Ten Two hundred fifty thousand superballs: why was I not notified?
Update, Oct 24:
Finished commercial.
Making-of video.
Update: More awesome photos.
two hundred fifty thousand superballs
Tags: balls, mpegs, pranks, toys
Current Music: Firewater -- Dark Days Indeed ♬
20 Responses:
WHAT NOW??? why was *I* not told?
i blame you.
I second that blame placing.
Just the pictures make me all giddy! Can we have these at the next party inside the bouncy room?
oh god, the damage THAT would inflict *wince*
BTW, this is the place I was telling you about last night that supposedly has started doing hiphop dj events.
I know some people like that.
It's a damn shame you can't do the plastic balls thing. Maybe you can just not so subtly convince people to collect them from various chucky cheeses and such for a year until the next party and then bring them all in to see how far we've gotten. Brownie points for whoever gets the most balls!
and hiphop shows there? only if they where the party hats... like jess did...
And why isn't there video, 'n shit?
You'll eventually get your video, I'm sure. I recall reading that this was part of a Sony commercial filming effort.
Finally! 36MB mpeg under the image here. This was shot by a girl from behind her screen door as the balls passed by.
didn't they used to do this at reed college every year?
they still do, but it has decreased in scale over the last couple years.
yeah. It was awesome when I was a freshmen but they keep toning it down. Something to do with the cops getting angry about 1200 students + faculty + staff + alumni crowding along a steep hill street at 3am and dropping 30,000 bouncy balls from the top of it. Someone joker put bouncy balls that lit up (yay) and golf balls (ow!) in as well.
I'm on the student senate and I, for one, fully intend to make sure the people we choose to organize Renn Fayre give us a ball drop this year.
I smell a new xscreensaver hack. Sadly, modern hardware probably isn't ready for modeling even 10,000 superballs yet.
"Now they know how many balls [sic] it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."
Most excellent. Have you seen the Ping-Pong Ball Avalanche? They got it up to 320k balls for sake of science. There are videos, too.
There's also the super ball prank that's been making the RSS rounds. Looks like the site might be down.
It's not down - musta been a human error.
Yay ping pong avalanche!
Ah-ah! Pictures of an avalanche on a Cambridge University website!
Alright, since you've pinged me back to this post, here's some newness:
Page about the ad with behind the scenes stuff
Song is 'Heartbeats' by Jose Gonzalez
Sepiatone's Flickr gallery of the event
The money shot into this:
Hey, I sent that link to your buddy MLY. So blame him.
I'm using that first picture as my desktop background.