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Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet)

2008-09-13 · letter vlog · Hank, Paige Harwood · 8:02 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Pop culture, Projects, Nerdfighteria, Books & writing) · mode: Personal update · tags: song or performance, guest or collab, civic or action cta, self promotion, community lore

Hank catches John up on EcoGeek, the end of his Planet Green segments and house hunting, disputes who talks faster, asks UK Nerdfighters to email a campaign for a UK Paper Towns edition, then shares a string-quartet Accio Deathly Hallows.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Why Hank has been absent: EcoGeek's workload after losing its employee

  • ★★ Hank says he has been absent mostly because of EcoGeek, which is doing very well. — 00:00:00 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ EcoGeek's one employee left for a bigger position, so Hank is doing all his old work again; he is hiring and may have found someone. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · EcoGeek

00:00:37 — Back to the old camera: Hank's Planet Green segments for Discovery end

  • ★ Hank says he is back to his old camera after about six months with another one. — 00:00:37
  • ★★ Hank recorded news segments for Discovery's new green channel Planet Green, sometimes a three-minute spot on clean technology, for which they sent him a new camera. — 00:00:37
  • ★★ Discovery asked for the camera back, so Hank concludes he will not keep doing the segments, although they told him not to assume anything. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:20

00:01:52 — Hank and Katherine look at buying a house

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine are thinking about buying a home and hope to get one house; he might show viewers around in a video tour. (hedged) — 00:01:52 · Katherine Green

00:02:29 — Who talks faster: Hank disputes John's BlogTV claim; Paper Towns not published in the UK

  • ★★ Hank rejects John's claim in a BlogTV chat that John talks faster, saying everyone would recognise that Hank talks faster. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:29 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says he is totally in favour of the discussed contest for who can talk faster on YouTube. (playful) — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Hank tells John that Paper Towns is not going to be published in the United Kingdom, which angers many UK Nerdfighters. — 00:02:29 · Paper Towns, United Kingdom, Nerdfighteria

00:03:01 — Email campaign asking UK publishers to publish Paper Towns

  • ★★★ Hank asks UK Nerdfighters only to email their name, age and location to a Gmail address, whose login he would give UK publishers to show demand. — 00:03:01 · Paper Towns, United Kingdom

00:03:30 — Paige Harwood's string-quartet arrangement of Accio Deathly Hallows, with the players' introductions

  • ★★ Hank thinks no publisher could refuse a big list of ready buyers and that UK Nerdfighters can get Paper Towns published in the UK quickly. (hedged) — 00:03:30 · Paper Towns, United Kingdom
  • ★★ Hank acknowledges the quartet will make the video too long but says it is okay because it is pretty much a separate video. (playful) — 00:03:30 · Four-minute rule
  • ★★ Hank shares a performance of Paige Harwood's arrangement of Accio Deathly Hallows for string quartet, calling it pretty awesome. — 00:03:30
  • ★ a guest: The players introduce themselves as current or former Berry College students playing violin, viola and cello. — 00:07:45

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Central: Accio Deathly Hallows · EcoGeek · Paige Harwood · Paper Towns · Planet Green

Also: Berry College · BlogTV · Discovery Communications · Four-minute rule · Gmail · Katherine Green · United Kingdom

Also centred on Accio Deathly Hallows: July 20: Green Mohawk · Re: July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song · I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall · Accio Decade Hallows

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