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Blog Post #4 It’s been over a month since we’ve started our project and we’ve made progress on all fronts, digital and physical. Combined, we now have enough videos to create a Youtube channel showcasing all the different records we’ve tried to beat and evidence of our improvement. But so far we haven’t gone too far with any one record, we’ve been testing the waters, waiting to see if we want jump into the idea with conviction. But we now know what we want to pursue. Photo credit: Public Domain The balloon throwing might work as we quite nearly tied the record, the chess set up we’ve deemed the most likely for us to break, and the sock challenge has proven to be too expensive, the silk stockings being out of our price range. Like our innovation with the sock record I decided to research the other world records and hopefully find videos of them breaking the records we’ve decided to spend our time trying to beat. During my search I found that the record holder for the longes...

 Jonah Wimmer Mr. Mongardi Media Literacy 17/1/17 Blog Post #3 As the project progresses Jacob and I have both realized that we can really break a world record. So far we've attempted to break the world record for the fastest time to set up a chessboard, the world record for putting most socks on in a minute time span, and the farthest water balloon throw and catch. We've tried to innovate in terms of how we do the challenges, we found videos of the actual record holders  and have copied their techniques to maximize speed. Now it's just a matter of practice and dedication. Pavol Durdik

Jonah Wimmer Mr. Mongardi Media Literacy 12/1/17 Blog Post #2 We are approaching the stage where we begin our first attempts of breaking world records. I've researched world records that I think we are capable of beating. Among these are, farthest distance to throw and water balloon and have it be caught by the receiving partner, most individual pieces of paper to be ripped in a minute, most leapfrogs by a team of two to be performed in one minute. While these are easier to break than many other world records it will still take a great amount of time and effort to come close to breaking any. Before we began, me and Jacob noted the fact that we may not break any of these records, we both agreed that in that case our triumph would be in the perseverance exuded during this twelve week span. In some cases there are more opportunities to learn from our failures than our successes. Meanwhile us being unable to complete these world records but still have a fun time would hopefully sh...

Jonah Wimmer Mr Mongardi Media Literacy G Block 4/12/16 Blog Post #1     In our exploration for viable project ideas we found that we wanted to do something that genuinely intrigued ourselves and our audience while being completely original. We based our search for ideas off those criterion's and after establishing them we were able to greatly narrow our search. We ended up coming up with several ideas, basketball how-to-videos, teaching the Swedish language to a non-speaker displayed in YouTube videos, and one more idea. A series of video logs showing two guys trying to break some of the wackiest and weirdest world records, seeing their triumphs and failures displayed in transparent fashion. This was the only idea that fit our criterion's completely and we found that the only way to truly showcase our progress was via video logs. With the proper execution this project has the potential to be hilarious while teaching an important message. Trying to draw meaning from so...