The Koosh is Launched!

[mattbell]

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.

Comments

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

It looks great! What did you use for the material for the pentagonal noodle-anchoring platforms?

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

It's made of multiple layers of 3/16" plywood that were cut on the laser cutter, glued together, and then painted. See older posts for details.

You Rock

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome job Matt. I can see a timed Koosh-balancing event forthcoming, like log rolling... :)

[mary-wroth.livejournal.com]

It looks good!

[(Anonymous)]

Nice =) How come there are still a lot of koosh at Chris' place? Did you disassemble it again or will it have a sister?

/ Lasse

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

That *is* the koosh, just disassembled.

[neoteny.livejournal.com]

This brings a smile to my face... :D

[madbard.livejournal.com]

That looks a) awesome, b) surprisingly dynamic in the first photo.

[ferrouswheel.livejournal.com]

I am glad to be able to vicariously see the launch of this on your lj. It is still so very awesome.