This just in from an anonymous source…making its way back around to the US, a massive Pillow Fight is being planned for 6pm on Valentine’s Day (February 14th) at San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza (at Market and Embarcadero). Here’s more on the history of Pillow Fight Club.
It’s not a flash mob, it’s a
PILLOW FIGHT!!!
Rules:
1) Tell everyone you know about PILLOW FIGHT!!!
2) Wait for the Ferry Building clock to strike 6:00pm
3) Don’t hit anyone with out a pillow (unless they want it)
4) Don’t hit anyone with a camera
5) HAVE FUN!!!(Rain plan: put your pillow in a plastic bag, see Rules 1 – 5)
Links:
UPDATE: The San Francisco Pillow Fight 2006 was a huge success! Photos are now online.
photo credit: Sam Javanrouh (from last November’s Toronto Pillow Fight)
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Brilliant!
How do you start a Pillow Fight Club in your own city? Rochester, NY desperately, desperately needs this.
Sorry to burst the pillowlicios bubble, but there’s already been one in the US. Right here in Flint… there weren’t even any knives or cops either.
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We need a pillow fight in Los Angeles!
Alas, I do not have a pillow: just this pillowcase full of grapefruit and bars of soap!
Please bring only pillows filled with plant materials (like cotton, hemp), not animal byproducts (like down) or synethetics which will wash into the Bay and harm marine life, thank you.
How to host a Pillow Fight:
1) Live in a city w/ enough of a freak-friendly demographic for the thing to fly, and hopefully self-propagate, as this one has.
2) Pick a suitable venue; you want an open space in a central location to make it convenient for a large number of people to get to.
3) Write the rules (starting time/signal is the only unique element to this), and collect some links and images from other pillow fights so people will know *what* in addition to where and when.
4) Apply the first rule of Pillow Fight.
Which is to say, all it really takes is a few web posts. If you hustle, you might still be able to get the word out for V-Day in your town.
p1ll0wf1ght AT hotmail DOT com
I hope some young ladies show up in lingerie. It isn’t a pillow fight unless at least some of the participants are in bras and undies.
It’d be neat to do a drive by pillowing…
Pillow fighting has reach the shores of the Pacific! EVERYONE must be there. Call in well, eat your homework, blame nothing on the dog and have a pillow fight, OUTDOORS too. My only reason for comming to SF on V-Day is for this pillow fight.
ouh!! It’s a so wonderful idea than we fight too the same date!!;)
thanks for your post (beautiful blog)
see: here and here
much love and moBs
For your promotional pleasure:
A new SF Pillow Fight Club flyer.
And a cut-and-pasteable link to the same image on imageshack:
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7871/sfpillowfightyr2vl.jpg
whoever made the comment about filling a pillowcase with bars of soap is an asshole.
there was actually a little-known pillowfight in san jose the other month. not many people are aware of this.
Are there any women interested in a flash mob oral sex event?
We are 7 HUNG smart creative educated nice guys. I am the organizer and I can even quote Camus. For instance…
“life is the sum of your choices” — camus
i have not idea what that means but it’s suppose to make girls wet
The air was thick as a blizzard with feathers. I inhaled so many that I’m still feeling a little down in the mouth.
Hi folks, added my own photos at the following link:
San Francisco Pillow Fight Photos
Enjoy and feel free to link to that page also– but please credit the work (Russ Juskalian)
Hey, looked like a TON of fun, but how did all those feathers get cleaned up?!
When is the next fight in NYC????!!!!
I wouldn’t want to be hit with a camera. Good thing that’s in the rules.
On that note, I’m bringing a camera.
When is the next Pillow Fight in San Francisco?, I want to go!!
I JUST SAW AWESOME PICTURES FROM A FEW FRIEND IN NY I HAVEEE TO GO NEXT TIME YOU GUYS HAVE THIS…THIS ALSO REMINDS ME OF “FREE HUGS” =] BE SAFE GUYS..AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN THIS WILL HAPPEN IN NY.
PEACE AND LOVE
This snarled traffic unbelievably. Many, many people with Valentine’s Day reservations at local restaurants missed their dinners.
Next time please hold this event in a place where ordinary folks’ evenings won’t be ruined, like City Hall or Moscone Center.
How many participants went out with push brooms later to clean up the mess?
how (and perhaps where) did this snarl traffic? it wasn’t held on a street, didn’t even spill over into the street.
true, many people showed up, but that’d be true no matter where it was held.
and there was also lots of traffic on market street–but that happens other times when lots of out-of-town people come to visit (e.g. xmas shopping time). hint: do not drive on market street.
Embarcadero was a parking lot starting just past the ballpark. Any nonlocals with reservations along the waterfront who did not know how to go around the blockage was hosed. Plus Market and all other side streets heading toward Embarcadero were packed. Was there something else going on? We saw a film crew RV as well as all the people carrying pillows….
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