Engaging in a soft revolution
Several hundred people heeded the call to BYOP (bring your own pillow) to Pershing Square on Saturday in honor of World Pillow Fight Day. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
L.A. Burners hosted the downtown Los Angeles edition of the global pillow-fighting event. Despite the maelstrom of flying feathers, there were a few rules: Only soft pillows allowed; remove glasses before joining the fray; and don’t swing at people with cameras. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
A pillow-fighter’s hair is littered with feathers. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Organizers of Los Angeles Pillow Fight Day made clear they were only going so far as instigating the fluffy anarchy. “Who is in charge? -- No one is in charge.” (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Jamie Rutt of Studio City makes a feather angel after pillow-fighting with hundreds of others Saturday at Pershing Square. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Safira VanderZee, center, participates in the Los Angeles event, as others were scattering feathers in Amsterdam; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Atlanta; Belgrade, Serbia; Boston; Boulder, Colo.; and Budapest, Hungary. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
A pillow fighter declares victory at Pershing Square. The World Pillow Fight Day was organized as an urban playground movement to get folks’ keisters off the couch and into public places. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)