Paper Towns collab album: free album for proving dedication to Paper Towns (2008)
project history · status: last documented in 2008 · last event: milestone (2008-10-21) · last mentioned: 2008-11-05
In October 2008 Hank launched a free Paper Towns collaborative album for Nerdfighters who showed their dedication to the book with profile pictures, notes left in bookstore copies, comments and emails. Within days the album was ready and hundreds of people were eligible for it.
About: Paper Towns collab album, Paper Towns
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) | launched | Hank launches the free Paper Towns collaborative album, available to viewers who post profile pictures with the book, leave notes in bookstore copies, and comment and email; a CD costs $3. | Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! 00:00:34 |
| 2008-10-21 | milestone | Hank reports the Paper Towns collab album is ready and hundreds are eligible; the digital version will go online soon and eligible participants will be emailed. | Lonesome Cloud 00:02:17 |
| 2008-11-05 | looked back | John opens with 20 seconds of Hank singing in front of many Nerdfighters in Louisville, a song only available on the Paper Towns secret collaboration album. | On Loving One Another or Dying 00:00:00 |
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
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — announcement: Hank and several nerdfighters have recorded Paper Towns songs for a Paper Towns collaborative album, which they are giving away for free. — 00:00:34
- 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: First condition for the album: make a picture of yourself with Paper Towns your MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and every other profile picture. — 00:00:58
- 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: Second: buy Paper Towns at a local bookstore and leave notes in copies saying how much you love it, like a blurb but from a normal reader rather than a reviewer. — 00:01:27
- 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: Third: comment on the video and send an email saying you have done all of this, to get download access to the album. — 00:01:27
- 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — announcement: Hank: Those who qualify can also pay $3, the cost of making and shipping the CD, for a hard copy. — 00:01:56
- 2008-10-21 · Lonesome Cloud — announcement: Hank: Many people are now eligible for the Paper Towns collab album; the album is ready, the digital version goes online soon and everyone eligible will be emailed. — 00:02:17
- 2008-10-21 · Lonesome Cloud — Hank expected 50 or 60 people in total to take part but it has been about 50 or 60 a day, hundreds overall; he thanks them and asks them to continue. — 00:02:17