independent Films, listen to alternative music, read Vice Magazine and wear 'trendy' clothing with slogans that aim to be ironic but only end up sounding stupid and corny. Hows that?
Excuse me ixvnyc for being a conformist. I'm all up for doing whatever people feel like doing, but this 'silent rave' is ridiculous... ridiculous enough to make it the butt of my jokes.
ixvnyc, at 6.17, i was having drinks outside with a bunch of friends. then i saw macbeth on broadway. then i had dinner. at no point did i dance in my own bubble like a retard. and i'm lower-east-side dwelling hipster.
these kids had nothing better to do than ignore everyone around them? cool!
So in order to live "life" and "think for themselves" a group of people use a mass-produced product to listen to music made by other people and dance all alone?
Sorry man, not buying it. I mean, if they had fun more power, but this is not a rage against the shitstem.
The silent rave just doesn't cut it. We need to end this irony thing once and for all.
7000 is waaay exaggerated. It was more like 100 people dancing and 2000 people gawking.
Oh fun! It was probably like... find your own BPM dance partners!
let me try make this clear (again):
i didn't go to this "rave", and i wouldn't want to. i think it's bad taste and kinda dumb.
BUT: i don't see how could it possible be any worse than going to some velvet rope club on the west side, which is done by the masses night after night for years?
all i am saying is: leave these people alone. they are dancing NEAR you, not AT you. there are much dumber things done on much larger scale.
and the best thing about this is that it's not scalable. now, if they would start doing this every week, at many parks, that would be a different thing. but as a one time diversion: points for doing something goofy with no harm done.
I bet my friend that it would be a congregation of child molesters and looking at these pics I won the bet!
Amen, ixvnyc. "Hipster bashing" usually comes from insecure people. With all the horrible things going on in the world, are kids in tight clothes and wacky hairstyles really so bad?
Actually, the event was surprisingly Unhipster.
It was bunch of High School kids from out of town just jiggling to their headphones and wearing the same ol' raver clothes from the late 90s.
Raving is obviously timeless, and I barely saw anything worth shooting (with my camera).
The video shows about 20 people dancing and a lof of people just watching the dancers.
There were a few really creepy looking old dudes walking through the crowds.
Multiple times.
I have to agree with #15, there weren't too many really interesting people to take pics of, but I did manage to get a couple.
i was there & many people were dancing with each other despite listening to their own mp3 players. this wasn't ballroom dancing.
it was super crowded & most people were dancing, not watching. they weren't ignoring each other or dancing in their own bubble. people were dancing with each other & with strangers.
it wasn't just white people or new transplants. & there were plenty of zunes, sansas & even cobys being used.
i feel sorry for blondie that she needs "an insane amount of drugs and alcohol" in order to have "a good time." that's sad, really.
you guys need to comment less & dance more.
I go to a silent rave every day. Its called the subway! Lots of people sitting around listening to headphones. I fail to see how this event is much different.
there are more important things in the world to worry about. get over it and move on.