The Koosh is Launched!

After lots of repetitive manual labor (completed to the tune of Catch-22, various TED talks, and This American Life), I finally finished constructing what I believe to be the world's largest koosh ball. Originally meant for the Ephemerisle festival, it will now instead make an appearance at The Floating Festival That is Not Ephemerisle.

Made from 276 pool noodles purchased for a dollar each at local Dollar Trees, it could theoretically support close to 1500 pounds, but it's hard enough for even one person to climb to the top and stay stable:



Thanks to Dave, Chris, Steve, and Jocelyn for helping me test it out!

Update:  Here's a video!

Here are some more pictures of how it came together:









See more at the Flickr group. 

It's not too far off from my original concept photoshopping:  The coloring is definitely better. 



For more info on construction, read the older entries here.