Watch: Over 150 mattresses fly through park on a windy day

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/20/watch-over-150-mattresses-fly.html

8 Likes

Better than toasters.

13 Likes

I’m just not sure I understand this modern art today.
But I like it.

24 Likes

Were they memory foam? Asking for a friend…

7 Likes
27 Likes

If you love something, set it free

15 Likes

Beautiful.

6 Likes

this is the future liberals want.

23 Likes

This and taco trucks. I was promised taco trucks.

23 Likes

You know, the music that you set to this makes all the difference.

6 Likes

For some reason I think metamorphosis by Philip Glass set to this video could play on Loop in a museum and no one would question it

7 Likes

“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”

8 Likes

Verily, it is strongly reminiscent of some strangely-conceived 3D-graphics-physics-engine-particle-effect test.

A moment of viral fame surely awaits the person who edits the video to give each mattress a pair of googly eyes.

3 Likes

Kinetic art is so misunderstood! They thought the same thing in the 50s.

First ‘wind-powered’ mobiles… and now mattresses.

FISH-MOBILE

4 Likes
8 Likes

Yup. Needed more “Flight of the Valkyries”

8 Likes

It lends well to the beauty and majesty of the wild North American mattress herds.

9 Likes

Nothing to do with the wind. The mattresses were expressing how they feel about sitting through tonight’s double feature of Showgirls and Batman & Robin.

7 Likes

Still not as cool as bouncy houses with kids.

1 Like

It’s to give the nannies something to land on.

8 Likes