Blog Post #4

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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.

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 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 longest balloon toss is held by none other than the king of records himself.

Photo credit: Dhruva Hein

Ashrita Furman has set 551 official Guinness World Records, of those including the record for most records. Finding out that the same man who set 550 other world records also holds the record we’re trying to beat makes our job of beating his record that much better. We’d be taking from the King of Records himself. Not only that but on his blog he usually notes the people who have beaten one of his records. With luck and practice me and Jacob might be record holders yet.







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