Grown-Up Hideouts: A Wild Things Fort-Building Contest! booooooom.com

Grown-Up Hideouts: A Wild Things Fort-Building Contest!
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Danny B

One of our favorite art blogs, booooooom.com, recently held a Where the Wild Things Are fort-building contest and the entries, including the contest winner, by Providence artist and woodworker, Eric Rice (image 3), are out-of-this-world awesome.

On a freezing and rainy day like today, we could totally imagine our grown-up selves sneaking away into a cozy homemade fort and forgetting about the rest of the world for a little while. Visit booooooom.com to see all of the amazingly creative contest entries.

(via booooooom! and thebiggestlittle)

Comments (15)

This contest was in conjunction with the awesome Where the Wild Things Are blog, We Love You So. If you like the idea of cozy forts, you should check out the variety of wild things apparel, children's literature recommendations, and wild things interpretations that have been posted so far.

posted by stefanielcarter on October 16th 2009 at 11:01am
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That pug looking up in that 1st pic is awesome. He/She was probably wondering, "what the heck is going on here..."

posted by bitdot on October 16th 2009 at 11:37am
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i love the fourth pic, and i'm inspired to make my own fort now!

posted by jessbink on October 16th 2009 at 2:31pm
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LOVE it.

posted by Matilde on October 16th 2009 at 6:58pm
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I would have been all over that stick fort about ten years ago. Luckily, I haven't grown much...

posted by triedthistwice on October 17th 2009 at 8:45am
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Great book. Why do adults feel compelled to ruin a classic with movies and creepy contests?

posted by mjs7640 on October 17th 2009 at 1:29pm
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I might actually consider doing this! even though that first photo makes me wonder about that boy/man!?!?!

posted by kjansson on October 18th 2009 at 6:07pm
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Anyone who's played Bioshock will be a little disturbed by the rabbit mask in the first picture.

If you're 30 and you still feel the psychological need to create a fort, then I say you're doing something wrong.

posted by Blandwagon on October 18th 2009 at 11:11pm
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Sad and creepy.

posted by slowdown on October 24th 2009 at 4:15pm
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wow, everyone here sounds like a bunch of bitter old farts. forts are fun for all ages.

posted by joshhh on October 24th 2009 at 4:52pm
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I'm with you joshhh! Having a dinner picnic or just a lazy chat in an impromptu fort is a cozy bit of sweetness. I'm glad my friends & loved ones like making fun and beauty out of materials at hand.

posted by Hollers on October 24th 2009 at 5:47pm
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I built a fort for a party I was hosting once.
Adults of all ages loved it.

You naysayers are not the kind of people I want to be friends with.

posted by jac7890 on October 25th 2009 at 9:13am
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And I wouldn't want to be friends with grown people who build forts, sit in them in their underwear, and then post pictures online.

posted by slowdown on October 25th 2009 at 12:14pm
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That pug has me laughing so hard!!!

posted by maipop on October 25th 2009 at 6:31pm
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I love the fort, but the grown man in underwear and rabbit mask is fracking creepy!!!

posted by genkiliz on October 25th 2009 at 10:29pm
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