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John's 8/8/08 event in Chicago: library talk, Grant Park and The Bean (2008)

project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2008-08-21) · last mentioned: 2020-12-31

John's day of Nerdfighter events in Chicago on 8 August 2008: a talk and signing at the Harold Washington Library, wizard rock in Grant Park and a gathering at The Bean, where Amy Krouse Rosenthal's The Beckoning of Lovely was made. About 380 to 400 Nerdfighters came to the library, and the brothers have looked back on it for years as their first huge gathering.

Told alongside: Amy Krouse Rosenthal calls John after her cancer diagnosis and he says 'You do so much yoga' (told 2020) · John invites viewers to take part in Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 10/10/10 event at the Bean in Chicago (2010) · The Beckoning of Lovely: Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 10/10/10 gathering at the Bean, Chicago (2010) · P4A 2008 edition · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · John, Hank and Maureen Johnson speak at a Grand Rapids library (2008) · Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005)

About: Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago (city), Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Cloud Gate, Grant Park, Terminus, Wizard rock

date event what video
2008-07-30 announced John announces his 8/8/08 day in Chicago: a 2 p.m. talk and signing at the Harold Washington Library, Grant Park music at 4 p.m., and The Bean at 8:08 p.m. Audiobooks and 8 8 08 00:00:25
2008-08-04 (said on 2008-08-01, implied) rule change Hank asks people coming to the Chicago library talk to pre-register in the sidebar because the library may not have enough space. (hedged) Breakdancing in Missoula Montana 00:02:36
2008-08-06 rule change John says the Harold Washington Library will try to accommodate everyone for the 2 p.m. event, with awesome available for anyone who cannot get in; then Grant Park at 4 and The Bean at 8:08 p.m. Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) 00:00:00
2008-08-12 (happened 2008-08-08) outcome Hank reports over 380 Nerdfighters at the Chicago library event, then wizard rock in the park, the collaborative movie at The Bean and a concert. Eight Days of Awesome 00:02:42
2008-08-21 (happened 2008-08-08) outcome A CBS 2 report says about 400 young adults came to John's Chicago library event, some waiting over two hours to meet the brothers. INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH 00:02:08
2008-12-26 looked back John recalls that on 8/8/08 he, Hank and a bunch of Nerdfighters made the movie The Beckoning of Lovely with Amy Krouse Rosenthal, which turned out to be the first part of her larger project. Skoodilypooping 00:00:00
2010-10-04 looked back John calls Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 10/10/10 event at the Bean a kind of sequel to 8-8-08. The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca 00:02:09
2012-08-14 looked back John recalls his first wizard rock concert in Grant Park and the first huge Nerdfighter gathering at the Bean on 8/8/08, four years earlier. To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:01:26
2016-08-02 looked back John looks back on 8/8/08: the first huge Nerdfighter gathering alongside Terminus, meeting Rosianna, and Amy's Beckoning of Lovely at the Bean. Beckoning Lovely 00:01:25
2016-08-03 looked back Hank adds his 8/8/08 memories to John's: 100 CDs from Kinko's sold at Terminus, his first Harry Potter convention and one of his first times playing music for people. → refers to Beckoning Lovely Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 00:00:00
2017-11-03 looked back John recalls 8/8/08 in Chicago, when Harry Potter fans sang Hank's songs so loudly he could barely hear Hank, and hanging out with Amy Krouse Rosenthal later that night. Because We're Here 00:00:18
2020-12-31 looked back John played a bit part in an experience Amy curated for hundreds of people on August 8, 2008, in Millennium Park, but it was never again like the early days. · also in: We're here because were here., John's Review of Auld Lang Syne Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:12:35

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).

What is said about it

23 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: John announces that at 2 p.m. on August 8, 2008 he will be at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago, talking, signing books and giving things away. — 00:00:25
  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: John: Because the day coincides with the Harry Potter conference Terminus, John says special guests will come: Secret Brother Adam, Secret Sister Rosianna, some of the Five Awesome Girls and Guys, and a surprise guest. (playful) — 00:00:25
  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: John says that after he finishes at 4 p.m. the group will go to Grant Park to hear wizard rockers (names unclear) and possibly a special guest. (hedged) — 00:00:48
  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: 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. (hedged) — 00:00:48
  • 2008-08-04 (said on 2008-08-01, implied) · Breakdancing in Missoula Montana — announcement: Hank tells viewers not to worry if too many people come to Chicago: 'we're going to figure something out. I promise.' — 00:02:36
  • 2008-08-04 (said on 2008-08-01, implied) · Breakdancing in Missoula Montana — announcement: Hank will play in a Wizard Rock show around 10 p.m. on August 8 at a Chicago club (heard as 'Reggie's Room'); tickets are linked in the sidebar. — 00:02:36
  • 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — announcement: Hank says this is the only New York video, since they are going to Chicago next, and he will see John in about three days. — 00:02:14
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — announcement: 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
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank played songs at a wizard rock concert in the park, with Lena, Leanne and Lauren and by himself. — 00:03:11
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank: At Chicago's Bean they took part in what Hank calls one of the largest collaborative movie projects ever. — 00:03:11
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank then played an electrified concert with fans screaming his lyrics, and danced all night to other wizard rock bands; the DJ played Don't Stop Believin'. — 00:03:11
  • 2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — Susan Carlson (quoted): The report says John was already a successful teen author whose fame skyrocketed through the internet, and that he was back in Chicago, where he once lived, promoting his books at the library. — 00:02:08
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — announcement: 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
  • 2010-10-04 · The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca — announcement: John: 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
  • 2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John: Embarrassed, overwhelmed by people and needing a new phone, John walked toward the Apple Store, first crossing to Grant Park, scene of his first wizard rock concert on 8/8/08. — 00:01:26
  • 2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John says that day he first found that other people knew the words to Hank's songs and began to understand how awesome Nerdfighters and Harry Potter fans are in real life. — 00:01:55
  • 2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John recalls that the Bean was where the first huge Nerdfighter gathering happened on 8/8/08 at 8:08 p.m., when Amy Krouse Rosenthal began The Beckoning of Lovely. — 00:02:25
  • 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John recalls August 8, 2008 as a big day: the brothers' first huge Nerdfighter gathering, helped by coinciding with a Harry Potter convention. — 00:01:25
  • 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John: That day John first met Rosianna, then a high school student and now his production partner in movie stuff. — 00:01:35
  • 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John: That evening Amy hosted The Beckoning of Lovely at the Bean in Millennium Park; what stuck with John most was singing an old soldiers' song to Auld Lang Syne with hundreds of people. — 00:01:40
  • 2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank: Adding to John's video, Hank recalls picking up 100 CDs of his music from Kinko's before Terminus: 'Songs from Hank Green's Pants Terminus Edition', mostly ripped from his YouTube videos. — 00:00:11
  • 2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank says the CDs were not a high-quality enterprise, but they sold every copy they did not give away. — 00:00:30
  • 2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank: Terminus was Hank's first Harry Potter convention and one of his first times playing music for people; he met people who are still dear friends. — 00:00:58