I didn't realize Toronto had such strange events. I should get out more.

awsome! i was hoping one of you toronto photobloggers would get some of this. i read an anouncment for the event on boingboing yesterday i think. looks like great fun.

Great capture!

You've captured the spirit of the fight very well. Excellent work! : )

Looks like fun.
Nice photos I like how the feathers are frozen in the air in the bottom one.

These pics are great in capturing the scene. I especially like the first one: time seems frozen.

That's awesome!! Must be a Canadian thing...people would probably end up angry and bloody most places in the US. Is it an annual thing? Great shots.

Definitely, that's something we have to import to the Basque Country ;-)

Thats sportive in true sense. never knew such things ever happened anywhere in the world - makes me feel ignorant now.

The first frame is beautifully timed i should say and the second - the man with red hair - Wow expressions there.

Excellent. Some good harmless fun. Nice to see.

Oh, these made me laugh out loud - TY! I think I shall go round with a secret smile all day just thinking about the pillow fight!

I have no doubts now that the game Sims is made by Canadians!

Great shots! I laughed out loud when they loaded (and nearly choked on my tea), and have had to explain to everyone in the office what I was looking at. They like them too!

Top stuff!

Top pic is great. Love it.

sweet, nice action shot, never heard of a public pillow fight, learn something new every day

Doesn't look quite as hazardous as the shaving-cream fight I covered over the summer, but a chance to dodge flying object to get a decent shot none the less. Nice shots.

Hello:

An interesting event. Althought I think these two images would fall in the lowest 10% of all of your DDOI images, they are still both interesting to examine closely.

The quality of your photography overall is amazing and wonderful.

PipeTobacco
http://frumpyprofessor.blogspot.com

That is the biggest gayest slumber party I've ever seen!
And you captured it well my friend!! I think I prefer to see people hitting each other with pillows than bullets. I like the message: Let gay people run the world! The most that will happen is a big pillow fight........... And maybe some shopping.

Coop.

P.s. Is that you in the second picture on the bottom? Oh, I just realized how that sounds, teehee.

What a great idea. I did not know you guys have pillow fight event in TO.

Ha, sometimes the comments here are almost as entertaining as the pictures... "pillow fights and shopping"!

Thanks for sharing! I had been looking forward to it all week, but at the last minute didn't make it. Great to find all these photos around the web.

the first photo is an amazing capture. they're both very good. I wish we had huge pillow fights here.

Nice pictures, especially the first one! I think someone already said it, but it really does look like time was frozen in that shot. Didn't know the T-Dot had such wacky events like this, lol!

Strange day on ddoi. Pillow fight on your site and a shot of a decrepit bowling lane ball receiver at a psychiatric hospital - well I presume it's the hospital. I wonder at the mess on the floor, but that's to be expected with mental problems.

I'm wondering what your experience was at the Whitby hospital? I once did time in 1968 in the 100 year old stone building in Toronto that was 999 Queen West - to prove I was sane enough to go to jail for possesion of marijuana. That place had chains on the walls in the basement for the prisoners - uh - excuse me - patients who they had no drugs for in the old days. In my time there those rooms were for storage. Now there's a clean new place numbered 1001 I hear. Psychiatric hospitals are a horrendous lesson in life.

Uh, BTW. Good images.

hey, they did the same thing in budapest! funny photos

Nice photos, no question about that, but why in the world would someone go pillow fighting?
I mean...why?

Hey Sam,
What kinda post-processing did you do here? Reminds me of the shots of the comic book author. The red hair in the second shot really stands out.
Blaine

Now that looks like fun (to photograph, anyway)!

Pillow fight on the street? wow~unbelievable~
Very nice and interesting shots!

Odd event!

boing boing blog has linked to your flicker set of this event.

love the hair and colors, you do great saturation work. keep 'em coming.

love the first one. at initial sight, before seeing the second one, thought it was some domestic fight... Wowed that it's public

I missed this event? Damn! Like the 1st pic... not sure about the 2nd one.

I love the colours here too; it's got a bleach-bypass aesthetic too it. Higher contrast, lower saturation...what was your post-processing on these photos and the flickr set?

I watched the slide show on flickr and, I just happened to have a fisherspooner song playing
and it made a perfect little improv music video.

optimistic from art

Very funny - good capture of the action!

These are great action shots, particularly the first one. It's difficult to retain so much clarity amidst such chaos. Good work.