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Diet Coke-Mentos performers at it again
by Outspoken on Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:22 am
Diet Coke-Mentos performers at it again
For their next consumer-goods trick, two Mainers make waterfalls from sticky-note pads.
The Associated Press
BUCKFIELD — Two Maine performers who gained international attention with their geysers created from Diet Coke and Mentos candies have spent more than a year working on their next act: cascading waterfalls and spinning wheels using nothing but sticky-note pads.
In their quest to explore how ordinary items can do extraordinary things, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz found themselves roaming the aisles of an Office Max with clipboards, buying up paper clips, erasers other everyday products.
They took them to Fritz's home, a former Grange hall on the outskirts of Buckfield, and began experimenting in "the lab." In time, they turned their focus to sticky-note pads, spending days on end studying them before stumbling on the promise of an act.
The final product is a three-minute video, produced in Hollywood and sponsored by sticky-note Post-It manufacturer 3M, Office Max and Coca-Cola.
The secret to their success is grunt work, the pair said.
"You spend a lot of time just poking and poking and poking and poking,"' Voltz said. "You say, 'I'm just going to be so stubborn; I'm going to keep doing this until I find something cool.'"
A video of the new act was to premiere Friday night on the ABC Family network and on the pair's Web site, http://eepybird.com/.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=208561&ac=PHnws
For their next consumer-goods trick, two Mainers make waterfalls from sticky-note pads.
The Associated Press
BUCKFIELD — Two Maine performers who gained international attention with their geysers created from Diet Coke and Mentos candies have spent more than a year working on their next act: cascading waterfalls and spinning wheels using nothing but sticky-note pads.
In their quest to explore how ordinary items can do extraordinary things, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz found themselves roaming the aisles of an Office Max with clipboards, buying up paper clips, erasers other everyday products.
They took them to Fritz's home, a former Grange hall on the outskirts of Buckfield, and began experimenting in "the lab." In time, they turned their focus to sticky-note pads, spending days on end studying them before stumbling on the promise of an act.
The final product is a three-minute video, produced in Hollywood and sponsored by sticky-note Post-It manufacturer 3M, Office Max and Coca-Cola.
The secret to their success is grunt work, the pair said.
"You spend a lot of time just poking and poking and poking and poking,"' Voltz said. "You say, 'I'm just going to be so stubborn; I'm going to keep doing this until I find something cool.'"
A video of the new act was to premiere Friday night on the ABC Family network and on the pair's Web site, http://eepybird.com/.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=208561&ac=PHnws
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