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IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!!

2011-05-05 · letter vlog · John, Henry Green · 2:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, punishment or challenge, guest or collab

On Hanko de Mayo John delivers Nerdfighteria's birthday greetings to Hank, offers his skipped Wednesday video as a punishment gift, and argues Hank's 30th year was a very good one, listing his projects and thanking him.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Henry says hi; greeting: Hank is 31, it's Hanko de Mayo

  • ★★ It is Thursday, May 5, 2011, Hanko de Mayo: Hank is 31. — 00:00:08 · Hank Green

00:00:13 — Birthday logistics: video responses, Henry says 'Hank', a box of mailed greetings, the dollar challenge, belated cards

  • ★★ The video responses below hold many birthday wishes for Hank from Nerdfighteria, which John will tweet and reblog all day. — 00:00:13 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ For Hank's birthday John has taught Henry Hank's name; Henry then says 'Hank!'. — 00:00:17 · Henry Green, Hank Green
  • ★★ Hank receives today a large box of birthday greetings from Nerdfighters around the world, mailed to an Ohio P.O. box run by Valerie2776. — 00:00:23 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Some cards contain a dollar or two; John and Nerdfighters challenge Hank to pool the money and spend it in the way that, in his opinion, most increases awesome. — 00:00:38 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Nerdfighters who still want to can mail Hank a belated birthday card to the P.O. box in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:48 · doobly-doo, Nerdfighteria

00:00:54 — John skipped Wednesday as a gift: Hank may punish him; Nerdfighters suggest punishments

  • ★★★ John chose not to upload a video on Wednesday, reasoning that the best gift for his brother is the chance to make him do something humiliating, embarrassing or unpalatable. (playful) — 00:00:54 · Punishment, Hank Green
  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighters to leave punishment suggestions in the comments. — 00:01:02 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment
  • ★★ In a playful aside, John asks Hank, when choosing a punishment, to think not of the brother who (he jokes) tried to poison him with iodine as an infant or stole from his piggy bank, but of the brother he has made YouTube videos with for years. (playful) — 00:01:11 · Hank Green, Punishment

00:01:24 — Tribute to Hank's 30th year: EcoGeek, DFTBA Records, VidCon, 2D glasses, P4A 2010, songs, videos and more; thanks

  • ★★ Since turning 30, John says, Hank kept publishing EcoGeek.org, 'the best environmental technology website', and fostered young musicians from Chameleon Circuit to Mike Lombardo through DFTBA Records. — 00:01:24 · EcoGeek, DFTBA Records
  • ★★ In the last year Hank organized and ran VidCon, which John calls the largest online video conference in the world. — 00:01:34 · VidCon
  • ★★ Frustrated with ever more three-dimensional screens, John says playfully, Hank invented 2D glasses. (playful) — 00:01:38
  • ★★ Hank oversaw the 2010 Project for Awesome, which John says raised more than $150,000 for charity. — 00:01:46 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank wrote songs about making babies, Phineas Gage and 'the fundamental constituent of matter observed in 1968 through deep electric scatter', John says. — 00:01:51
  • ★★ In the last year Hank made more than 100 videos that Nerdfighters watched more than ten million times. — 00:02:00 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Hank inspired Nerdfighters to support building a well by traveling to Haiti with Water.org, John says. — 00:02:03 · Savann Tabak well
  • ★★ Hank also created Your Pants more or less overnight, built Phototrometon and the HankGames channel, ran Truth or Fail, gave blood twice and beat Portal 2 two days ago. — 00:02:07 · HankGames
  • ★★ Hank would say none of this could be done without Nerdfighteria, which is true, but John says Nerdfighteria needs Hank just as he needs them, and thanks him. — 00:02:17 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:27 — Can't wait to see what Hank does with 31; sign-off 'see you tomorrow'

  • ★★ Borrowing a line he took from his wife for his first novel, that imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia, John says he can't wait to see what Hank does with 31. — 00:02:27 · Sarah Urist Green, Looking for Alaska (novel)

    “imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia”

  • ★ John signs off 'I will see you tomorrow', remarking that he hasn't been able to say that in a long time. (playful) — 00:02:34

In the description and comments

  • ★ The description gives the P.O. box for belated birthday greetings (no money) and invites birthday videos as video responses. — video description
  • ★ The description announces that Hank and John just got Tumblrs and gives both addresses. — video description · Tumblr

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Mentioned

Central: Hanko de Mayo · Punishment

Also: People: Henry Green · Mike Lombardo

Projects: DFTBA Records · EcoGeek · HankGames · Photomatron · Project for Awesome · Savann Tabak well · Truth or Fail · VidCon · Your Pants

Works: 2D Glasses · Looking for Alaska (novel) · Phineas Gage (song) · Portal 2 · Strange Charm

Organizations: Water.org

Groups: Chameleon Circuit

Terms: doobly-doo

Concepts: nostalgia

Places: Haiti

Only in the description or credits: Sarah Urist Green · Tumblr · Valerie2776

Also centred on Hanko de Mayo: Important (Temporary) Video · The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! · Meeting Greg Mortenson · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!!

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