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Danish mystery solved!

By Willempje On February 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Art, News, Press

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 […]

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The Denmark mystery

By Willempje On February 7, 2013 · 14 Comments · In News

This month we have noticed a lot of people in Denmark starting to run in weird shapes. We are trying to figure out what happened in Denmark. Can you help us solve this mystery?

Please send your clues to mystery@figurerunning.com

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New Years Resolutions?

By Willempje On January 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Art, News, Roadmap

First of all a great, healthy and creative 2013 to all of you. Let’s toast on the new year! Thank you for all the nice holiday drawings you have send us.

Do you have any new years resolutions? Like colouring your neighbourhood pink? Or challenging your friend across the globe for a healthy art competition? […]

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Run a tree for Christmas

By Leonieke On December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Art, News, Theme

You can decide for yourself if you like the idea of buying a living tree for Christmas or not, but we, of course, really DO SUPPORT the brilliant idea of All Things Moving of RUNNING A TREE!

Join us and run a tree before Christmas and send […]

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First FigureRunner of the Month from Sweden

By Willempje On December 4, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Art, News

The art we get send is getting bigger, better and more colourfull. That makes it difficult to select the FigureRuns of the week every time. But the honour of this week goes to Klas from Sweden. In the past weeks he has send us all these art works. So we decided he deserves it to […]

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FigureRunning in a wheelchair

By Willempje On November 2, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Events, Tips & Tricks

Today we had a very inspiring day. Together with teenagers who are in training at rehabilitation centre ‘De Hoogstraat’, we made our first FigureRolling artpieces!

We designed FigureRunning as a motivator to go running. Of course there are a lot of people who don’t necessarily want or are able to […]

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First FigureRunning tournament in Sweden

By Willempje On October 22, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Art, Events, News

This saturday Sweden will host the first FigureRunning tournament in Hallstahammar. Of course we have done global competitions before, but this is the first tournament where competitors all run and the same time in the same place.

The tournament is organised by one of the first Swedish FigureRunners, Emil Berglund, and the […]

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Do you want to test our new website?

By Willempje On August 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Art, News

Great news. We are working on a new website. What will change? The site will be all about the art that you are running all around the world. Think of it as an online art gallery for everyone, a Youtube for GPS art.

The first steps towards this have been taken (preview below) and now […]

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And the winner is…. Olympics 2012

By Willempje On August 14, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Art, Events, Gamification, News, Press, Roadmap

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 […]

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Olympic swimmer seen in three different countries

By Leonieke On August 3, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Art, News

The Olympic swimmer has been spotted in France, Great Britain and Sweden!

The Dutchies are of course proud of Kromowidjojo, but Torbjörn Kjörk from Sweden writes:

“Hi
I have done this Olympic Swimming logo as a tribute to one of the
greatest swedish swimmers: Therese “Tessan” Alshammar. She was one […]

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