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Welcome to Junkyard Sports! |
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Written by The Junkmaster
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
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a project of the Found Fun Foundation "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-- Thomas Edison Read about Junkyard Sports in Kid Scoop and Family Fun Magazine |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 August 2009 )
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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 It pleases me significantly to announce, proclaim, and otherwise acknowledge the availability of Junkyard Games, an "innovation simulation" based on my variously named Found Object Tabletop Olympiad, a.k.a. The Junkyard Sports Tabletop Olympiad, et. al.
Many are the insights one could draw from a comparison of the game, and the simulation based on it. You might, for example, have already noted how the "Found Object" component inherent to the concept of Found Object Tabletop Olympiad has been replaced by a cunning collection of pre-found objects. Interesting. By including three identically cunning collections of intriguing objects, the Junkyard Games simulation controls for chance - what each team accomplishes has nothing to do with the objects it has in its collection, and everything to do with the collective creativity of its members. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 January 2010 )
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Written by Junkmaster
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
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 Art Golf takes the spirit of Junkyard Golf Teambuilding and makes an art out of it. It was a project of a group called Because We Can, developed for the Maker Faire held in Sebastapol, CA. They were given a budget of $1500 per hole.
From the site, it looks like it was a great success, both with kids and adults. The only differences: they used real golf clubs instead of clubs people made out of things like brooms and sneakers, the holes were created by artists at a cost of $1500/per instead of teams of adults and kids with no budget and a semi-random collection of scrap and junk and stuff. Not that I'm suggesting that one event was better or more fun than the other. Just pointing out that both events looked like a great deal of fun. One was created by artists. One was free. The success of one validates and demonstrates the viability of the other. Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts) |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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 Sportpong "is an interactive physical computer game. The field is projected on the floor, two or more players can fight in teams against each other. With a paddle on each foot you hit the ball to the goal or to defend your goal. Not only smartnes and reactivity let you win, also geometric appreciation and teamplay is required...a reflector on each foot is the only physical tool to interact with Sportpong. The interface is integrated in the field which is projected on the floor. The players control the game with their feet, nothing else."
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Last Updated ( Friday, 05 February 2010 )
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Written by Junkmaster
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 |
 Soccette is a combination of soccer and basketball - it's like basketball because there's a basket. It's like soccer because you can't use your hands. It's like neither because there's only one goal/basket. It looks different. And, most important, it looks like fun.  Soccette was reportedly invented in Africa. Cuju is yet another soccer-like sport, featuring yet another innovation - a volleyball net with a hole in the middle. Cuju was invented in China. "..archeologists discovered a book in China on Cuju entitled, "Twenty-Five Articles on Cuju" which was written during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24). In this book, Cuju is explained as being played by two teams on a field with goals, and the matches were officiated by referees who followed prescribed rules. " |
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