{"id":13667,"date":"2011-05-23T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=13667"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T10:50:06","slug":"grandrapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/grandrapids\/","title":{"rendered":"An astonishing achievement by the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GRLipDub?sk=wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13668 lazyload\" title=\"188053_158257314242251_8174313_n\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/188053_158257314242251_8174313_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"279\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/279;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13668\" title=\"188053_158257314242251_8174313_n\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/188053_158257314242251_8174313_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"279\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I have ever featured a youtube video that I have come across before, things like this get picked up by so many people and I like to keep my blog a little bit unique but this was just epic and it had me grinning ear to ear. A fantastic achievment by the city of Grand Rapids, MI in response to Newsweek magazine which ran an article saying their city is a dying one. You don&#8217;t get much more of a two fingers to that than this.<\/p>\n<p>One shot, terrifically choreographed with 5000 real people. They closed the whole damn city down for this. Now this is one ambitious video and they bloody pulled it off. I wonder how many rehearsals they did for this!?<\/p>\n<p>Watch it a couple of times and watch the people in the background. Made me chuckle even more.<\/p>\n<p>From the BTS it looks like it was shot on a JVC Pro HD camera.<\/p>\n<p>Nice easy edit this video for sure! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GRLipDub?sk=wall\">Check out their facebook page here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPjjZCO67WI?hd=1\" width=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5mEfDka4w6M?hd=1\" width=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/grandrapids\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[615,356,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}