Between here and there

The good old days.

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:52:30 -0500

The good old days.

A well-trained pack of family goats came roaming cross the hill...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:50:00 -0400

A well-trained pack of family goats came roaming cross the hill one day

Street dog-days of the rainy season.

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:23:00 -0400

Street dog-days of the rainy season.

We stole this sugarcane and we ate it.

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:01:00 -0400

We stole this sugarcane and we ate it.

My teacher tearing up the tabla. MP3’s suck. You can...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:05:00 -0400

My teacher tearing up the tabla. MP3’s suck. You can hear me click the gain on the mic down a notch.

1990creed: the best thing on the internet. agreed

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:16:28 -0400

1990creed:

the best thing on the internet.

agreed

Everything about this is incredible papermacheanimals: when...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:55:19 -0400

Everything about this is incredible

papermacheanimals:

when patrik and i know we wanted to make a new show and the themes would be around bodies and timing we did some research by going out and just making some sequences with a thought toward being more physical with each other. some of them are more about the environment and other are just random stuff we were thinking of and wanted to make. they were some of the funnest days i have had in my life! swedish summer, hanging with pat, juggling, playing music, eating fast food. so good!

hope you dig it!

giving tree

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:28:10 -0400

Kat: You can't hang a baby from a tree Jeannette.
Jeannette: You can long enough to take a picture.

This is my band Chromakid. Follow us.

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:22:41 -0400

This is my band Chromakid. Follow us.

Photo

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:53:29 -0500

my brain is like mashed potatoes in the morning.

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:14:58 -0400

my brain is like mashed potatoes in the morning.

family portrait

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:52 -0400

family portrait

This is failing. I’m really bad at keeping up with things like this. Plus I’ve...

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:08:44 -0400

This is failing. I’m really bad at keeping up with things like this. Plus I’ve completely run out of material. From here on out rustyswings is not specific. If I come across a good old fashioned swing set that deserves recognition, this will be the home for it. But in the meantime.

Freetown Christiania, Denmark This swingset was too good for...

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:34:06 -0500

Freetown Christiania, Denmark

This swingset was too good for rust.

The first to go.

Freetown Christiania, Denmark If it hadn’t been getting...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:05:00 -0500

Freetown Christiania, Denmark

If it hadn’t been getting dark, and Lauren and I hadn’t accidentally walked miles out of the way, I would have been all over this shit.

The first to go.

geocities: Tivoli lights show, from when Kat came to...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:02:01 -0500

geocities:

Tivoli lights show, from when Kat came to visit!

Not a playground, but also not in America.

Kongens Have, Copenhagen. The first to go.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:32:38 -0500

Kongens Have, Copenhagen.

The first to go.

The Idea

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:45:38 -0500

I guess I will start by introducing myself. My name is kat, and I’m addicted to playgrounds. I love all kinds of playgrounds, but I especially love playgrounds that you can still have fun on.

There is nothing less interesting than a new age “kid friendly” playground with a super soft ground made of puppies and fairy dust. All across America perfectly fun-filled and action packed playgrounds are being destroyed for the “safer” alternative.

I have lost my faith in this countries ability to make an interesting, contemporary playground, so I have decided that in my travels around the world I will take pictures of playgrounds that would have been “the first to go” in America.

I’m talking gravel for padding, metal slides that get too hot in summer, swings that go so high that you fear never coming down, ledges that lead to nowhere, merry-go-rounds, and of course, the way too tall for a little kid set of monkey bars.

A lot of life lessons are learned on the playground. We need to continue in the tradition.

Stop the rusty swings genocide.