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Amy Krouse Rosenthal

person · in 14 videos (2007–2012)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2008: 5 · 2009: 1 · 2010: 5 · 2011: 1 · 2012: 1

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2007

2008

  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — John says that at 8:08 p.m. on 8/8/08 he and, he hopes, many Nerdfighters will join Amy Krouse Rosenthal at The Bean in Millennium Park, where she will do something awesome. (00:00:48)
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John adds that they will meet at 4 o'clock for the wizard rock concert in Grant Park and at 8:08 p.m. at The Bean, where Amy Krouse Rosenthal will "make awesome happen". (00:00:00)
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — John recalls that at the end of the Chicago Nerdfighter night on 8/8/08 hundreds of Nerdfighters met Amy Krouse Rosenthal at the Bean without knowing her plan. (00:01:34)
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — John says Rosenthal made a film, The Beckoning of Lovely, starring many Nerdfighters including him; it is only the first part of her project. (00:01:55)
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — John invites everyone to make and do lovely things and send them to Amy for her next step, calling the project right up his alley. (00:01:55)
  • 2008-12-27 · Skoodilypooping — John recalls that on 8/8/08 he, Hank and many Nerdfighters made a movie, The Beckoning of Lovely, with his friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-12-27 · Skoodilypooping — John says the movie turned out to be the first part of an ambitious project by Amy, also called The Beckoning of Lovely; more information is linked. (00:00:00)

2009

  • 2009-10-07 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — John recommends The Beckoning of Lovely, a profoundly moving community-based project his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal is doing with many people, including many Nerdfighters. (00:01:59)

2010

  • 2010-09-16 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John says his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal called him with the idea of positive pranking: using the pranking ethos to decrease world suck. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-09-16 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John says Amy launched the positive pranking campaign by reinventing ding-dong ditching, delivering actual Hostess Ding Dongs to strangers throughout Chicago; the video is linked in the description. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-09-16 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John recommends Amy Krouse Rosenthal's original positive pranking video and her Mission AmyKR project. (00:02:07)
  • 2010-09-18 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank says he has decided to follow John's and Amy Krouse Rosenthal's lead and do some positive pranking. (00:00:20)
  • 2010-10-05 · The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca — At the festival party John meets 'noted positive pranker' Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who is organizing an event at the Bean in Chicago, 'a kind of sequel to 8-8-08'; John will play a very minor role. (00:01:56)
  • 2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John says the Beckoning of Lovely was crazy beautiful, with about a thousand people coming together with Amy Krouse Rosenthal to welcome everything lovely into the world. (00:00:58)
  • 2010-12-14 · 8 Things I Love — John recommends his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Beckoning of Lovely project and a link to what happened on 10/10/10 in Chicago, which might make you cry. (00:00:59)

2011

  • 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — John says viewers can be part of a feature film by his longtime collaborator Amy Krouse Rosenthal for the Beckoning of Lovely: she wants people worldwide to design their own greeting based on a Beckoning of Lovely anagram (wording unclear). (00:02:27)
  • 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — John shows examples by Amy and by him and his friend Stan, points to a how-to video, and calls the Beckoning of Lovely an amazing project going on for three years. (00:02:58)

2012