Zombie Walk!
Last Saturday, we attended the Vancouver Zombie Walk which is more or less a flash mob event. Good fun - estimates of around 300 people dressed up as the living dead in various states of decay and shuffled from the art gallery downtown, through the Pacific Centre Mall, to the Skytrain station, boarded the skytrain to Main st. and stumbled 30 blocks up to a graveyard.
Some of the costumes were amazing and it was worth it to see the looks on people's faces as a 3-block long procession of undead marched along Vancouver.
We ended up arriving late so we missed the initial meeting spot so there were 4 of us, covered in blood wandering around downtown looking for a crew of zombies. Can you imagine randomly running into something that looks like this on a sunny saturday afternoon? (we all totally forgot to bring cameras - photos courtesy of a whole bunch of people on flickr and LJ).
I may have been dead, but I was also fucking metal (you can see em skulking in the background too).
The procession through the mall was incredible. Felt like a scene right out of the original Dawn of the Dead. We were defintiely making some political statement about modern consumer culture turning us into the walking dead. Yup.
This guy was one of my favorites
Me and em missed the skytrain ride cause I didn't want to leave my car downtown but it looks like it was much fun.
Lots of swarming and banging on windows was had
Zombie punks!
When we got to main, the numbers were geting overwhelming
So much so that we had our own police escort. Funny story: when the zombies were gathered outside of the art gallery, there was apparently some war protest scheduled to go down and the cops thought that we were the protest. The quickly called the US Embassy to warn them about hundreds of young people ready to march on the embassy. They were rather confused when no one showed up.
random swarming!
One of the best parts was all the random bloodstains that were left all over town:
hundreds of other photographs available here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vancouver_zombiewalk_2005/
Some of the costumes were amazing and it was worth it to see the looks on people's faces as a 3-block long procession of undead marched along Vancouver.
We ended up arriving late so we missed the initial meeting spot so there were 4 of us, covered in blood wandering around downtown looking for a crew of zombies. Can you imagine randomly running into something that looks like this on a sunny saturday afternoon? (we all totally forgot to bring cameras - photos courtesy of a whole bunch of people on flickr and LJ).
I may have been dead, but I was also fucking metal (you can see em skulking in the background too).
The procession through the mall was incredible. Felt like a scene right out of the original Dawn of the Dead. We were defintiely making some political statement about modern consumer culture turning us into the walking dead. Yup.
This guy was one of my favorites
Me and em missed the skytrain ride cause I didn't want to leave my car downtown but it looks like it was much fun.
Lots of swarming and banging on windows was had
Zombie punks!
When we got to main, the numbers were geting overwhelming
So much so that we had our own police escort. Funny story: when the zombies were gathered outside of the art gallery, there was apparently some war protest scheduled to go down and the cops thought that we were the protest. The quickly called the US Embassy to warn them about hundreds of young people ready to march on the embassy. They were rather confused when no one showed up.
random swarming!
One of the best parts was all the random bloodstains that were left all over town:
hundreds of other photographs available here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vancouver_zombiewalk_2005/