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The Museum of Pizza Johns Past

2016-11-10 · announcement · Dave, Caenaan, Rachel, Meg, Valerie2776 · 3:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Documentary visit · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, guest or collab, community lore, fundraising ask, on location

For Pizzamas 2016, the DFTBA warehouse staff introduce themselves and Pizza John designer Valerie, tour a 'museum' of every Pizza John design since 2010, and present this year's collection: shirts by guest designers, PJ-PJ pajamas, the personal pizza box, a charity pet leash and the Awesome Sox Club.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Dave introduces the DFTBA staff and the forklift Forky McForkface

  • ★ Dave, DFTBA's operations manager, introduces the staff: Caenaan the warehouse manager, Rachel the head of creator support and Meg the head of customer service. — 00:00:01 · DFTBA Records
  • ★ Caenaan says the warehouse forklift is, of course, named Forky McForkface. (playful) — 00:00:10

00:00:25 — Valerie, the designer of Pizza John, and a tour of the Pizzamas museum of past Pizza John designs, 2010 to 2015

  • ★★★ Dave introduces Valerie, who lives in Missoula and works for VidCon, as the designer of Pizza John, which led to Pizzamas: her lasting legacy. — 00:00:35 · Missoula, Montana, VidCon, Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★★ Valerie2776: Valerie gives the ten-second history of Pizza John: John likes pizza, once had a mustache in a video, and all of this followed. (playful) — 00:01:00 · John Green, Pizza John
  • ★★ Valerie2776: The staff tour Pizza John designs by year: the 2010 original; 2012 green, neon nineties, eyes, vampire and evil; a 2013 hoodie; 2014 Bowie, glowy, halftone, Obey; 2015 Warhol, rainbow, blue neon, Pisa, Misfits, faux-knitted and nebula. — 00:01:18 · Pizza John
  • ★ Meg notes that the 2015 Rainbow Pizza John was their first charity shirt. — 00:01:40 · Pizza John

00:01:50 — The 2016 Pizzamas collection: guest designers' shirts, the PJ-PJ, the personal pizza box, the charity pet leash and the Awesome Sox Club

  • ★★★ Valerie2776: Valerie says that this year (2016), as Hank said, they asked their favourite designers to design Pizza John shirts. — 00:01:50 · Hank Green, Pizza John
  • ★★ Rachel lists this year's (2016) designers: Judy Kaufmann, Sara Cervantes, Julia Pott, Rachel herself, TEKST (Big John Pizzeria), Ming Doyle (an indigo design) and the design duo Rude. — 00:01:56
  • ★ Rachel models the collection's very soft pajama pants, called the PJ-PJ. (playful) — 00:02:23 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Rachel says the personal pizza Pizzamas box holds box-only items: a hot and fresh shirt and notepad, a Pizza John pizza cutter with bottle opener and an apron with gold imprints. — 00:02:31 · Pizzamas, Pizza John
  • ★★★ Rachel says that, as last year (2015), one item gives its proceeds to charity: 100% of profits from the Pizza John pet leash go to the Animal Legal Defense Fund. — 00:02:52 · Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★★ Dave shows the November sock, designed by Rachel and sold only through the DFTBA Awesome Sox Club, and asks viewers to buy one of the 500 remaining subscriptions soon. — 00:03:13 · Awesome Socks Club, DFTBA Records

00:03:33 — Thanks for the tour; Forky McForkface's sign-off

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Mentioned

Central: DFTBA Records · Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: People: Andy Warhol · Caenaan · Dave (staff, mentioned from 2014) · David Bowie · Meg (staff, mentioned from 2016) · Rachel · Valerie2776

Projects: Awesome Socks Club · VidCon

Organizations: Animal Legal Defense Fund

Places: Missoula, Montana · Pisa (“Pisa John”)

Only in the description or credits: Judy Kaufmann · Julia Pott · Ming Doyle · Rude · Sam Schultz · Sara Cervantes · TEKST

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