reverse hipping stones

Posted on 15 May 2008 by jnewton

Thinking more about hipping stones and what might be their opposite.
Hipping stones are for crossing small bodies of water while keeping your feet dry.
These ‘reverse’ hipping stones are for crossing the alley while keeping your feet wet.
reverse hipping stones

The Stoneybrook alley proves to be reverse hippinable.

reverse hipping stone alley crossing

The action is (maybe, quite a guess here) tobi-mizu-kosaten?

addendum:

A slight alteration in the Japanese (many thanks, again, to a friend). ‘Tobi-mizu-hodou’ (jumping – water – pavement crossing) is a more correct way of phrasing the above (‘Kosaten’ implies a larger road or intersection).

also addendum:

Compiled these few bits and some additional history on a concrete wheels page.

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4 Responses to reverse hipping stones

  1. rob says:
    19 May 2008 at 6:05 pm

    hilarious
    and i love the japanese narrative
    did you timer the pics or are these video stills?

  2. jnewton says:
    19 May 2008 at 6:41 pm

    Thanks.

    [Camera, on a tripod, set to multiple frames
    w/ assistant's finger on the shutter release.]

  3. Geoff says:
    21 May 2008 at 10:24 pm

    There may be alternate universes, and some may even be made from anti-matter — possibly our universe’s opposite — yet, you have, in your simple, backyard laboratory, have carried-out a remarkable experiment demonstrating the negative (in the anti- sense) behavior of a micro-anti-universe without benefit of quantum mechanics; a feat possibly deserving of submission for an Ig Nobel Prize. I offer your nomination. Are there seconds? Nice job, Jamie! Geoff

  4. jnewton says:
    22 May 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Thank you, Geoffrey.

    “I feel with a federal grant I could make it a lot more silly.”