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Thanks again to all the Thriller Dancing Die-hards who joined us on 6th Street for the Dia Day Los Muerte Parade on November 1st. If you missed it (or if you participated and want to view yourself), here are the first few videos of the event:
YouTube 1
YouTube 2
Vimeo 1
We'll have a bunch of photos and more video coming soon!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The GIANT group photo!
One more GIANT and very important photo just got uploaded by Thrill the World Austin official photographer David Hill. A tiny version is posted above, the gargantuan can be downloaded from David's blog. It's over 100MB, but totally worth the load time!
TONS of new photos and videos
I know there are a lot of photos and videos to wade through over there on the left sidebar, but there were 881 one of you! Surely you will find yourself in at least one photograph or video if you look through all those.
Some notable new selections, though:
Vimeo video by Joey Castillo- interviews as well as a portion of the performance.
Flickr photos by David Hill- High resolution and great quality images.
Also of note, of video of Thrill the World Austin was featured on FindWaldo.com because Where's Waldo was one of our undead dancers. How hilarious is that?
Some notable new selections, though:
Vimeo video by Joey Castillo- interviews as well as a portion of the performance.
Flickr photos by David Hill- High resolution and great quality images.
Also of note, of video of Thrill the World Austin was featured on FindWaldo.com because Where's Waldo was one of our undead dancers. How hilarious is that?
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thrilling Photos and Video from Austin 360
Our pal David Weaver from the Statesman A-List took a ton of cool photos from the event that you can check out on Austin360. There's lots of individual shots as well as cool scenes of the dance itself. Statesman videographer Jenni Jones' video coverage is really great too, it gives a really awesome overview of the whole day.If dancers or spectators took photos of the event, please post them to the Thrill the World Austin Facebook page. We'll be updating that page with info about next year's dance. Now that we have the record, we have to maintain it in 2009!
See you on November 1 for the encore Thriller dance in the Day of the Dead procession down Sixth Street!
Video of Austin's World Record Breaking Thriller Dance
Don't forget everyone, use those new-found skills and join us on November 1st to Thriller Dance down 6th Street!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
World Records Numbers
Did you know that we broke TWO world records today?
Last year's world record for the largest, simultaneous, (multiple location) world-wide Thriller dance was 1722. Today we almost doubled that number. Today, at the same exact time, 3960 zombies from 9 different countries in 65 different cities participated in Thrill the World (official number still to be verified). Austin contributed just under 25% of that!
The other record that we broke is the record for the largest, single location Thriller dance. The record was held by 147 zombies from a middle school in England. We knew we were going to break that record because we had that many people crammed in to our second Thriller workshop! So, we claimed that record for Austin, Texas and SMASHED that record today with 881 zombies dancing on the patio at the Long Center. Plus we did it in style. We didn't use amplified cuing, we didn't have lead dancers on a raised platform, and we didn't play the instructional video. And our zombies were some of the scariest and most creative zombies on the planet.
Top 10 cities:
1. Austin, Texas: 881
2. Gurnee, Illinois: 334
3. Seattle, Washington: 195
4. Corpus Christi, Texas: 150
5. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada: 132
6. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: 122
7. Los Angeles, California: 114
8. Bolton, England: 112
9. Somerset, England: 111
10. Bennington, Vermont: 111
Last year's world record for the largest, simultaneous, (multiple location) world-wide Thriller dance was 1722. Today we almost doubled that number. Today, at the same exact time, 3960 zombies from 9 different countries in 65 different cities participated in Thrill the World (official number still to be verified). Austin contributed just under 25% of that!
The other record that we broke is the record for the largest, single location Thriller dance. The record was held by 147 zombies from a middle school in England. We knew we were going to break that record because we had that many people crammed in to our second Thriller workshop! So, we claimed that record for Austin, Texas and SMASHED that record today with 881 zombies dancing on the patio at the Long Center. Plus we did it in style. We didn't use amplified cuing, we didn't have lead dancers on a raised platform, and we didn't play the instructional video. And our zombies were some of the scariest and most creative zombies on the planet.
Top 10 cities:
1. Austin, Texas: 881
2. Gurnee, Illinois: 334
3. Seattle, Washington: 195
4. Corpus Christi, Texas: 150
5. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada: 132
6. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: 122
7. Los Angeles, California: 114
8. Bolton, England: 112
9. Somerset, England: 111
10. Bennington, Vermont: 111
Thrill the World: Photos, Videos...
If you have photos or videos of today's event send the links to info@thrilltheworldaustin.com. [note: links have moved to the left sidebar].
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