Here's something random that might cheer you up. March 22 was International Pillow Fight Day. Pillow fights were organized in cities across the world including: Vancouver, New York, London, Melbourne, Copenhagen, LA, Chicago etc.
I'm going to have to mark this in my calendar for next year... because it looks like way to much fun. Maybe Toronto will be involved next year.
Check out:
Treehugger's article - Taking back the Streets
PillowFightDay.com
YouTube Video's
From the Pillow Fight Day website:
About The Urban Playground Movement
All over the world, groups like us organize free, fun, all ages, non-commercial public events. From a massive Mobile Clubbing event in a London train station to a giant pillow fight near the Eiffel Tower in Paris to a subway party beneath the streets of Toronto, it is clear that the urban playground is growing around the world, leaving more public and more social cities in its wake. This is the urban playground movement, a playful part of the larger public space movement.
One of our goals is to make these unique happenings in public space become a significant part of popular culture, partially replacing passive, non-social, branded consumption experiences like watching television, and consciously rejecting the blight on our cities caused by the endless creep of advertising into public space. The result, we hope, will be a global community of participants, not consumers, in a world where people are constantly organizing and attending these happenings in every major city in the world.
This project, Pillow Fight Day 2008, is a collaboration of many people who comprise a loose, decentralized network of urban playground event organizers all over the world.
We will soon be launching the website UrbanPlaygrounds.net, an international website for people who attend these events. Stay tuned :)
Posts
