w00t!! During the Sport App Diner at may 27th, FigureRunning was awarded best app for active sports!
The jury’s verdict: “A totally different perspective on sports. Not the competition, but creativity and fun are put at the centre of this activity, targeting a new audience. The app is nicely developed and the functionality is unique. ”
Mystery solved. We were on Danish TV. Thanks Malene Møbius, Rikke Kastberg, Joan and PalleA for helping us solve this!
We don’t really understand it, but it looks like Lasse Kristiansen is doing a good job in explaining the advantages of FigureRunning. This is a short summary of the conversation, written by Palle Arentoft.
“January […]
Such a shame that the Olympics are over again. But here are some nice artpieces to enjoy!
A few weeks ago we asked people around the world to run an Olympic themed drawing. And we received some beautiful stuff. It was very hard to choose, but in the end the jury decided to award […]
The Olympics have begun!
To celebrate this we joined the Urban Olympics, organised by the NAi. Check out these nice Urban sports 🙂
Send us your olympic figures and we will feature them here at the blog.
The FigureRunning Team went running in New York and Boston last month, they made an olympic swimmer in London last week and now you can go FigureRunning yourself in Rotterdam!
As you know, FigureRunning is […]
In three days the Olympics finally kick off! For this special occasion we decided to draw something special in the streets of London. Actually not only the streets but also the Thames is part of the art this time!
This run was designed by @justaskdesigns. Remember him? […]
Only 10 days to go before the Olympics start taking over the city of London. Time for some fun!What?
We want to run an alternative opening to the Olympics this year. Be creative and join our project to run a big massive multiplayer art piece in the streets of London.
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The FigureRunning Android app is here! We just finished our talk at the Games for Health Conference in Boston and we took this special occasion to launch the FigureRunning app for Android worldwide. You can now get it in Google Play. The crowd loved the FigureRunning virus.
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This february we have been FigureRunning in Berlin with Jona Kallgren from Associated Press. He created this beautiful explanatory video about FigureRunning. Watch it on YouTube or here below (in German):
This was the result of our run on february 11
We landed at TEDxMaastricht and of course we had to run a special FigureRun for the big day of tomorrow! So we did a night run to honor TEDxMaastricht. To all the visitors at TEDxMaastricht – we see you tomorrow at the conference (and we would love you to vote for us to win the Future of […]
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What is FigureRunning?
Start FigureRunning NOW!
1) Choose a theme (#royal, #alphabet, #easter)
2) Think of a simple Figure matching that theme
3) Search the map of your neighbourhood for that Figure (streets/gardens)
4) Get a phone with GPS and download a running app, like Runkeeper, GeoTracker or Nike +
5) Go to the beginning of the Figure, start tracking, start running
6) Make a screenshot of your FigureRun when you're done (iPhone: hold big button below and button on top at the same time)
7) Send the figure to mydrawing@figurerunning.com or tweet/facebook it with #figurerunningFigureRunning flickr pica’s