Tape Sculptures

I haven't found much, but I was looking for something interesting, so I typed in graphiti (please excuse spelling) and I found all sorts of things that are cool. Among the coolest, tape sculptures. You won't believe how good this guy is at making these tape sculptures. The coolest part of all is that he leaves them out in the street in D.C. for everyone to look at. This guy's name is Mark Jenkins.

click on the "tape sculptures" title to go to his site

If you want to make your own, he has a tutorial at:
http://www.tapesculpture.org

Birds

Well, I was thinking, two sports teams that are from Louisville are named the Cardinals. Well, that makes me conclude that the state bird of Kentucky is a Cardinal. Wouldn't you? Well, I did a quick google just to figure out if this is in fact true, and yes it is.

The Cardinal was declared state bird of Kentucky on February 26, 1926. Basically because it is the native bird of Kentucky.

You can find a list of state birds at:

http://www.netstate.com/states/tables/st_birds.htm

Largest Baseball Bat

Right now my theme is record setting objects, that people know exist but sometimes doubt if it is true.

Well, if there is a world's largest ball of twine, there has got to be a World's largest baseball bat. Where is it you might ask? Well, when you think of a baseball bat, what brand do you think of?

If you said Louisville Slugger than you are correct!

The World's largest baseball bat is standing 120 feet tall leaning against the Louisville slugger museum/factory in Louisville Kentucky. But unfortunately, it is not made out of wood. It is made out of metal

visit the Louisville Slugger factory/museun website at:

www.sluggermuseum.org

World's Largest Ball of Twine

Many people have heard that there is a ball of twine somewhere on the side of the road that is huge from their friends. I wanted to see if that is true and where it is.

I looked it up of google and i found out about it. There are three mabye more twine balls that are the considered the world's Largest. The first result on google was one in Cawker Kansas and another in Darvin Minnesota. the other one was made by a man in four years which I will get to later. Here is a little backround on the twine balls.

Francis Jhonson of Darvin Minnesota started this collossal ball of twine in 1950. He had it at his home and it was an attraction until he died in 1985. Another man by the Name of Frank Stoeber of Cawker City Kansas started one in 1953. His ball was smaller than Jhonson's ball, but people added on to it. The other ball was made by J.C. Payne of Valley View of Texas in 1985. H decided that he wanted to set the world record, and he did. He started his winding in 1987 and finished four years later. I could not find how tall the tallest one is now on Guinness world records .com, but I am sure that J.C's is the tallest.

I found a great website about this. The URL is:

http://www.thom.org/gallery/set/twine.html


the image shown above is of the one in Cawker Kansas. The better known one. Click on the Question Mark to view the image and another website about it.

Welcome to IOG

Have you ever been sitting at the couch or the dinner table and thought of something really random like when was salad dressing invented? You are not alone. I was sitting at the dinner table and thought of some of those things to look up. Then I thought about making a blog that will cover pretty much the most diverse topics from the history of salad dressing to Where the world's largest ball of twine is.

You too can join me in this ongoing project. Leave comments if you'd like to tell me how I am doing with my blog. I would really appreciate that.

That was really not much of an introduction, but it is good enough.

Just so you know- everything that I will look up to put on this blog is one of the search results from www.google.com

At the end of each post I will put the URL at the bottom of where I got it from. Or I will put a link on the side if I can figure out how to do that.

Well that is all that I have to say other than welcome to IOG.