Side effects may include: grinning til it hurts, joyous tears and a happy swelling heart… Or just joy. Which totally works too.

The most impressive thing about this particular flashmob? No instruments were used. The “human orchestra” mimics the sound of trumpets, violins, and drums, among other instruments.

The crowd, made up of more than 500 actors, dressed up as taxi drivers, cabin crew, baggage handlers, and members of the public. They burst into dance sequences throughout the day as an estimated 80,000 people passed through Terminal 5 on arrival.

via Eugene at MyModern Met

“Airports help to put us in touch with the idea of alternatives — they relativize us. They make us think that right now, be it at 10 a.m. or 3 p.m., somewhere on the other side of the globe, very different things are happening. They do that very basic task of the places of travel: to jolt us into remembering that the world is stranger, more exciting, more various than we imagine it when we are in familiar surroundings, and in danger of boredom and routine.”

-Alain de Botton

via Ben Casnocha: The Blog
from the Los Angeles Times