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I took part in this huge event today. I knew it'd look cool in true slow motion, and I think I was right. Enjoy!
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  • Bill Cammack 2 months ago
    v. cool :D
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  • BorisG 2 months ago
    what camera did you use?
    this looks amazing in slomo
  • justin 2 months ago
    The wonderful Sony V1U - it does true slow motion (240 fps)
  • BorisG 2 months ago
    sex.
  • Sam Gardner 6 days ago
    Haha I own the same camera as justin johnson?!
    This looks awesome, I'm going to have to find a pillow fight in the UK to film though :S
    The shot at 02:52 is great, nice work there :D
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  • John Tan 2 months ago
    who cleans the mess?
  • justin 2 months ago
    They also organize a clean up afterwards, usually it's the folks who make the mess who stick around to gather the feathers.
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  • Riley Moragan 2 months ago
    Great song choice. :]
  • justin 2 months ago
    Haha, thanks!
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  • an-gela 2 months ago
    but these are all my fellows, what are you doing, says PILLOWMAN
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  • bk 2 months ago
    You had awesome sunlight to catch the midair feathers. I wasn't so lucky.

    Check out how the west coast did it:

    vimeo.com/814644
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  • JD 2 months ago
    surreal.
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  • goldentouchfarm 2 months ago
    Just think 5 years ago how hard it would have been to organize, capture, and share an event like this.

    Great Stuff
  • Alex Itin 2 months ago
    sure, but think if five years ago we'd organized to stop a war
    not start a pillow fight.

    A great vid, but it got me thinking about the state of The State
  • ishan 2 months ago
    word.
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  • Chris Gampat 2 months ago
    Haha, i was there too. I took a camera though because I didn't want my HV20 getting messed up. Plus, i got in there: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/gallery/1734
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  • Chris Gampat 2 months ago
    BTW- I think you threw a pillow at me...did you start throwing them after a while? Haha
  • justin 2 months ago
    Haha --- nope! I went into the mix and hit some heads, but never threw anything.
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  • starranise 2 months ago
    Hahah. Awesome. I was there too filming with the same camera. It was such a good subject to film. Nice work. I haven't looked at all my footage yet.
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  • Jackie Birov 2 months ago
    That's pretty awesome. I couldn't make it to the Chicago one but I doubt it was anywhere near as cool anyway
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  • Frenchwatercolourist 2 months ago
    Super, very poetic!
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  • Richard Gooderick 2 months ago
    Do they recycle the pillows?
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  • Mike Gill 2 months ago
    If there is a conflict between two nations....that's what they should do....put the leaders of both countries in a room and two pillows and let them fight it out in a pillow fight....no one gets hurt...but there will be a winner....lol
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  • Dio Dipasupil 2 months ago
    Nice work Justin!
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  • Georg 2 months ago
    Pollution at its worst. And waste, too.
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  • Jen Beast 2 months ago
    Hi-what is that music? I like it
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  • Denis Sweeney 2 months ago
    When will the fighting stop?!!
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  • Zantedeschia 2 months ago
    pretty cool. great video, great song to the video.
    missed the pillow fight unfortunately in SF.
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  • bloopy 2 months ago
    when i shot, cut, and posted a vid of the sf pillowfight i started looking around to see what other people did, but in general it was like a boring 30 seconds of the crowd that was shot from a safe distance. . . for whatever reason i always prefer closeup shots like you have here. . . nice vid!. . .
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  • Jonathan Rivera 2 months ago
    DUDE!!!! I was in the subway that night coming home from work and had to transfer at Union square and the subway was FILLED with feathers. I couldn't fathom how in the world it happened. I could only assume that a giant chicken got hit by a train. But now I know what ACTUALLY happened. Thanks for posting this ;) Looked like a lot of fun!
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  • Hue Baca 2 months ago
    Imagine if they used raw chicken parts instead? I didn't see any blood or guts and what's the fun in that? Good job Jason and tell George to "get a life and have some fun!"
    Hueman
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  • Peter Santiago 2 months ago
    Love the slow mo effect.....great song choice too, great work!
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  • jofric 1 month ago
    Bacan!!! cool!!!
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  • ross 30 days ago
    excellent video, its been said a lot all ready but the song and slo mo really work well.
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  • Chris Morgan 30 days ago
    Looks great!
    it seems as though that camera could produce waaaay better footage than what has come out as the final product on vimeo. if it has a feature of shooting at 240 fps.
    its a pro camera right?
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