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# Amanda Palmer Crowdsources New Video, Tweets Fans For Flash Mob Of Extras
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/amanda-palmer-crowdsources-new-video-tweets-fans-for-flash-mob-of-extras/
- Published: 2009-08-05T06:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-08-05T06:01:00.000Z
- Description: Leave it to Amanda Palmer to combine crowdsourcing, Twitter and a flash mob to both give her LA fans a treat and successfully create a new ultra-low budget video. According. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/08/amanda-palmer-crowdsources-new-video-tweets-fans-for-flash-mob-of-e
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Marketing, YouTube & Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

[![Amanda Palmer standing](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a4c69d9a970b-200wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a4c69d9a970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com) Leave it to[ Amanda Palmer](https://www.hypebot.com/interview-amanda-palmer/) to combine [crowdsourcing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing?ref=hypebot.com), [Twitter](http://twitter.com/hypebot?ref=hypebot.com) and a [flash mob](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%5Fmob?ref=hypebot.com) to both give her LA fans a treat and successfully create a new ultra-low budget video. 

According to fellow Palmer [supporter](http://techdirt.com/articles/20090731/1920485735.shtml?ref=hypebot.com) and Hypebot fan [Mike Masnick](https://www.hypebot.com/an-interview-with-techdirts-mike-masnick/), "one of her fans suggested the morning of the gig that she learn this song by Cat Stevens. So she did. And she went to the beach and a bunch of her fans showed up and she played some music and everyone was happy. And then they realized that the setting was great to film a music video. One of the people there was [Danna Kinsky](http://www.dannakinsky.com/?ref=hypebot.com), who hardly knew Amanda, but is a filmmaker, and had her camera. Another person there was [Lindsey Barnes](http://www.lindseybyrnes.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a photographer, who agreed to shoot some photos of the group. And, with the help of (actress) [Kirsten Vangsness](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1494536/?ref=hypebot.com) to corral and organize people, they created an impromptu music video…The whole thing (except editing) was thought up, organized and completed in 20 minutes." 

**Watch the video** all the way to the end**.** After the song is done, Palmer shares a bit about how the video was made:
  
  
**More: Exclusive Hypebot interview with [Amanda 'Fucking' Palmer ](https://www.hypebot.com/interview-amanda-palmer/)**