If this monstrous snaking course is what slides are like at Japanese playgrounds, my mind probably won’t even be able to begin to comprehend the magnitude of their swingsets. I imagine they must tower over skyscrapers. More »
The video is a bit creepy – with the silent movie mime routine typical of the films of Frucci and Barretti – but the Rainbow House looks like the place any kid would love to live in. More »
Ahh, the ’80s. When safety precautions barely existed, and kids could get excited by the mere thought of a 4-sound electronic console. Just look at their happy little faces. Even the dog is smiling. [Boing Boing]
During the height of the cold war in the early 80′s you could find me on the playground of my elementary school, climbing on a rocketship similar to the 23 captured by photographer Lauren Orchowski.
The idea of making public spaces more playful is the brainchild of artist Bruno Taylor. In this project, he modified several London bus stops with swings to brighten the day of busy commuters. Never mind the smell, the noise, or that dude rubbing up against you–a swing set at the bus stop would melt away all of the stress associated with public transportation. That is until you get a little too carried away with the swinging motion and knock out someone walking behind the bus stop with your arse. On the playground that’s detention–in the adult world it’s called assault. Haha…(ass)ault. [Pixelsumo via PSFK via Dvice]
These Mobius Climbers are super-sweet playground equipment inspired by Mobius strips, bending and curving all over the place with grips and bars for climbing. It’s the type of thing I would have killed to play on as a kid but would be forbidden to by my reasonable parents, who would see these things for what they are: high-concept kid manglers, inviting slippery-fingered first graders to take a head-first spill into a piece of sheet metal with grips protruding from its concave surface. Awesome. [Product Page via Neatorama and BornRich]
Luckey and Luckey make some of the sweetest “playgrounds” I’ve ever seen, multi-story contraptions with tons of netting and platforms that jut out, allowing the tykes to climb up and around all over the place. They look like some fancy architecture or a sculpture as much as they look like objects for kids to climb on, which is probably why so many of them are built in children’s museums. They should make some adult-sized versions; I’m not too old to enjoy a good climb. galleryPost('climbers', 8, 'Luckey Climbers'); [Product Page via NotCot] More »
