Today in Ballard there was a flash mob pillow fight. The plan was for a whistle to blow at 2:22 pm and for people to pull their pillows out and start swinging. After a few minutes, the whistle was going to blow again and people would walk away like nothing had happened. Although it started as planned, somewhere in the middle of the scrum, a feather pillow burst and when the whistle blew a second time, there was no acting like nothing had just happened. Feathers were everywhere:

During the fight was a ton of fun though it lasted a long time and got tiring. I know how wimpy that sounds, but you try swinging a pillow for 5 minutes while also being attacked from all sides by 50 other people wielding pillows. It’s a lot of work.

This is my favorite picture. Note the people on the right side.

Then there’s what it looked like from within the fight:

But a pillow fight with 50 people is not static or easy to comprehend like that. So I took some video while fighting too:

Special thanks to My Ballard for tipping me off to the event. They have some cool photos too. I also put up a couple of other pictures.

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