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Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC

2010-12-10 · announcement · Hank · 3:42 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, civic or action cta, community lore, on location, recurring series

Hank explains how the 2010 Project for Awesome will run almost entirely on YouTube (subscribe to youtube.com/p4a; thumbnails, titles and tags; upload on December 17), then gives a comic Thoughts from Places tour of Washington, D.C., where he spoke on a YouTube panel about P4A.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — P4A 2010 will be almost exclusively on YouTube: subscribe to youtube.com/p4a; thumbnails, title and tags; upload on December 17; featuring on the 17th and 18th

  • ★★★ Hank announces that the Project for Awesome is coming fast and this year (2010) will be a bit different, taking place almost exclusively on YouTube. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank tells anyone who wants to participate at all, even just tuning in, to subscribe to youtube.com/p4a right now, calling it extremely important to P4A's success. — 00:00:08 · Project for Awesome, YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank tells video makers to get the P4A thumbnail from 'the links in my pants' (the description); only YouTube partners can change thumbnails, so others should put 'Project for Awesome' or 'P4A' in title and tags. — 00:00:31 · Project for Awesome, YouTube, in your pants
  • ★★★ Hank says P4A videos must be uploaded 'midnight-ish' on December 17; through the 17th and 18th the P4A crew, including the brothers, will feature them on ProjectForAwesome.com, the mailing list, YouTube's front page and youtube.com/p4a. — 00:00:47 · Project for Awesome, YouTube

00:01:09 — Thoughts from Places, Washington, D.C.: garbage trucks, tiny fancy hotel room, Star Trek showerhead, hinged mirror, curtains

  • ★★ Hank says he was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and when the brothers go places they do Thoughts from Places. — 00:01:09 · Thoughts from Places
  • ★ Hank recounts being woken repeatedly by garbage trucks, joking D.C. must have the most trash of any city, then a showerhead like a Star Trek TNG defense system and a hinged mirror. (playful) — 00:01:13

00:02:14 — Mock tour of invented D.C. monuments and the squirrel ambassador

  • ★ Hank gives a mock tour of invented D.C. monuments and meets a 'squirrel ambassador' who apologizes for the crimes of Scuzzy Kizoozle. (joke) — 00:02:14

00:03:00 — Seriously, D.C. is amazing; YouTube's policy-and-politics event and Hank's panel on using YouTube for good, where he talked about P4A

  • ★★ Hank says that, seriously, Washington, D.C. is an amazing place where you feel the power of the nation's past more viscerally. — 00:03:00
  • ★★ Hank was in D.C. for a YouTube event for policy and politics people, on a panel about using YouTube for good where he talked about P4A; it was fun but too short. — 00:03:04 · YouTube, Project for Awesome

00:03:24 — Sign-off and end screen: subscribe to youtube.com/p4a and to email updates

  • ★★ On the end screen Hank again urges viewers to subscribe to youtube.com/p4a now, and suggests also subscribing to P4A email updates. — 00:03:25 · Project for Awesome, YouTube

Humor (significant)

  • Hank stresses how important it is to subscribe to youtube.com/p4a right now. — 00:00:23

    “However many views this video gets, that is how many people I expect to be subscribed to Youtube.com/p4a! People, this is for charity!”

  • On his D.C. walk Hank points out monuments of 'monumental people'. — 00:02:23

    “the giant temple to Pescandruscus, the Zoroastrian god of penetration”

  • Hank runs into Quizzuckle Couleasy Flip, the squirrel ambassador to the United States. — 00:02:38

    “he apologized for the crimes of Scuzzy Kazoozle”

  • After chatting with the squirrel ambassador, Hank offers a little-known fact. — 00:02:53

    “the squirrels will only approach humans for two things: food and to be on Youtube”

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome · Washington, DC

Also: in your pants · Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl · SimplyNoise · Star Trek: The Next Generation · Thoughts from Places · YouTube · YouTube Partner Program

Also centred on Washington, DC: Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C.

Later videos replying to this one

  • 2010-12-13 · 8 Things I Love (John) — corrects (rule-change on P4A 2010 edition) — John corrects the P4A 2010 start time Hank gave: it begins at noon Eastern on December 17, so videos should be uploaded as close to noon as possible. (00:00:02)

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2010-12-10 – 2010-12-15.