“The idea of applying thousands of layers of paint on a baseball stuck with Michael Carmichael through the years, and on January 1st, 1977 he had his eldest son, who was three at the time, paint over another baseball. That was when the world’s largest ball of paint was born, and over the years, it just kept getting bigger, a lot bigger. Although he claims there were periods of time of up to a year when he didn’t paint one layer on his ball, it still numbers well over 20,000 coats of colored paint, and weighs over half a ton. At first he only intended to apply only 1,000 layers to the baseball, then cut it in half to see what it looks like, but his family encouraged him to keep painting it, and he hasn’t stopped since.” w/ photos
