How It Felt

2012-01-31 · letter vlog · John · 3:07 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, guest or collab, song or performance, community lore

As the three-week 2012 Tour de Nerdfighting ends, John says it was like the internet made real, but it also went by too fast to really experience, so he records for their future selves what it was like and how it felt.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — The tour ends: like the internet became IRL, but too fast to experience; they hardly remember the 2008 tour

• ★★ John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. — 00:00:01 · Tour de Nerdfighting
• ★★★ John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. — 00:00:01
• ★★★ Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. — 00:00:30 · Tumblr
• ★★ John, Hank and Katherine talked yesterday (30 January 2012) about how they hardly remember the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting, what it was like or how it felt. — 00:00:30 · Katherine Green, Tour de Nerdfighting

00:00:51 — 'For future us': montage of the tour with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'; 'Thank you for watching!'

• ★★★ John tells Hank the video is for their future selves: this is what the tour was like and how it felt; a montage follows with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'. — 00:00:51

In the description and comments

• ★ John's description thanks everyone who came to the tour, the independent bookstores and theaters that hosted it, and the Nerdfighter who held the camera. — video description

Threads in this video

• milestone · Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition — John says the 2012 Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks, with a signing in Seattle last night. (00:00:01)
• looked back · Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition — John looks back on the tour as the internet made real and records a montage for their future selves of what it was like and how it felt. (00:00:51)
• looked back · Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 edition — John says he, Hank and Katherine hardly remember the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting or how it felt. (00:00:30)
• refine · Is the internet, including social media, good for people? — John says a problem with the internet is that things go by so fast it's hard to really experience them, like scrolling Tumblr. (00:00:30)
• kept · John: the brothers will do another Tour de Nerdfighting (2009) — John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. (00:00:01)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• John: the brothers will do another Tour de Nerdfighting (2009) — kept
• Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition — completed; last: looked back, 2024-11-13

Mentioned

Central: Tour de Nerdfighting

Also: Doctor Who · I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) · Katherine Green · Seattle · Sherlock · Strange Charm · Tumblr

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