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Pulled from our tips page: this Saturday is World Pillow Fight Day, and public pillow fights are being organized in cities from Beijing to Boise.
Similar events have been covered by the –ists before; urban public pillow fights are not a new concept. The Chicago Pillow Fight Club will be hosting the local celebration of Pillow Fight Day, taking place Saturday at 2 p.m. in front of the Art Institute. Sometimes we wonder how similar undercover public events can work within the stoic operating guidelines of a big city, but as always, the rules are simple:
- Everyone is welcome
- Wait for the signal
- Don’t hit anyone without a pillow, or with a camera
- Try not to hurt anyone
- BYOP (obviously)
Chicago Pillow Fight Club also promises prizes for best decorated pillow, a costume contest, and a chance to win “Official Pillow Fight Club Member” pillowcases.
Image via Chicago Pillow Fight’s Myspace page
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Thanks! I just penciled in "Don't go anywhere near the Art Institute" for Saturday.
(Don't mind me, I'm old and cranky)
Sophisticated big-city living.
Ditto, on both counts.
It's all fun and games until someone catches a zipper in the eye. Also, getting clocked in the occiput/neck region really sucks.
(why yes, I do have an older brother, why do you ask?)
How are we defining "pillow" here? Does a bar of soap wrapped in a pillowcase (a la "Full Metal Jacket") qualify?
On a separate note, any opinions as to whether or not "President of Chicago Pillow Fight Club" is something one should include on a resume?
some people have way too much time on their hands
Jesus. When is Gen X, Gen Y, going to grow the fuck up? Slapping each other with pillows in the street so they can post it on youtube or facebook or blog it...meh.
(I'm not old, but this kind of foolishness makes me pine for elder-status)
Most things are better with safety goggles.
simplecreature:
At least they're not hurting anyone. At my wife's school, every time there is a fight (which is daily) there are students recording the fights on their cell phones so they post them.
I fear modern American life is devolving into an extended childhood followed by a short midlife crisis followed by (given the looming problems with the federal budget) a retirement spent in near poverty.
But if they did it with soap, at least I would watch it on TV.
Just when you thought you couldn't squeeze any more doucheness out of North Brooklyn. It's Pillow Fight Club.
Posted by diehipster at 3/6/2008 9:16 PM and is filed under uncategorized
Picture this. You're at work, the day is dragging, you can't wait to go home. Would you believe that over in Bushwick, Brooklyn in a pre-paid by Mommy and Daddy loft, some of the world's greatest artists and musicians are running a pillowfight league? Yes, the kind of pillow fights you had when you were ten years old. But these people are in their 20's and 30's! Oh the irony. Yes, yes.... us lame natives finally get it, you're just so youthful and proud and you're going to keep on showing us aren't you? There's nothing like stomping all over a bunch of bedbug infested mattresses with your filthy Chuck Taylors and then sleeping on them right?
This is the current injury report:
Josh - Sprained i-Pod
Todd - Cracked left lens of thickframes
Megan - Vitamin Water on the Knee
Leigh - Torn Tight Jeans
Molly - Shattered Parents VISA card
Tim - Bruised Fedora Hat
Here is an article from Gothamist . There are some good comments on there like:
"Hipster scums have ruined another fun childhood activity. At this rate adult hide and seek or musical chairs are gonna be ruined by hipster irony soon! Someone please burn Billyburg down!"
and...
"Here's what happened: coddled twenty-something hipsters who never had any discipline in their lives find growing up extremely uncomfortable so they need to revert to their childhood in the hopes that their doting parents will save them."
Here is an actual video of the hipsters in action. Even the Dancing Douchebag of Bedford Avenue joins in on the fun. You'll see him, he plays in the league in between performances. If this pillow fight club doesn't prove that Brooklyn is one Salvation Army sock away from being one big Midwest college campus, then nothing will. Just get out of NYC you childish, ironic, filthy motherfuckers.
im not that familiar with brooklyn, but your injury report seemed pretty funny
Okay, I'm obviously in the minority here, but what's wrong with having some fun on a Saturday afternoon? No one's getting hurt, people are out on the streets laughing and meeting new people, and right after, you can go to the museum.
Sounds like a hell of a lot better time than going to work.
JHop: nothing's wrong with it. Some people just don't know how to have fun.
Y'know, when I was a kid pillow fights weren't passive affairs. We'd WHUP on each other, trying to knock each other off the bed, or to the floor or simply smack the shit out of each other. We also had rock fights, played 'pinners' (handball) where the goal was to smack someone HARD with the little rubber ball and other mean-ass games.
My cousins who did all this violence? A Special Ed teacher, a bio-chemist and a Marine. None of whom will be wanking with pillows in front of the Art institute come saturday.
Oh, come on - this is hilarious! Let them have some fun.
what i had posted up above was simply cut and pasted from a website called diehipster.com. it was the first thing i thought of when i saw this article.
btu seriously, theres gotta be something better to do with your time than ride the train into the city with your pillow. im afraid some manorexic twit might be broken in half on the ArtIC steps before everyones eyes
Sounds a little corny to me, but who am I to judge. I've participated in an event in Wisconsin called "clown attack" for the past two years. Close to 100 people dress up like clowns and then go bar hopping. Why do we do it, because it's FUN. Anyone who tries to turn these things into a greater commentary on the state of humanity needs to grow up themselves. Or better yet, get a hobby. Life is too short to judge others for something that has no detrimental impact on the communtiy at large.
Agreed, just sounds like a harmless, fun way to meet people on a Saturday afternoon.
Sure are a lot of wet blankets in the commenters, I've noticed in the past few weeks.
I dunno. I'm just scared of pillows. I had a pair of glasses broken and shatter on my face by a friend's older brother when I was ten in a pillow fight gone bad, and I've just never looked at a pillow in mid-air the same since.
that's funnier than the no pants thing on the train
i think it's only a matter of time before bar crawls are replaced with ironic graham cracker and milk story circles.
I don't think this pillow-fighting should provoke anti-hipster talk.
Hipsters are bad when they look down their noses at other people. Yet this pillow-fighting thing, if indeed it is even in the hipster category, seems all in good fun and not at all high-horsed. I don't detect snobbishness among the participants, just a few loose down feathers.
Also, so what if it is copied from another city. If it's good, then it's OK to copy it. A fear of copying suggests that we are insecure about our city.
Fads are OK. Let the pillow fighting continue, and let the pillow fighters be free of criticism.
Woah now, celerysalt. I've got to say that there's nothing ironic or hipster about graham cracker and milk story circles. I'd love that--spesh if it included some fire gel, marshmallows, and Hershey's chocolate.
I think I just wrote my grocery list for tonight.
better that than protesting the war. I hear its being sponsored by urban outfitters
If I was in the bar and 100 clowns came in, I'm not sure if I would die of terror or soil myself first. A clown bar crawl is the scariest thing I can imagine.
UTV:
I think that's the point!
Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.
Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.
Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.
Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.
I'll be the guy at the pillow fight protesting the war. I will follow matty's advice and also pillow fight/protest without pants.
I will also bring my Free Tibet pillowcase.
This event would be way cooler if all the participants were females. Wearing only lingerie...
I'm sorry but it had to be said.
I hope one day I am leaving a bar pissed drunk and see a "clown attack" walking towards me down the other end of the street. Just imagine...
Thank you to the Chicagoist!
I hope that you all can come.
I know those Bushwick kids can be rough, what with their illegal dancing and pigeon racing.
But I assure you, after two years strong of public fights, the only casualty were a couple of feather pillows. Once, my ex-roommate's glasses fell off her head, and a stranger picked them up and handed them to her.
We are very much looking forward to Saturday.
Best,
Heather Mitchell
President of the Chicago Pillow Fight Club
Yes, my employers love it, thank you very much
And, it's got additional benefits, let me tell you....