The planking craze (basically lying rigidly on the ground, face down, in as weird a location as possible for a picture) has gotten tons of media coverage recently, mainly because someone in Australia died doing it. He fell 7 stories after unsuccessfully trying to lie on his inches-wide balcony railing.

But here in Philly, Randi Sether is trying to keep it fun and simple. “I started [planking] over a year ago,” she said, “and I became obsessed.” She says that while her friends thought she was nuts, they soon started sending her pics of themselves and others doing it, as well as suggesting places for her to do it. She started the website Dirty Boobies (totally SFW, by the way) to show off her planking pictures and videos. From planking on a Las Vegas escalator as it was going up, to doing it on a piece of construction equipment in front of the Barbary, she planks across Philly and the nation.

You can follow along with her exploits or suggest other places for her to plank at Dirty Boobies, which is named after but one of the hazards of puttin’ ‘em on the street (rather than our preferred place, which is, of course, on the glass).

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 3:12 pm.