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Eight Days of Awesome

2008-08-12 · letter vlog · Hank, John · 4:39 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, guest or collab, punishment or challenge, community lore, self promotion

Hank recounts eight consecutive days of awesome — a studio recording, raspberry picking, New York, a Barnes & Noble flash mob, the Chicago 8/8/08 gatherings with John — asks buyers whose CD orders he lost to email him, and challenges John to discuss Georgia while wearing a peanut butter face.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Good and bad news: bare feet to balance the awesome; the longest sequence of awesome days since mankind was invented

  • ★★★ Hank says the past days have possibly been the longest sequence of awesome days in a row since mankind was invented. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00

00:00:40 — Days 1-4: studio recording of Accio Deathly Hallows, raspberry picking for jam, Scientific American editor admires EcoGeek, Barnes & Noble flash mob

  • ★★ Hank says eight days earlier he was in the studio recording an actual studio version of Accio Deathly Hallows, to be discussed later. — 00:00:40
  • ★ Hank picked raspberries at a beautiful place so that he and Katherine could make raspberry jam. — 00:00:40 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ In New York City Hank met the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, who said he admires EcoGeek; Hank says it felt like being king of nerddom for a day. — 00:00:40 · New York City, EcoGeek
  • ★★★ The next day (6 August 2008) Hank and about 50 Nerdfighters flash-mobbed a Barnes & Noble store after a short announcement, then hung out across the street. — 00:01:09 · Barnes & Noble, Nerdfighteria

00:01:39 — Phone call to John from the flash mob; dinner with Maureen Johnson; meeting John in Chicago

00:02:13 — 8/8/08 in Chicago: talk at Google, library event with 380+ Nerdfighters, wizard rock in the park, The Bean, electrified concert, dancing

  • ★★★ Hank and John gave a talk at Google's Chicago headquarters about YouTube, online video and online communities. — 00:02:13 · Google, YouTube, Chicago (city)
  • ★★★ Hank says over 380 Nerdfighters came to the Chicago library event, including many prominent Nerdfighters he had never seen outside YouTube. — 00:02:42 · Nerdfighteria, Chicago (city), YouTube
  • ★★ Hank played songs at a wizard rock concert in the park, with Lena, Leanne and Lauren and by himself. — 00:03:11
  • ★★ At Chicago's Bean they took part in what Hank calls one of the largest collaborative movie projects ever. — 00:03:11 · Chicago (city)
  • ★★ 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

00:03:39 — The un-awesome thing: lost CD order slips; buyers asked to email Hank

  • ★★★ Hank says the one un-awesome thing: he and LeAnne took orders for CDs sold out at Terminus, but the slips with buyers' addresses fell out of his pocket while he danced. — 00:03:39
  • ★★★ Hank asks anyone who bought one of those CDs from LeAnne to email him immediately. — 00:03:39

00:04:09 — Back in Montana: friends' wedding, Western Montana Fair; challenge to John (Georgia with a peanut butter face); over-four-minutes admission; subscribe

  • ★★ Back in Montana, Hank saw two great friends married, then went to the last day of the Western Montana Fair: goats, llamas, corn dogs and a demolition derby. — 00:03:39 · Montana
  • ★★★ Hank tells John the only way to continue the awesome is to discuss the political situation in Georgia while giving himself a Ze Frank peanut butter mask. (playful) — 00:04:09 · John Green, Peanut Butter Face
  • ★★ Hank admits the video is longer than four minutes and says he will accept whatever punishment John sees fit. — 00:04:09 · Four-minute rule, Punishment
  • ★ Hank tells viewers who want to see John in a peanut butter mask to subscribe. (playful) — 00:04:09 · Peanut Butter Face

Humor (significant)

  • Hank claims this was the longest run of awesome days since the invention of mankind. — 00:00:00

    “since mankind was invented by Zathura from the planet Zorkos.”

  • Hank describes picking raspberries to make jam. — 00:00:40

    “It's like... taking candy from a bush.”

  • After the talk at Google's Chicago headquarters, Hank explains why talking to Google about online communities matters. — 00:02:13

    “they own all of everything outside of... this box, they own it.”

  • Hank ends by pitching John's peanut-butter challenge to viewers. — 00:04:09

    “If you want to see John in a peanut butter mask, you'd better subscribe.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Chicago (city)

Also: People: Adam · Katherine Green · Liane Graham · Maureen Johnson · Rosianna Halse Rojas

Projects: EcoGeek

Works: Accio Deathly Hallows · Don't Stop Believin'

Organizations: Barnes & Noble · Google · Scientific American · YouTube

Groups: Five Awesome Girls · Short sisters · The Butterbeer Experience · The Parselmouths

Rituals: Four-minute rule · Punishment

Terms: Peanut Butter Face

Concepts: Wizard rock

Places: Cloud Gate · Georgia (country) · Montana · New York City

Events: Terminus · Western Montana Fair

Only in the description or credits: Ze Frank

Later videos replying to this one

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2008-08-12 – 2008-08-15.