EepyBird, the Coke and Mentos Viral Video Guys, Speak at Common Hour Feb. 24

Story posted February 17, 2012

Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, the creators of the infamous Internet videos of Coke and Mentos, will speak at the next Common Hour Friday, February 24, 2012, at 12:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

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Known as EepyBird, Grobe and Voltz will give a talk titled "1/10/100: Unlocking Creativity" in which they speak about their creative process and their methods for opening up creativity in everyone.

The event is open to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.

Grobe and Voltz have been nominated for two Emmy Awards and won four Webby Awards, and their viral videos have been seen more than 150 million times.

They explore how everyday objects can do extraordinary things, from Coke and Mentos becoming 25-foot-tall geysers (watch the video below) to 250,000 sticky notes transforming into waterfalls of color. This has led to appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Today, Ellen, Mythbusters, and many other television programs.

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Fritz Grobe left his mathematics studies at Yale University to perform as a juggler, and he soon took the juggling world by storm. He has won five gold medals at the International Jugglers Championships and set a world record for juggling way too many objects. In 2004, he created a leading role, and was the featured solo clown, in the Cirque du Soleil spin-off "Birdhouse Factory," a show that The New York Times recently called "engrossingly entertaining...in a word, excellent!"

Stephen Voltz was a street performer in San Francisco, doing shows as a magician, juggler, and fire-eater, before becoming a responsible adult and going to law school at New York University. After 16 years as a trial lawyer in Boston, he returned to performing with his one-man show "The Benefit of Doubt," which premiered at San Francisco's EXIT Theater.

In 2000, Voltz and Grobe met while studying physical theater at Celebration Barn, Maine's international school for original theater. They began working together, exploring new possibilities in ordinary objects, and in 2006, launched what the world now knows as EepyBird.


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