Thursday, January 17, 2008

This Post Is About Balls

Yesterday morning, an Italian artist/activist named Graziano Cecchini released half a million playpen balls from the balcony of Rome's Holy Trinity Church. Call it a protest, call it art - either way, I wish I was there.


I'd volunteer to be on the clean-up crew, and bring all the balls back home:





Meanwhile, this ad from a few years ago still makes me happy:



The song, in case you were wondering, is Jose Gonzalez covering "Heartbeats" by The Knife.

4 comments:

Zach said...

This is my sister's next door neighbor.

Jackie Kautzer said...

Thanks for sharing that with me, Z! I want to go play in his ballpit!

Zach said...

I know what you're trying to say, but doesn't that sound vaguely...um...dirty?

Jackie Kautzer said...

Ha, there was simply no avoiding it.