VidCon 2011 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2011-08-05)
The 2011 VidCon, officially launched by Hank with its website in January 2011, sold out by June, and John thanked Hank in August for organizing another amazing VidCon.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to register for VidCon 2011 at vidcon2011.com (2011)
Other editions: VidCon 2010 edition · VidCon 2012 edition · VidCon 2013 edition · VidCon 2014 edition · VidCon 2015 edition
Told alongside: VidCon 2012 edition
About: VidCon, Los Angeles, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-28 | announced | Hank officially launches VidCon 2011: vidcon2011.com is online; Los Angeles, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, July 28 industry day, July 29-30 community days. | Is Hank Green Batman? 00:02:52 |
| 2011-06-27 | milestone | Hank notes that VidCon 2011 is already sold out. | My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety 00:02:34 |
| 2011-07-11 | milestone | Hank notes that astronaut Mike Massimino is speaking at VidCon 2011 about social media and outer space. (playful, hedged) | Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle 00:02:26 |
| 2011-08-05 | outcome | John looks back on VidCon 2011, which Hank organized: the full hall, Meghan Tonjes, the quark sing-along, Driftless Pony Club and Watsky's crowd dive. | Vidcon: Thoughts from Places 00:00:03 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-01-28 · Is Hank Green Batman? — announcement: Hank: VidCon 2011 is in Los Angeles at the same hotel as last year (2010), the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza: July 28 (Thursday) is an industry day, July 29-30 community days. — 00:03:02
- 2011-06-27 · My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety — Hank: VidCon is the most stressful thing in Hank's life: assume 10,000 things with a 1% failure rate, and he sees only the failures while everyone else sees the 9,900 successes. (hedged) — 00:02:09
- 2011-06-27 · My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety — announcement: Hank: VidCon this year (2011) is already sold out, Hank notes, but next year (2012), 2012, VidCon will have a much bigger venue. — 00:02:34
- 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — John recalls standing on stage with Hank before the doors opened for VidCon 2011, unable to imagine the chairs full of people, and then they were. — 00:00:03
- 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — John says Meghan Tonjes performed on the VidCon main stage and he almost cried listening to her play on the couch. — 00:00:32
- 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — John says Driftless Pony Club, another band Hank and Alan signed to DFTBA Records, played; after ten years as a band, thousands sang their lyrics back to them for the first time. — 00:01:51
- 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — John says that at the end of one of his poems George Watsky dove headfirst into the VidCon crowd, which caught him. — 00:01:51