We made the (gulp) cover of this month’s Crochet Today. Note the world record mention at the top of the page. Read more about the feat in the magazine, and see the video here.
February 22, 2010, 6:53pm
#3: Most Bunnies Snuggled With In A Hammock - DJ Nathan
In late June, our good friends at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon invited us on their show to document the one-and-only Cameron Diaz set the world record for Most Bunnies Snuggled With In A Hammock (48).
Before we could catch our breaths from the awesomeness of Diaz’s feat, a radio station in Perth, Australia (Nova 93.7) called us up with some mind-boggling news: a DJ on their morning show climbed into a hammock and snuggled with 50 bunnies. They even got Diaz on the phone and crushed her with the news.
Bunny insanity! Congrats, DJ Nathan, on being more of a man than we’ll ever dare to be. We hope you’ll keep up with these types of shenanigans in 2010.
January 02, 2010, 9:07pm
#5: Fastest Time To Solve A Rubik's Cube While Riding A Unicycle - Caleb J. Stultz
Rubik’s Cubes are cool, and so are unicyles. When you put them together, magic happens. Well done Caleb J. Stultz, for inventing something so fresh and awesome. Your world record for Fastest Time Solving A Rubik’s Cube While Riding A Unicycle is a near shoo-in for the future URDB Hall of Fame.
January 01, 2010, 2:43am
A video from Metromix Columbus that goes behind the scenes of the Most Women Named Wendy To Eat At A Wendy’s world record.
November 23, 2009, 3:12pm
Controversial World Record #1
Joseph Holt submitted a record for Most 2465-Pound Leg Press Repetitions. There’s been a lot of dialogue about whether his feat should be verified. What do you think? Watch the video and vote below. Comments welcome, too.
November 05, 2009, 7:18pm
At a special launch party for his new book, Crush It, Gary Vaynerchuk broke the world record for “Most Glasses Clinked in One Minute.” Team URDB were on hand in our yellow jackets to document his extremely impressive feat: 102 clinks. Video to be posted shortly. Thanks to Gary for including us in the night.
Photo credit: Mark Fitzpatrick
October 29, 2009, 2:49pm
Day Four on the Job: Treasure Island Music Festival
After three short days at URDB HQ in Brooklyn, NY, I hopped a flight from JFK to San Francisco. I’d never been west of the Mississippi, and there I was flying off to visit family, see Yosemite, and do my first URDB live event – documenting world records with Saucony Originals at the Treasure Island Music Festival.
Team URDB convened at the infamous Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco and, debriefed and breakfasted, we made our way over to the Island. We got to the festival decked out in our official yellow jackets an hour before the gates opened.
Team URDB (from left to right: Brian, Paul, yours truly, Debbie, Dan, Rob). More photos from the event are up at Flickr and on our Facebook page.
Naively, I thought festival-goers would take a while to warm to the idea of setting world records. Rookie mistake. Within the first few minutes of the start of the festival, there was already a line of people ready to break records.
Comfortably set up the Saucony Originals booth, we had 24 World Record Challenges with record holders winning a cool pair of sneakers at the end of the festival. A few highlights:
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Most ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’ Hand Signs In 30 Seconds
In a ‘2 Legit’-off, Andrew Baker and Justin Henderson simultaneously competed for the most complete ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’ signs. Baker took the record with 22 hand gestures in 30 seconds.
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Fastest Kazoo Rendition Of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Professional kazoo player Jesse Fox performed the entire Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star song on a kazoo in 5.16 seconds. -
Largest Group Rendition Of “Don’t Stop Believin’”
At 4pm on Saturday, we pulled together a crowd to participate in a group record: most people singing “Don’t Stop Believin’”* by Journey. The record: 122 people.
One of my favorite records wasn’t even on the list: a spontaneous and charming Largest Group Piggy-Back Hug. 11 partners paired up for a double-decker hug with 22 total participants, including some of the record holders for the Largest Group of People Dressed as Food.
Largest Group Piggy-back Hug
Over the weekend we documented over 130 record challenges. For my first URDB event, it was exhilarating - watching so many people really commit to breaking records - and exhausting. In the evenings we wound down with beers and some great music from the very impressive Treasure Island lineup. Monday morning, I flew back to New York to start Week 2 with URDB.
From the frontlines,
Sarah
* We handed out lyrics sheets to “Don’t Stop Believin’”, which prompted the greatest OH of the weekend: “If you need the lyrics, you’re not a real American.”
October 27, 2009, 1:25pm
