Friday, March 03, 2006

More Pics of Pillow fight

More pics. Notice the feathers on the ground

More Pics, this time you can see me and Stuart.
That's me in the foreground.
Close up of Stuart.

Clear pic of crowd. Another. Pic of a crowd cheer signaling break or restart. Not all the pillows made it home alive. In the crowd. It's raining feathers!!. I yelled often "Get the Red M&M". Again with the M&M. That's ME on the left. The Chaos!

UPDATE: I found some U-Tube videos here. If you check them all out, you will note that in #3 you can see me towards the end.

Portland Pillow Fight

Imagine... the city of Portland's city center at 6:59 pm on a Friday night. Fifteen minutes earlier, the Pioneer Plaza was starting to gather a crowd, but now, 6:59, the place is packed with people carrying backpacks or who look fat. Some are wearing costumes. You notice a lot of people around the edges carrying cameras. The clock strikes 7:00pm and everyone else suddenly whips out a pillow and a massive 500 person pillow fight ensues. Feathers fill the air as pillows are destroyed. Cheers and jeers fly from the crowd as the game is started and paused. You might consider how much exercise a pillow fight lasting 20 minutes or longer can be. But the game lasted and lasted, pausing and restarting several times.

It was a blast. Several hundred people having a spontaneous pillow fight. I will update this post as I find more on the web about it.
A slideshow of pics of the fight
A myspace page on it.

I hope to have KGW's video footage link soon with my friend Stuart Smith in the background.

UPDATE: Wikipedia entry on pillow fight mobbing.