Thursday, 25 July 2013

Final Statistics

Totals

1593 Cans
710 Litres
3180 Units

Can Breakdown

Alex: 717
Jon: 412
Ian: 84
Dave: 96
Marta: 155
Guests: 129

Other Stats

Most cans contributed by a guest: 26 (tied - Mark and Chris)
Cans broken beyond repair: 15 (1593 by the end!)
Most cans contributed in one night: 40

Tallest Tower: 2.85m (20 storeys)

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Fast-Motion Video

 

Here it is - watch the 105 minute build of the 20 storey tower condensed into just 5 in this special time-lapse video!

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Old pictures resurfaced!

Hello!

Work is still ongoing for the last beer can tower videos, the first of which will be the fast-motion of us building the final tower. The build constitutes 105 minutes of continual video, so it's quite CPU intensive getting it sped up and all put together. This is especially true as it was filmed with a pretty top-of-the-range camera, with the raw footage taking up 12GB in total. I've had to resort to using a proper desktop computer as my laptop couldn't begin to handle files that big!

The other videos are on hold whilst I gather all the footage together - different angles were filmed on many of my housemate's devices and I need to get a hold of all that before I start. These include the destruction of 19 and 20, but there may be others such as outtakes and a compilation of all the destructions in one video.

In the mean-time, here's an ancient photo which Dave recently stumbled upon on his computer. It pre-dates any of those posted when this blog began, showing the tower back when it was only 6 storeys high. I can't believe we even thought it was photo-worthy at this point, but here it is anyway!:

56 cans - only 1494 away from where we ended up! 

Friday, 5 July 2013

Saturday, 29 June 2013

We did it!

Our final year of University is over, and unfortunately that has meant the end of this project of ours too. To say that the last few weeks were hectic would be an understatement, with many of us having scary adult stuff like flat viewings, car test drives and so on all in prepartion for where we end up next year. Then there was the whole house to clean and all of our stuff to pack, so it really was just a blur.

At one point it seemed impossible that we'd manage to get the 20 storey tower built in time - we had very few days left and were a good 30 cans short of our target with no real opportunities to drink them because of how busy we all were. Thankfully we found a couple of free evenings and, with the help of Dave who loaned us his room, we were able to knock down 19 and build 20 the very next day without even having to clear the cans away first. So here it is - the victory photo. Behold the 20 storey tower!:

Mission Accomplished!
My thanks go out to Dave for sacrificing his room the day before he had to leave (hero), as well as to everyone whose contributions got us here - we literally only had one or two cans spare at the end so we needed every one of you! I have plenty of videos still to make which'll be appearing over the next month or two - amongst them will be the destruction of 19 and 20, as well as a special fast-motion video to show just what went into building the 20 storeys at the end. I also just posted statistics from the third year, and of course at some point I'll do an overall version of that!

Year 3 Statistics

Totals

624 Cans
271 Litres
1226 Units

Can Breakdown

Alex: 271
Jon: 147
Ian: 32
Dave: 22
Marta: 91
Guests: 61

Other Stats

Most cans contributed by a guest: 16 (Mark)
Cans broken beyond repair: 5
Most cans contributed in one night: 40

Tallest Tower: 2.82m (20 storeys)

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

The final push...

It's a matter of days before we have to move out for good and we still have to knock down BCT19, drink enough cans for 20 storeys and build/destroy BCT20... but we think we can still do it! It's going to take some effort but hopefully by the time we all move out on Saturday we'll have done everything we wanted to with this project.

More updates to follow soon!

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Friday, 8 March 2013

Triple Tower

Triple Tower (14, 12, 10)
(07/03/13 - 05/05/13)



Destruction : Angry Birds

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Saturday, 23 February 2013

Unscheduled Collapse!

In the past week we've been laying plans for the destruction of the 18th tower, only to have them well and truly thwarted yesterday evening when the tower decided to partially collapse of its own accord!

Not wanting to waste our plans on a partially-collapsed tower we improvised and came up with something else instead. We should be able to squeeze a video out of it, but for now here are some pictures of what we had to deal with...

Sunday, 20 January 2013