More Diet Coke and Mentos Madness!
June 24, 2007

        
Photos of the Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments


Great things continue to happen for our friends Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe of EepyBird.com. They just set a world record in Cincinnati, won
a Webby Award (the Internet version of the Oscars), and believe it or not, they were nominated for an Emmy Award! All this because they started dropping Mentos mints into bottles of Diet Coke…

Stephen and Fritz have both studied extensively at Celebration Barn. They first met at the Eccentric Peforming Workshop with Avner Eisenberg and Julie Goell, and they’ve also studied with Davis Robinson, who will be teaching the Theater Collaboration Workshop this summer with David Gaines. Coming right up here at the Barn, Fritz will be teaching at the Young Performers Theater Camp with Amanda Huotari and Mike Miclon.

Earlier this month, Stephen and Fritz’s hit Internet video, “The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments,” featuring geysers of soda choreographed like a miniature Bellagio fountain, won both a Webby Award and a Webby People’s Voice Award. At a ceremony in New York featuring David Bowie, the Beastie Boys, and the founders of YouTube, Stephen and Fritz performed a live geyser display outside on Wall Street itself. Stephen, who went to law school at NYU said, “After all this, now I find myself working on Wall Street?!”

On the heels of that, they also found themselves nominated for an Emmy Award in a brand new category, Outstanding Broadband Variety. They scrambled to find a couple of tuxedos (Fritz had never even worn one before) and headed out to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony. They didn't win, but they had a fantastic time. They even got to pet a penguin. Of course. Fritz’s favorite celebrity sighting? Oscar the Grouch. Oscar and Elmo presented several awards, and afterwards, Caroll Spinney (the guy behind Oscar and Big Bird) walked right by and nodded hello. Fritz commented, “I don’t think I’ve ever been more star-struck in my life than in that moment.”

All this followed yet another exciting event: EepyBird helped set a world record in Cincinnati, authenticated by Guinness and everything. Along with 500 volunteers, they set off 504 Diet Coke and Mentos geysers simultaneously. You can see amazing video of the event here.

To see more EepyBird videos, including “The How-To Hunchback” featuring Mike Miclon, visit www.EepyBird.com. In their news and blog section, you can also read more stories of their trips to the Webbys and the Emmys.