Flashmob B-Boy Style!

This week, Black Eyed Peas played Staples Center in downtown LA. I guess it was like a homecoming gig, so something special was organized by San Diego's Cros1 (Freestyle Sessions) on behalf of Dipdive (will-i-am's website.) The big idea was to create a flashmob to congregate outside the gig and bust-a-move, b-boy style.

I heard Dipdive streamed the stunt live, but suprisingly no footage is hosted on the Black Eyed Peas-affiliated website. I did, however, find this shakey video clip from the night. You get the vibe.

The idea is to have 20 groups of 8-10 BBoys and BGirls blend into the crowd of people at our secret location. We will all be dressed in plain clothes, and at the exact same moment, we will all rip off our outer shirts to reveal the Dipdive Freestyle Session shirts that will be provided. Each group will then break off into their own 8-10 person ciphers, and do the choreographed routine for 5 or so minutes as the hundreds of people surrounding us have no clue what is going on.

This will be filmed from within the crowd, a bird’s eye view, and from an angle.
It will be broadcasted live to the entire world, and people have been told to check it out on dipdive.com.

Let’s reach out to all of our networks around the world to tune in, and pass along the info to make it the biggest we possibly can.

Download the Supernatural tune that was used for the dance routine here.

This flashmob pales in comparison to another Black Eyed Peas crowd participation event which was aired on national TV. I only just saw this and it's an amazing effort of planning, creativity and hard work from fans. Again, will.i.am was the instigator, may be with some T-Mobile help?! How many more of these will he try?

will.i.am's crib

I spotted this interesting article on will.i.am, one of hip hop's most popular producer/artists. Until reading it I actually didn't know Black Eyed Peas was an LA band. And so I also didn't know Los Feliz was where will.i.am has his studio inside his three-story 1920s Spanish house.

The L.A. Times's article talks with will.i.am and his designer, Liana Reid, about the vision and influences that led to the ecletic, rich, textured studio interior design complete with customized furniture and sound architecture. will.i.am calls it "California No-style"

Collector Of course will.i.am has collects art, but until now I've not seen what he's into and the article gives you a glimpse inside his collection. It also answered the question "who buys Ron English's work that keep his prices so high?" ;)