photo taken by Anthony Quintano http://www.quintanomedia.com

We are still in recovery mode but wanted to make a quick post updating everyone on the success of LOST-A-THON.

We ended the LOST season finale (which we agreed was a nice way to close out LOST), having completed our 94hr, 51-minute television marathon!  Now we just need to send off our documents to Guinness World Records for approval as new world record holders.

Many thanks go out to our volunteers, sponsors, and supporters around the world for your encouragement to make this a success. We’d especially like to thank Professor Thom’s for the space, Best Buy for the equipment, Livestream for sending the event around the world, Linode.com for fixing the site after Damon Landelof’s tweet crashed it, MyJumpsuit for making us look cool, JakPrints for publicity, Rockstar, Think Gum, and Function Drinks for keeping us awake, and Chipotle, Professor Thom’s and Papa Lima for feeding us.

We’ll be posting pictures and videos shortly, so if you have some please send to lostathon@gmail.com and we’ll add them to the site!  We’ll also be posting info on how to buy limited edition t-shirts and event passes too.

Even though the LOST-A-THON is complete, our charities still need your support.  We’ll continue taking donations through the end of the week.  Please be generous and donate now.

Namaste,

Aaron, Alex & Mike

Only 2 hours of sleep, but we’re still going strong.

Hey Guys,
We’re just starting hour 18 of the marathon (we’re in the thick of Exodus pt. 2) and we’re still going strong! Here’s a picture of the guys doing what the do best… watching LOST.

watching in anticipation as they try to blow the hatch door open

Check out our live stream and make sure to keep donating to The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Doctors Without Borders and The Nature Conservancy!

http://lostathon.com/donate-now/charities/

-Thanks/Namaste
Alex, Aaron and Mike

Many of you have been asking what the rules are for LOST-A-THON. Here’s a brief rundown:

We’re watching all episodes from The Pilot culminating with the live series finale back-to-back. Guinness rules allow 5 minute breaks per one hour of television watched and we are allowed to build up this rest time. Our strategy is to watch twelve or so hours in a row and take longer breaks so we can rest. It’s been working pretty well so far!

We are allowed to eat and drink while watching. However, we have to use break time to talk on the cell phone, go to the bathroom, leave the TV area, etc.

Thanks for all of your questions. Please be sure to visit the donate page and donate to the charities here.

Tasty breakfast of bacon, eggs, and fruit just arrived from our stellar hosts Professor Thom’s – THANKS.  Break time soon with NPR for a LOST-A-THON interview!

When it came time to choose what organization to donate to, the decision was easy one for me.  Love ‘em or hate ‘em; at some point we all need a little TLC from an MD with a steady hand… not named Christian Shephard.  All joking aside, Medecins Sans Frontieres a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders provides support to communities, world wide, in the most dire and difficult situations imaginable.

The abridged origin of the organization is that it was started in 1971 by a team of doctors and journalists who believed in the same principle that all people have the right to medical care regardless of who they are, what they believe, and where they are located.  Turns out a lot of people felt the same.  With more than 25,000 experts and intrepid volunteers deployed around the world, Doctors Without Borders has evolved into the type of association that can bring hope to us all and that speaks volumes about the human heart’s capacity for compassion – even in trying times as these.  In 1999, Medecins Sans Frontieres was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its ‘continuous effort to provide medical care in acute crises, as well as raising international awareness of potential humanitarian disasters’.

Now I’ll try not to get too Sally Struthers on everyone here (after all I’m not that good looking), but LOST-A-THON is serious about its worthy causes.  Most of us can (and will) go on debating our theories about the questions answered and unanswered poised by LOST, but in this moment of frothy enjoyment as our favorite show comes to a close, we have an opportunity as a community to come together and show our strength in numbers and support.  There has never been a show as polarizing as LOST (we’ve all had are fair share of debates and arguments with the haters), but when all is said and done if all us pitch in and come together there will be nothing that naysayers will be able to deny about the positive and real outcome that this show produced.  So as the series wraps up, donate and feel better about being part of community of people who enjoy a well told and engaging story and at the same time give damn about their fellow woman and man – even those who prefer American Idol.