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Friday, July 26, 2013

4 years of friendship to 40 days of dating

I feel like I'm some sort of physic or something. Well not really, but I feel like I stumble upon things and then soon after they become extremely successful and well-known. Like Justin Bieber, for instance. I was watching YouTube videos of an amazing singer named Esmee Denters. One day while watching her videos she was singing with a cute little boy... aka JUSTIN FREAKIN' BIEBER. I thought he was a really good singer, but didn't think too much about him after that. Then about a year later Justin Bieber got "discovered" by Usher and the rest is history. So basically I'm good at scouting something before it gets big.

This recently happened again. I saw a random link on Facebook and ended up on a website called 40 Days of Dating. The website is a blog of an experiment created and carried out by two designers based in New York, Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman. They've been friends for four years and are both at a point in their lives when they're fed up with the dating scene. They decided to start an experiment where they date for 40 days to see what would happen: love, a ruined friendship, a better friendship? 

Their blog tracks everyday of the experiment and both Jessie and Tim fill out a detailed questionnaire about what's going on, how they're feeling and any thoughts/comments. It's pretty much like a mixture of an extremely addictive book and TV show. Once I discovered it I couldn't help but going back to see what a new day of dating had led to for the two of them. 
Jessie

Tim

But a blog post a day wasn't cutting it for my newfound love for Jessie and Tim's relationship. So I decided to Google them to see if I could find anything more about them. I couldn't. Their website wasn't even on the first page of the google search when I looked it up! But lo and behold, a couple of days later I looked again and Huffington Post and numerous magazines had articles written about the experiment. Excuse me?! It's like I had found Jessie and Tim's experiment only a few days before the rest of the world did. 

Anyway, you should check out their blog if you get the time. It's really a cool idea what they're doing. And I'll keep you guys posted on any more things I stumble upon so you can look it up before it becomes a successful hit!