David Friedman (from IronicSans Blog) was recently doing a portrait of Art Fry the inventor of Post-it Notes at 3M. David asked him if he’d seen our Sticky Note Experiments, and it turned out that he hadn’t.

Luckily, David happened to bring a copy of the video with him on his iPhone for exactly that possibility!

David thought it would be a good idea to record Art's reaction to the video, and put it up so we could watch it. It is an amazing feeling to see the inventor of the Post It note smile as he watches our video!

Thanks so much to David Friedman and Art Fry for this video. Click here to watch!

When a German TV crew just came to visit, we got to have fun with 50,000 sticky notes at the headquarters of Northeast Bank in Lewiston, Maine. Check out a video of our visit here. Watch for the new trick at 1:11, where we do a little chain reaction -- something we're working on in the EepyLab. Big thanks to Prosieben TV from Germany and to Northeast Bank for all their help!

Click Here to watch the video!

50,000 sticky notes at Northeast Bank!
Posted by Jaime on February 11th, 2009

We just finished filming a big sticky note extravaganza for German TV! The science show called

So thanks to the gang at Pro7 for sending the crew up here, and thanks to Northeast Bank for all their help. We all had a great time! And we'll let all y'all know as soon as we have a clip to show you -- the footage looked awesome, especially with their super slow motion camera!

Fritz and Stephen are two of the Most Intriguing people in Maine!
Posted by Jaime on October 30th, 2008

Fritz and Stephen are on the cover of the November issue of

EepyBird did two Live Diet Coke and Mentos performances, and they had two great videographers to take video of them. That means we will be putting up a new video of EepyBird doing the Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments, LIVE! You can also create your own live Diet Coke and Mentos show with our EepyKits. Make magazine is selling our Diet Coke and Mentos Kits on their website. The nozzles are exact replicas of what Fritz and Stephen use in their shows, and everyone at the EepyLab (and mostly Fritz and Stephen) helped to make them!

Finally, check out The Early Show on CBS this Saturday morning for an update on how the video is doing and some more sticky note stunts from the guys! Thanks for watching, and thanks for telling all your friends about the new videos!

Watch it, tell your friends, and let us know what you think!

These past few months have been busy ones for Fritz and Stephen. They travel often performing Diet Coke and Mentos around the globe, but they have also been working on the amazing new Sticky Note Experiments. I wanted to show everyone the super secret EepyLab so you would have an idea of what these past few months felt like.

These are photos showing the aftermath of the Sticky Note Experiments! The space is about 30 feet by 40 feet. It is huge, and who would have thought small 3x3 sticky notes would have such an effect? Click on the photos to enlarge them.

By the way, it still looks like that and we'll have a clean-up crew coming to help us VERY soon!!

The guys just finished shooting the raw footage for the Extreme Sticky Note Experiments this past weekend-and it looks amazing! Here's the scary part: during three days of shooting, they used 280,951 sticky notes. That's a lot of sticky notes. That's enough to make a solid stripe down the middle of the road over 13 miles long. Thank goodness these are reusable and recyclable!

Also, if you haven't seen it yet, Fritz and Stephen were a part of the viral video "Pork and Beans" by Weezer. First off, I think it is an extremely awesome video. (Mostly because I love Weezer, and I watch way too many viral videos!) They recreated the original Diet Coke & Mentos video, Experiment #137, in Los Angeles and soaked the band with Diet Coke-repeatedly! Take a look at the behind the scenes video! The guys said it was an unbelievable experience, and they got to hang out and have lunch with Chris Crocker (Leave Britney Alone), Tay Zonday (Chocolate Rain), and Caitlin Upton (Miss Teen South Carolina). In case anyone missed it too, at the very end of the video Fritz and Stephen make the Weezer symbol with Diet Coke geysers! Even I didn't notice it until Fritz told me, but it looks just like it!

Fritz and Stephen are in the EepyLabs as I write this, working on the new sticky note experiments. Things around here don't ever seem to stop, so here is another update from me, Jaime, on what Fritz and Stephen have been up to these past crazy months!

In April, they set a new world record by detonating 1,360 bottles in Lueven, Belgium! Check out this great video from YouTube that has an interview with Fritz and Stephen during the world record event. If you look closely, you'll notice that the bottles of Coca Cola are different from the 2 liters in America. They're taller and skinnier, and we were just glad that our nozzles fit them!

The guys had a blast going back to Belgium. Fritz spent way too much time and money in the Tintin store. They also saw the Atomium in Brussels (pictured), an amazing building built for the 1958 World's Fair. It's 102 meters tall, with nine huge, steel spheres connected to make the shape of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. It doesn't look very big in the photo until you realize how small the cars are next to it. And Fritz & Stephen ate Belgian waffles inside the center sphere!

Next update: The Mentos Experience in France and more news on the sticky note experiments!

So what has EepyBird been up to these past few months? Lets start a stroll through the EepyBird craziness...

At the beginning of this year Fritz and Stephen were working diligently in the EepyLabs on their newest experiment (hint: it has to do with sticky notes!). Then things started to get crazy when we were asked by Make Magazine to make EepyBird Diet Coke & Mentos kits that contain nozzles, pins, Mentos and instructions on how to make your own geysers. EepyLabs turned into a nozzle making facility for months to create the "Eepybird Diet Coke and Mentos Kits". The kits premiered at Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, on May 3rd and 4th. Take a look at a video of our kit in action here.

EepyBird did two live performances at Maker Faire and had a blast! Every time they go, Fritz and Stephen say that it is simply the coolest event on the face of the planet. If you have a chance to go, Maker Faire be in Austin, Texas in October, and back in San Mateo next May. Look for EepyBird there!

Maker Faire
Maker Faire in Austin, Texas was simply astounding. Put together by the folks at Make Magazine, this event is quite simply going to change the world. Okay, so seeing a life-size Mousetrap game is awesome, but there's an underlying idea behind it all: explore the world around you and see what amazing and unexpected things you can do. Makers want to break stuff to find out how it works, to find out what else they can get it to do, to innovate! These are our kind of people!

So really, Maker Faire is a place to see hackers of all kinds: people who weld bicycles together to make human-powered amusement park rides; people who make tiny magnetically-controlled magnetic fish; people who make the craziest miniature golf course ever (including a shrinking ray). It ranges from high-tech to low-tech, from huge machines to homemade gadgets.

One of my favorites was a homemade echo box: open a small wooden box (with some concealed circuitry inside), say something, and close the lid. When you next open the box, it echoes back what you said before. Beautifully simple.

The huge thing that blew my mind was a huge rolling ferris wheel, where three people pedal themselves around. It's hard to explain, so check out Rocketboom's video of Maker Faire - you'll see the rolling ferris wheel and a whole lot more.

Our performances featured what just might be the biggest crowds we've ever had and featured the unexpected bonus of a bunch of little kids running right into the middle of the show to get themselves soaking wet! If you watch carefully, you can see the kids on the Rocketboom video. It was great!

So if you have the chance, visit the next Maker Faire in San Mateo on May 3 & 4, 2008. It's amazing, and I sure hope we'll be there too!

Next stop: London, England. Coming soon...

Photos by Romain Nayalkar

Okay - how ridiculously beautiful can one country be? We've grabbed an extra day and a half here in Amsterdam before heading home, and I could so live here! We spent hours just walking around, looking at all the old houses, the churches, and the beautiful canals. We learned very quickly that there are parts of the road for cars and parts of the road for bicycles. Don't get in the way of the bicycles! There are a lot of them!

We spent a couple of hours at the Van Gogh Museum, where they've got an unbelievable collection, including 200 paintings by Van Gogh himself. Two of my favorites: Blossoming Almond Tree and Plaster Statuette of a Horse. In contrast to some of his big classics, they're both rather simple, which I like. It was great to see so many things by the same artist and get a sense of how he constantly explored new ideas. In one of his letters, Van Gogh said, "I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." Nice idea.

After seeing some beautiful Rembrandts & Vermeers at the Rijksmuseum (especially The Milkmaid), I even had time for a quick stop at the zoo, which was just around the corner from our hotel. They had an ijsbeer (pronounced "ice beer"). Click here to see a picture. All the kids at the zoo were particularly excited to see the wasbeer (pronounced "vas beer"). Perhaps not quite so exciting for us. Here's a picture. They had seven of them!

So now we head back for the U.S. I wonder how many movies I'll be able to watch during our eight hours on the plane home. It was a great trip, and I hope we'll be back again soon! Thanks again to Jacco and all the folks at Perfetti van Melle / Mentos!

We did it! After our record of 504 geysers in Cincinnati got beaten by the folks in Texas, we've won it back! The new record: 851 geysers of Mentos-powered soda, all at the same time. It was quite a sight! We spent the morning setting up for our performance: a 105-bottle variation on Experiment #137. With DJ Dazzle playing great music and MC Sherlock getting the crowd whipped into a frenzy, the Kasteelplein (that's Castle Square) was hopping! After our performance, we led the countdown, and all 851 of us (including me & Stephen) set off 851 Diet Coke & Mentos geysers. Actually, over here, it's "Coke Light" & Mentos geysers. Either way, 851 is a lot of geysers, and it looked so amazing. And it made a really, really, really big mess! That's where the cleaning crew was amazing: two hours later, you'd never guess that there'd been that much soda spraying all over the square.

So that's it - a whole lot of fun, and a whole lot of geysers. Right here at the home of Mentos. It doesn't get better than that! Although... we hear rumors that someone is going to try to break this record soon. I guess that means we'll have to come back here to Holland soon and do even more! Bring it on - that could be even more spectacular!

One side note: everyone calls us "The EepyBirds" over here, which is really fun. Our stage was called the "Podium EepyBirds." In the restaurant afterwards, we caught sight of a woman clearly explaining to her friend the whole Diet Coke & Mentos geyser thing, complete with big hand gestures of gushing soda, and in amongst the Dutch explanation, we heard, "de EepyBirds." Too cool!

Tomorrow, we make our way to Amsterdam, and take a little bit of time to see the sights before heading back home. We should be just getting adjusted to the time change, and then it'll be time to go home. =sigh= Huge, enormous, tremendous thanks to Jacco, Annerieke, Eva, and the whole gang at Perfetti van Melle / Mentos for a fantastic time in Holland! It was a spectacular success!

Click here to watch the video!

Just when we thought Holland couldn't get any cooler, we had another great day. After sleeping A LOT, we went to the Mentos factory in the morning. Every year, this place makes a billion rolls of Mentos - that's billion with a B. That's a lot of Mentos. We could make quite a geyser with that many! Inside the factory, we got chased by the robotic forklifts, saw the silos that store the 600 tons of sugar they use every week, and went to the huge warehouse where 6,500 huge crates of candy wait to be shipped around the world - including all the Mentos that we eat (and play with) in the U.S.

We had a nice afternoon walking around Breda. Can I just say that Holland is stunningly beautiful? Everywhere we look, it's like a picture postcard. All these canals, bicycles everywhere, little kids playing soccer in the street... Just as we came out of our hotel this morning, a woman drove by on a bicycle with a basketful of sunflowers. It's all so ridiculously perfect!

After a spiffy radio interview with a reporter switching seamlessly between English & Dutch (which sounds so cool, with long, round vowels interrupted by explosions of phlegmy consonants), we just had to go back to the same restaurant as last night for more tiramisu - the world's perfect dessert.

And so, we are almost ready for tomorrow's world record attempt. We just heard that we've got to get more than 791 to beat the new record by the folks in Texas. So we're hoping to get more than 800 people to show up tomorrow to help us set this record. Fingers crossed!

It's m'birthday, it's m'birthday! And here we are in Holland! Booyah! We're a little bit jet lagged, but we had a great day. We flew into Schipol Airport in Amsterdam bright and early: 8am. That'd be 2am back home. What a great time to start your day! This is our fourth trip to Europe, and every time, as soon as we land, we're headed for a performance. This was no exception: after a quick shower, it was off to the TV studio for an appearance on "Jansen" - one of Holland's biggest TV shows. Jansen was super cool, and we had a great time - sat on the big red couch, talked about our upcoming world record attempt, and did a couple Diet Coke & Mentos stunts. Jansen himself even set off a geyser all over his desk - it was fantastic!

We then headed for Breda, where we'll be trying to set the new world record on Saturday. We're in Holland, all the people are riding bicycles, I had some of the best food ever, and my room in the hotel even has an electric fireplace with a remote control. It's my birthday, and life is good!

EepyBird's Going to Holland!
Posted by Fritz on August 27th, 2007

Besides being hard at work on a super secret new video, we'll be traveling a lot this fall. Good thing we got our passports up to date, 'cause we're heading for Holland on September 12. I'll actually get to celebrate my birthday while we're over there. Sometimes life is good.

We'll visit the big Mentos factory and try to set another world record. That will be in Breda on Saturday, September 15. We're taking the video camera along, so you can go behind the scenes with us and see more Diet Coke & Mentos geysers than anyone's ever done before. Along the way, I'm counting on seeing windmills and some Rembrandt paintings. And I can't wait to try all the funky flavors of Mentos that we don't have in the U.S.

After Holland, we'll be traveling for much of September and October, before the weather gets too cold for good geysers (Unless we head for Australia! Hmmm...). I'll post more details on our other performances soon.

Between shows, we're working on a very cool new video. We just spent a couple of days building several dozen prototype devices... but I mustn't say too much! It's all hush hush, top secret, and a ton of fun. We'll keep you posted!

YouTube Gathering: 07.07.07
Posted by Fritz on July 9th, 2007

We're just back from 07.07.07, the awesome gathering of YouTubers in New York City! We spent the entire day in Washington Square Park with a gazillion YouTubers (I believe the official count was 1.2 gazillion), and we came ever so close to doing a big Diet Coke & Mentos geyser display. Here's the story:

For us, the day at the park began at 9 am, since it takes us over three hours to set up for a live performance of Experiment 137. We looked around for the ideal location and found it: right between the fountain and the arch - a beautiful location & the drainage is good! Then Park Policeman #1 stopped by. He looked at the permit that Jill had so wonderfully obtained, and everything seemed okay. So we started setting up. At 11 am, Park Policeman #2 (also known as The Supervisor) stopped by. Everything seemed okay, so we loaded up all our Mentos and got all our bottles of Diet Coke ready. Then at 12:30 pm, Park Policeman #3 (also known as The Supervisor's Supervisor) stopped by. And it was clear that everything was not okay. We're still not quite sure what was wrong with the permit, but they made it clear that the show would not go on. D'oh!

So there we were, with over 200 big bottles of Diet Coke that we really didn't want to load back on the truck. So we started giving them away - to people who promised not to get us in trouble by setting off geysers in the park! Later in the day, a few rebellious folk did go and find some Mentos & Diet Coke (the people will be heard!) and set off some renegade geysers!

It was disappointing not to be able to perform for everyone, particularly 'cause we were shut down so close to show time. But everyone was super nice to us, and we had a great time! We got to meet Chad Vader, HappySlip, Nalts, and a whole lot of other great YouTubers. Most of all, it was great to see what an incredible community there is, get to talk to so many great people, and meet everyone face to face, not just watch their videos online! We shot a bunch of video while we were there, and we'll be editing it together a.s.a.p. Check back in a few days!

Our thanks to David, Mike D., Mike V., Paige, and Carrie for all their help. And a huge, huge thank you to Matt and Tim, who were all set to provide, for the first time ever, *live music* for an EepyBird performance. Yep - imagine Audiobody performing "You Gotta Tap" live with the geysers going off right then and there! Ah, it was so close!

Next time (I sure hope there is a next time!), if we talk to them far enough in advance, I wonder if they'd let us do Diet Coke & Mentos geysers inside the fountain pool? It'd make cleanup a lot easier! Hmm...

Tuesday:

Not a lot of excitement today - just a lot of time on airplanes. The guy behind us on the plane stole an extra snack from the galley. And then he spilled tomato juice all over himself. Can you say karma?

Mike & Kim are going with us, which is most excellent. They are the folks who run the Oddfellow Theater, our amazing artistic home base in Buckfield, Maine. Besides being a phenomenal performer, Mike was behind the camera for our first big video.

We're all staying at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood - with a great view of the Hollywood sign. How cool is this? We're right next door to the Kodak Theatre where they have the Oscar ceremonies and Graumann's Chinese Theater where all the famous people put their hands & feet in cement. Tomorrow: business meetings with big Hollywood-types and going to the beach!

Monday:

The Emmys are on Thursday. Yikes! I've never worn a tuxedo in my life! So this evening, we went down to JC Penney. Near as I can tell, that's the only place within 50 miles where we can get tuxedos in time - remember, folks, we live in Buckfield, Maine!

The only pants they had for me were four inches too big in every direction. So as I type, our friend Nancy is frantically hemming, cutting, stitching, and moving buttons so that when we leave in the morning, I will actually have a tux. For the Emmys. How very surreal.

We won't be on TV - that's a different night - unless, like the technical Oscars, they show you a bit of the Broadband awards during the Daytime telecast. But check out the live web cast. It starts at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern, this Thursday, the 14th. Click here for all the details!. Thanks for all your support - it's been a heck of a year. Wish us luck!

Tuesday, June 5:

We ended up setting off 80 bottles (check out the video on CNN). The surprise of the night: we're performing right next to the building, so all our angled geysers ricocheted off the wall. Right onto me! I had several moments of feeling like I was surrounded by firehoses of Diet Coke. I don't think I've ever gotten soaked so much, and we're used to getting soaked to the skin!

My favorite speech of the night was by Clearification: "Thanks, Mom. Whoever you are."

So, now: to sleep for a few hours. Home tomorrow - hurrah! Lots of thanks to David & Michael for making sure that the Diet Coke and trays all arrived for the performance. Thanks to Matt for all the help setting up. Thanks to the Webbys and all their crew for a great couple of days - thanks for the awards! And thanks to all of you for watching and voting!

Monday, June 4:

Tonight was the Webby Online Film & Video Awards - WOW! Who'd have thought, a year ago, that we'd be here, all dressed up, walking on a red carpet with actual paparazzi?! It's exactly a year and a day since we put our first video online. Now we're at over 18,000,000 views. Mind you, the organizers didn't recognize us at first, since we weren't wearing the lab coats and goggles. So they apologetically came and grabbed us from the reception & made us walk back down the red carpet. It was wild - just like on TV: the cameras were snapping, with photographers calling, "over here, over here!" It was so completely surreal!

Acceptance speeches at the Webbys are limited to five words, which makes for some great speeches - and a much quicker ceremony. For our acceptance speech, I got to go up and say: "18,000,000 views. Still no dates." =sigh=

Lots of people came up to me at the afterparty! :)