Internet dude named Jon counts to 100,000 (video)

[Video Links: part 1, part 2.] My question isn't so much "how high he can go," but how high he is. (via Joe Sabia)

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Antinous / Moderator

It’s about time Jon Waters put out a new film.
- Bill
  
  John Waters
archmagetrexasaurus

I can’t believe how long it took me to realize that that first video is over 74 HOURS long.
- SamSam
  
  Yeah, I too was like “74 minutes long! That’s really long!”
  
  ……
http://www.facebook.com/graham.g.martin Graham Martin

So did he get over 9000?
nosehat

I thought the maximum length for a Youtube video was 15 minutes!!?

I was thinking more Andy Warhol than Jon Waters myself.
- jojowasher
  
  they changed it a while ago to a size limitation, its limited to 1GB, so as long as you can stretch it out…
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I thought of Jon Waters because he sounds like the Egg Lady when he starts. And there’s not that much difference between 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 and Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!
  - nosehat
    
    Ah ha! Right you are.
http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore

Wonder Showzen already did it! Granted they, um, may have skipped a few numbers. O;)
GuyInMilwaukee

Now if he was reading out pi I would have watched longer.
Oskar

I skipped to the end of the of the second video, and he missed 99991. He went straight from 99990 to 99992. He looks like he’s about to pass out, so not so weird. Bummer dude, having gone for 70+ hours and wiffing it in the top ten (though presumably he’s missed a bunch of them earlier).
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenahoo Ken Williams
  
  He also went from 243 to 245.
dculberson

It was better than cats.
http://thebeatdown.disqus.com Franklin

I liked the part where he was counting
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5OQFBZ26C3VQ5ONGZGDBDY4BUU Mark A

I also know all the numbers but I don’t show off.
http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

That 80′s B&W film ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ had a guy on a treadmill counting to a million in German.
http://nerdynothings.com Noah Nickels

I knew a guy like this, he took me out to his shed to show me some “puppets”. They were made of human skin and popsicle sticks. And to think that guy could only reach 47,184. Imagine what THIS guy’s “puppets” are made of.
http://www.facebook.com/maxsmouha Max Smouha

soy de nicaragua y yo no entiendo este video. nadie puede traducir este video para mi? gracias.
wrybread

Wow, all that work and the sound isn’t synced, and the video quality is really bad. Someone get this guy a producer…

I guess that’s what sequels are for.

That being said, awesome. I could see this in SF Moma (or wherever) in a dark room, being projected on a wall. Its as good as anything I’ve seen there, and I don’t mean that insultingly to SF Moma.
jeligula

Sounds like OCD to me. Just because the numbers are there does not mean that you have to count them.
- Pip_R_Lagenta
  
  How do we know the numbers are there if we don’t count them?
J Qualmann

Confirmed what Oskar said. He missed 99 991.
- http://twitter.com/mikescottiskiff Mike Scott
  
  he should start again.
willyboy

I had to stop at 68
jimkirk

Reminds me of Jonathan Borofsky, an artist who, when he’s not creating art, is writing down numbers. Hundreds of notebooks full of consecutive integers. He signs his work with whatever number he was currently up to. I went to an installation of his and it was the strongest feeling of being inside someone’s head I’ve ever had.

http://www.borofsky.com/
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Announcer: And now, Yakko Warner sings all of the words in the

English language!

Yakko: Aardvark, abating, abet, abdicating

Abandon, abase and abreast

Ablaze and ablution, abhor and abusion

Abbreviate, abbey, abscessed.

Abduct and ablation, abridge and abrasion

Abash and abrupt and abride

Abscond and absentia, absent, abstentia

Abdomen, ably, abide.

Abominable, abrogate, absolute, absent

Absorbent, abstention, abstraction

Absurd and abundant, abusive, abutment

Acacia, academy, action.

Accede and accost and accept and across

And accompany, acre, accord

Accomplish, account and accrue and amount

Acrimonious, active, adored.

Adrenaline, adulate, adder and advocate

Advertise, adverse, abrade

Advice, adversarial, advent and aerial

Affluent, after, afraid.

Dot : Well, there it is: Yakko Warner now well under way in singing

all the words in the English language. I’m Dot Warner. With

me is Dick Button. Dick, a good start?

Dick : Oh, yes, Dot — a marvelous start to what is a difficult,

difficult routine.

Dot : Stay tuned, and we’ll be back to bring you the whole thing.
.

Yakko: Level and levity, lewd and longevity

Libel, libation, Lanai

Lithium, litigate, legal, legitimate
Liberty, levy and lie.

Dot : Welcome back. Yakko’s now at the L’s as he tries to sing all

the words in the English language. A slight mistake at the

F’s — here’s what it looked like:

Yakko: Facial and faction and fractal and fraction

And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé

Frankincense, frankish and frakisish, frashhh…

Shoot! Yada yada flambé!

Dick : Now, that mistake could have proved costly for Yakko, but he

recovered beautifully.

Dot : Now let’s watch as Yakko continues with the L’s.

Yakko: Libation and libertine, limited, limousine

Limpid and limbo and lime

Lima and lipid and literature, liquid

And listing and liter and line.

There’s lobby and loading and loathsome and loaning

And logo and then locomotion

There’s lotus and lottery, lobo, lobotomy

Logic and loosen and lotion.

Lozenge and lubber and lucky and lover

And lullaby, lumber and luke

Luster and luscious and lunatic, lustrous

And lurking and lunar and lute.

Dot : Yakko’s now about halfway through all the words in the English

language. Dick Button and I will be back with more.
.

Yakko: Zachary, Zanzibar, zappy and zamindar

Zillion and ZIP code and Zen

Zany and zoning and zeal and zirconium
Zodiac, zombie, ze-in.

Dot : Yakko Warner, now moments away from having sung all the words

in the English language. Dick Button, is he going to make it?

Dick : If it was anyone else, I’d say no, but he’s young, he’s

resilient; we’ll just have to see.

Yakko: Zigging and zagging and zealous and zebra

And zenith and zap and zaffer

Zeppelin and zipper and zephyr and zither

Then zinc and zombini

And zoo and zucchini

And Zulu and Zorro

Then zit and zamoro

And zero and zoom and… ugh!

Dot : Guess not!

Yakko: Wait!

…Zaire!

Dot : He did it! Yakko Warner has just sung all the words in the

English language!

Dick : Hey, congratulations, Yakko.

Yakko: Thanks, Dick.

Dick : Join us next time, when Yakko Warner will sing all of the

numbers above zero. Goodnight
jimkirk

Also this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hundred-Song/dp/B001INUDXC

Thank you, Flanders & Swann
秀平月

I had a routine where I’d count from 1 to 100.

Quite the party trick back in kindergarten.
http://www.bartgrootveld.com Bart Grootveld

High five if you watched the whole movie!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cliff-Mintzer/100000948414919 Cliff Mintzer

He skipped 244.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Christensen/676694755 Mike Christensen

He should have put a Rick Roll in around 37,000 or so.. That would definitely have gotten me.
fishman23

Thees guys did a vid about counting to a trillion it’s pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-Esmx-St8&sns=em
thethethe

See the video above. DJ Mayonnaise Hands did this bit like 4 years ago.