http://www.wherecoolthingshappen.com/super-long-trampoline/ In Russia they have a new and Cool transportation trough the forest, a super long Trampoline of 51 meters (170 feet). Called "Fast Track", it really could be a fast track and we wouldn’t mind taking this route jumping to the office every day on this cool trampoline. =================== http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/01/17/170-foot-long-trampoline-track-in-a-russian-forest/ 170 FOOT LONG TRAMPOLINE TRACK IN A RUSSIAN FOREST Maria NiarchosREADER FIND by Maria Niarchos in Cool Travel on Thursday 17 January 2013 261690 If you could make the drive to work a thing of the past by jumping your way along a massive trampoline, you’d do it, right? Salto Architects decided it’d be a damn good idea to try out, installing a 170 foot long trampoline track in a Russian forest. The brains behind the design had a bigger plan than just installing a whole heap of fun, though. Renowned for blurring the different levels of architecture, Salto set out to challenge the concept of infrastructure that shows an ignorance to its surroundings. They wanted to evoke a conversation; new thoughts about the way we move. Bigger-picture-thinking, lawsuits and insurance aside, I’m sold on the whole ‘hop, skip and a jump’ thing. ============= http://gadling.com/2012/12/02/russian-forest-now-features-170-foot-long-trampoline-video/ ===================== http://blog.instagram.com/post/40103909944/archstoyanie-festival-to-see-more Four hours south of Moscow in Urga National Park lies the small village of Nikola-Lenivets. Once a failed farm collective, the rural town is now one of the most important sites of Russian contemporary art. Artist Nikolai Polissky led the vanguard in 1989 when he arrived as a painter and member of the underground Soviet art collective Mitki. Now the site boasts monumental land-art structures attuned to the seasons and harvests of the village. Each year Nikola-Lenivets also hosts the Archstoyanie Festival, the Russian equivalent of Burning Man with a particular focus on the interactions of art and landscape. This year, the festival features a 170 ft. trampoline, “Fast Track,” designed to slow down travel and let jumpers enjoy the forest around them. Russian Forest Now Features 170-Foot-Long Trampoline (VIDEO) by Libby Zay on Dec 2, 2012 At Archstoyanie, an annual festival held in the forests of Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, architects from Estonian design firm Salto created a 170-foot-long trampoline. Dubbed “Fast Track,” the elongated trampoline acts similar to a people mover at an airport. Except in this case, instead of helping you get from one place to another in haste, Fast Track was designed to allow users to experience their environment in a new way. Here’s what the architects have to say about it: ‘Fast track’ is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. ‘Fast track’ is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and perceiving the environment. For the past seven years, architects and designers have been installing work in this remote region of Russia, which is about four hours from Moscow, as part of the Archstoyanie festival. Today, the creators of the festival say the park acts as a laboratory for experiments in art, architecture and socio-cultural practices. Look through more pictures and watch a video of people bouncing along on the massive trampoline – which, according to Colossal, where we first caught glimpse of the project, is actually nearly as long as a city block – after the jump. =============== http://www.nikola-lenivets.com/about/?lang=en Nikola-Lenivets is located 200 kilometers away from Moscow, in Kaluga region by Ugra river. A part of the territory belongs to Ugra National Park, which is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Nikola-Lenivets’s mission is to create a natural self regulated environment for life, recreation, art and work in harmony with nature. Art objects, workshops and studios, public spaces and accommodation areas, all of the necessary infrastructure for life and creativity are integrated into the natural surroundings and landscape of Nikola-Lenivets. Nikola-Lenivets is a modern project - the only place in Russia that presents landscape installations and land-art objects created by leading Russian and international artists, many of which have become iconic figures for modern art. Nikola-Lenivets is open for creative experiments. New objects of art are created here constantly.