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Video: The Playground, As Seen By A Very Young New Yorker
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 6, 2012
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In an effort to show the world how it appears from other perspectives, humans have given cameras to cats and to dogs—so strapping one onto a human child makes perfect sense. It also, if the following video is any indication, makes for an adorable afternoon diversion (warning: may cause motion sickness in the old).
Basically, a mom in Queens strapped her iPod Touch to her five-year-old child, took them to the playground on Greenpoint Avenue and let the kid do their thing. Then they put the footage together with Opus Orange's "Nothing But Time" and voila! we were instantly taken back to our own childhood running around playgrounds around town. Seriously, we're having flashbacks to watching the bigger people play handball at First Park in the 80s.
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