Tako-no-Yama: The Itinerant Octopus Slide Builders Of Japan -- Daddy Types

This is just too great!!

Tako-no-Yama: The Itinerant Octopus Slide Builders Of Japan -- Daddy Types: "In the 1960's in Japan, when the Maeda Outdoor Art Company unveiled a serpentine mound of polished concrete called 'Play Sculpture: Stone Mountain,' someone trying to be helpful told the artist, 'If you'd just put a head on it, it'd be an octopus.' It turned out octopus was what the park officials were buying, so octopus it was."

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