Pillow Fight @ Dundas Square

Last Sunday I observed one of the craziest urban adventures yet. Kevin and Lori of New Mind Space organized a massive pillow fight at Dundas Square. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 adrenaline fuelled PJ wearing fighters showed up, pillow in hand.

There was some confusion and concern when people realized that an anti-gun protest was occurring in the square at the same time. Organizers of both events got together and decided to coordinate their efforts. The pillow fight was initiated by a call from the stage to use “pillows, not guns”. The pillow fight quickly overshadowed the protest for its 30 minute duration.

Generally I feel that the two events co-existed in an acceptable way. The one exception being when a mother of a gun victim was telling the story of her murders son while the pillow fight was in full swing. In the end, life must go on. Public spaces must be shared. And the pillow fight was in no way being directly insensitive to the spirit of the protest. The protest its self had speakers that were aggressive, confrontational and practically encouraging violence towards political figures for not doing enough to stop the gun violence. So let’s move on...

The pictures are a lot of fun, so check them out! I probably should have used a faster shutter speed, and a UV filter would have been really helpful, but this is a pillow fight, not a sunset, so enjoy the pics for what they are.

Photographic highlights for me were:
- pillows exploding!
- the little kids taking on the big kids! Hell, all the kids were so cute!!
- pillows being thrown in the air!
- red ninja pillow figher & sad pillow girl
- the old-skool-raver pillow fight battle!
- lovers and fighters (aka make-out couple)
- nap time…
- and capturing an amazing picture of a pillow being thrown over my head. You can actually see the feathers through the pillow case!!!