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Flash Rave at UAB, Let’s Make This Happen!

Submitted by astone on Tuesday, 23 June 200923 Comments
Flash Rave at UAB, Let’s Make This Happen!

While I was chilling with the comedians from last nights comedy show, they enlightened me about this thing called the Flash Rave. I had heard of something like this before, but I had never really grasp the full scope of how absolutely awesome a Flash Rave can actually be. It turns out that they are becoming really popular at college campuses around finals time. I started looking on YouTube and what I found was amazing. Schools like Ol Miss, Oklahoma State, and UTK to name a few have successfully pulled off badass Flash Raves in their libraries or student unions. This of course gave me the idea that WE should organize one and make it happen! Take a look at these videos to get a feel for what I am talking about:

That was amazing right? Oh there’s more:

And some more:

And one last one of course:

I promse you I will make this happen at UAB before my time is up. It’s gunna take some planning and some fighting with administration, but it could be amazing if we could pull it off. Anyone up for making this happen?

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23 Comments »

  • Molly E. says:

    Count me in, whenever it is :)

  • Jessica says:

    Um, LET’S DO THIS.

    As long as we DON’T do it to fucking Sandstorm :D

  • astone says:

    Zombie NAtion!

  • SarahHol says:

    PLEASE DO THIS!!!! But I must confess that I will be a bit jealous we ‘09 alums didn’t pull this off before we graduated…

  • Johnny T says:

    Some Mortal Kombat techno would just about do it. If you get the school’s permission to use the emergency text system, you’d get just about every student to go when and where. Very impromptu.

  • astone says:

    I wish we could use the emergency text system! But it would take a nuclear explosion before UAB decided to use that shit for real

  • jimifrtz says:

    uh yea….the fritzster is DEFINITELY on board for this shit

  • acochran says:

    I’m down

  • jmeier says:

    I don’t know what you’re talking about.
    At all.

    (it must include Sandstorm)
    (send me a text)

  • astone says:

    Dunna Dunna duh…
    Dunna Dunna duh…
    Dunna Dunna duh Dunna dunna dunna dah….

    that was supposed to be the start of sandstorm….

  • adamblak says:

    If Iranians can pull off a revolution without SMS, we can pull off a flash rave without UAB’s emergency SMS. This is in the bag, and Sarah and Jordan can come too (you two are making me feel old).

  • Sara L says:

    I’m so coming home from ttown for this when it happens.

  • Molly P says:

    THIS MUST HAPPEN.

  • Sarah Mathilde says:

    I would do this, hands down! It looks pretty badass!

  • astone says:

    Awesome, we’re going to try and make this happen!

  • Caleb Light says:

    YES YES YES! I have wanted this since I heard about this in high school!!!

  • Grant C. says:

    I think the main question is where to have it? I think a flash rave/midnight breakfast would dominate around midterm in the fall.

  • astone says:

    I have heard suggestions like HUC, Commons, The Green…I’m open for suggestions, I’ll start getting it organized soon

  • McSpazzypants says:

    Dude. All my life, I’ve wanted to go to one of these things. We gotta make this happen. And funky clothing is a mandatory. I’ll go out and buy a “Cat in the Hat”-hat and everything if this happens. MAKE IT HAPPEN, DAMMIT.

  • Mr. Z says:

    I wanna go crowd-surfing after seeing that second video.

  • astone says:

    All of this is about to get organized, stay tuned!

  • Mr. Z says:

    If you need some good techno/trance beats, I can definitely help hook you up with some. A handful of them aren’t in English, but c’mon, who listens to trance/techno music for the lyrics?

  • [...] month I made a post proposing that we should have a Flash Rave at UAB (go ahead and read it if you haven’t). When I proposed the idea, I didn’t know how well [...]




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