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Tetris Day!

2008-06-02 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

Hank declares Tetris Day and asks Nerdfighters to help make a music video for Bill Martin's (Dr. Noise's) hardcore cover of Hank's Tetris song: build paper Tetris pieces, film themselves playing and being hit by them, lip-sync assigned verses, and send clips by June 14.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank in a new spot in the room; Tetris Day; a birthday present from a viewer; the project has been running by email

  • ★★ Hank declares Tetris Day: a Tetris-related project viewers will do together, already running by email; material sent in will be used, but much more is needed. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank shows a birthday present and thanks the person who gave it, whom he names on air. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Bill Martin (Dr. Noise) covered Hank's Tetris song; the plan for a Nerdfightastic music video; how to build and film the Tetris pieces

  • ★★ Hank recalls writing a Tetris song, 'The Man Who Threw the Tetris Piece', on acoustic guitar; nerdfighter Bill Martin (Dr. Noise) covered it hardcore, and the cover plays under this video. — 00:00:29 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Hank and Bill have decided to make a Nerdfightastic music video for Bill's version of the Tetris song, and need viewers' help. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to build Tetris pieces at home (four squares of about eight inches each) and film themselves pretending to play Tetris as the pieces pop out of the TV; fast and creative beats perfect. — 00:00:29 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ Hank lists the tools needed (scissors, knife, tape, video camera, tape measure, straight edge, coloured construction paper, Sharpie) and tells young viewers to get parental permission for the knife and cut away from themselves. (playful) — 00:01:22

00:02:10 — Where to send clips, the June 14 deadline, lip-syncing verses by formula; thanks to Bill and Russia; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to send finished Tetris videos to Dr. Noise's Gmail address; the submission deadline is June 14. — 00:02:10
  • ★★ Participants can also lip-sync: rather than memorising the whole song, a mathematical formula in the sidebar, with the lyrics, assigns each person a verse to sing while playing or dancing. — 00:02:10
  • ★★ Hank thanks Russia for Tetris and notes the Tetris song is a folk melody and so not protected under US copyright. (playful) — 00:02:57 · copyright

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