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Lying Down Game. About Lying Down Game, also known as planking in Australia, is a mass-participatory meme that involves having one’s photograph taken whilst lying rigidly face down in public space and then sharing the image via internet. Since becoming popular through Facebook around June 2009, the viral game has spawned thousands of photos of people lying flat in public landscapes across the world: Precursors A plat ventre is a French art website started by Alexis Clairet and Stenkat in 2004 with the prospects to host pictures from people posing “à plat ventre” (On one’s belly). The first picture, dating from the 3rd of July 2004. In parallel with the Lying Down game phenomenon, they had a smaller but increasing popularity on their own, having several Facebook groups, and a website. Origin In 2006, two UK friends Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon created a Facebook group, which attracted over 1500 facebook users within the first two weeks.

Aims & Rules of Lying Down Game More Public the Better. Spread. Lying Down Game - LyingDownGame.org , from facebook.com,youtube.com and more! Planking too! Face Down! The lying down game. Laying Down Game. Stocking - 20 Photos Of People Stocking: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Stocking Is the New Planking. Planking. Planks, But No Planks: The Fatal Idiocy of “Planking” On the off chance that you lead a remotely fulfilling life and were busy working, studying, or having sex—even alone—on Wednesday, you may have missed the “First Annual Global Planking Day” and been none the worse for it. You might even be one of the rare souls lucky enough never to have heard of “planking.”

I sincerely regret being the messenger who delivers the bad news to you, because even learning about it will render you permanently less intelligent. Here’s the simplest definition I’ve found: Planking is the practice of lying down flat as if to mimic a wooden plank. A more complicated explication that still fails to make it sound any smarter: A fast-spreading global fad, planking involves people being photographed while lying face-down in a public place and posting the images on the Internet. Helpful instructions for the would-be planker: Lie face down, straight as a board, pointed toes, arms to the side with straight pointed fingers.

Yes, I’m looking. Plankest.com. Become a Member and Upload your Planks. Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game. Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game Article by Delana, filed under Urban Exploration in the Travel category. It’s happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of famous landmarks – absolutely anywhere you can conceivably fit a horizontal human body, you’ll find someone playing the bizarre game. The weirder the place and the more people looking on, the better. You may ask why, but the people behind The Lying Down Game would rather ask “Why not?” Lying Down Game creators Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon describe their creation as “Parkour…for those who can’t be arsed.” In other words, this is the lazy person’s urban navigation sport. Feel brave enough to participate? The game has been around as a Facebook group since 2006, but the meme really reached its peak in the summer of 2009.

Find an odd place and lie face down... Is this the most pointless internet craze yet? By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 14:05 GMT, 9 July 2009 They lie rigidly face-down on rooftops, postboxes, luggage racks and even in the engine of a jumbo jet. It's the latest and perhaps the most bizarre internet phenomenon yet to sweep the globe. Several Facebook groups set up in honour of 'the Lying Down Game' display thousands of photographs of people lying face-down in progressively odder locations. Out of their trees: Three girls take the Lying Down Game to new heights by balancing on branches Watch your swing: Another Facebook fan poses acting as a human tee at a golf range It seems no location is out of bounds, with people lying down roofs, in the middle of the road, in front of tanks, across bars in pubs and on table football games. Participants are told there are two aims to the challenge; that the lying down should be as public as possible and that as many people as possible should be involved.

Mr Wood, 34, said: 'I started doing it when I was on a lads' holiday in Magaluf. Tod beim "Planking": Er starb für ein doofes Foto - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Netzwelt. "Es ist krank, wie viel Aufmerksamkeit Ihr bekommt, nur weil ein Mensch gestorben ist", kommentiert Julia Gillard auf der Facebook-Seite der Gruppe "Planking Australia". Wenig später setzt sie nach: "Ich appelliere dringend an australische Bürger, die auf Bahnschienen planken, sofort damit aufzuhören!

" Zwei Fragen drängen sich da auf: Was in aller Welt ist "Planking"? Und was ist daran so wichtig, dass sich Australiens amtierende Ministerpräsidentin derzeit alle paar Minuten dazu äußert? Die zweite Frage ist einfacher zu beantworten als die erste: Es ist wohl kaum Julia Gillard selbst, die da posted. Die empört-verantwortungsvolle Pose ist wohl eher Teil des reichlich schrägen Humors, der so typisch für die Planking-Szene zu sein scheint. Die besteht aus Menschen, die Spaß daran finden, sich in einer normierten, immer gleichen Pose in möglichst absurden Situationen fotografieren zu lassen und das Bild im Internet zu veröffentlichen.

Begriffsdefinition: Was ist ein Mem? Zu viel des Guten. LeisureDive.com | The Official Home of the Leisure Dive. Owling - 'Owling' Is The New 'Planking': Pics, Videos, Links, News. Owling on Twitter. Horsemanning Horsemaning | The Official Website | Better Than Planking - Horsemaning around the office Pictures.

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Planking. Planking Planking (von engl. planking = „Beplankung“, „Planken“ und to plank = „beplanken“) bzw. Lying Down Game (engl.: „Das Hinlegen-Spiel“) ist ein Internet-Phänomen. Dabei legt sich eine Person mit dem Gesicht nach unten und seitlich angelegten Armen, als ob man in Habt-Acht-Stellung stehen würde, meist an öffentlichen Plätzen steif hin und lässt sich fotografieren oder filmen. The Lying Down Game[Bearbeiten] Gary Clarkson (* 1982) und Christian Langdon (* 1985) und weitere Freunde aus Somerset, England, begannen sich 1997/98 zu Hause an allen möglichen Plätzen stocksteif hinzulegen und nannten es Lying Down Game. Planking auf einer Baustelle Spätestens seit Juli 2010 ist es auch unter dem Namen „Planking“ bekannt.[8][9] Potentielle Vorgänger[Bearbeiten] Lying Man in New York[Bearbeiten] A plat ventre[Bearbeiten] Alexis Clairet[23] und Stenkat[24] starteten 2004 die französische Kunstsite A plat ventre[25] (frz.

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