International Pillow Fight Day ‘09 – Los Angeles

Holy flying feathers, Batman. Sean O’Brien effectively captured last Saturday’s melee @ Pershing Square with aplomb, and then set the whole thing to an appropriate cut by Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Watch for yourself and check out more of Sean’s work here.

» International Pillow Fight Day (official site)
» Does it Offend You, Yeah? + Yo Majesty @ El Rey Thursday May 2 2008

From top to bottom, in reverse alphabetical order: We Are Wolves, The Submarines, The Presets, Mugison, The Mae Shi, Noah and the Whale, Nico Vega, Koss Silent Disco, Hercules & Love Affair, Grand Ole Party, Gogol Bordello, Datarock, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Bitter:Sweet and Adam Freeman.

You may have spied it while stumbling drunkenly to your car after that last, unwise shot of Patron at La Cita. Peering over the roll-down bars, you’d spy a cavernous, basement-like structure, quiet in the late night hours that envelops Downtown Los Angeles. But visit during the day, and you’ll find a bustling market full of food stalls selling a wide variety of yummy ethnic fast-food, cheaper than the dirt they were grown in produce stands, and a variety of random vendors selling everything from mole by the pound to necklace charms depicting Jesus on a cross (with your sweetie’s name engraved underneath, natch).

Grand Central Market has been around since 1917. Across the street from the also historic, now out of commission Angel’s Flight, Angelenos would take a penny-ride to the open-air market which met the needs of newly immigrated families from all over the world. It’s been remodeled many times throughout the years, but it still has that old-world feel to it, which is a nice contrast to the high rise buildings and power-suited yuppies just a few blocks away in the Financial District.
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Losanjealous’ own Mair sends in these photos of the 100 goats currently being used to clear the roughage on Angels Knoll downtown. See ‘em while they last. Additional photos: one, two

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Did You Know? One of the earliest features on Losanjealous discussed similar lawnmowing goats – in San Pedro, back in 2005.

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