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Things That You Just Might Love

2017-05-12 · list · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Projects) · mode: Advice & reviews · tags: self promotion

Frustrated that attention and money consolidate, Hank turns his attention to fourteen channels, podcasts and creators he loves, then tells how he tracked down the Turkish street artist Kedicizdim, glimpsed in Kedi, whose cat designs DFTBA now sells, arguing that a connected global society lets more people create professionally.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Attention and money consolidate; Hank's own trap of promoting his projects; next week's Dear Hank and John

  • ★★★ Hank is frustrated that the more attention and money you have, the more you can get, so attention and money consolidate and things become less equal. — 00:00:00 · attention economy
  • ★★ Hank says he falls into this trap, tending to push his greater resources toward their own projects such as SciShow, Crash Course and Dear Hank and John. — 00:00:14 · SciShow, Crash Course, Dear Hank and John
  • ★ Hank says he will do that next week (week of 15 May 2017) for something he is excited about, explained in next week's (week of 15 May 2017) Dear Hank and John. — 00:00:23 · Dear Hank and John

00:00:28 — Fourteen underappreciated channels, podcasts and creators Hank loves

  • ★★ Hank says he will now turn some of the attention on him onto things he loves. — 00:00:28
  • ★★ Hank recommends The Brain Scoop: he loves it, Emily is amazing, and viewers who haven't lately should check it out. — 00:00:34 · The Brain Scoop
  • ★★ Hank recommends the Applied Science YouTube channel: photographing toothpaste with an electron microscope is almost as entertaining as its rubber-band-cooled refrigerator. — 00:00:39
  • ★★ Hank recommends Super Sam Stuff and many other good vloggers; finding someone like Sam excites him. — 00:00:52
  • ★★ Hank recommends the podcast Tanis as amazing, creepy, lovely and weird, saying more would spoil it. — 00:01:00
  • ★★ Hank recommends Criminal, his personal favourite among many great crime podcasts. — 00:01:07
  • ★★ Hank recommends Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This: she is smart and knowledgeable, and Hollywood history is fascinating and applicable to his life. — 00:01:11
  • ★★ Hank recommends Humanize Me, a podcast about secular community building and more, by a man formerly big in evangelical Christianity. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ Hank recommends Steven Suptic and the other former SourceFed hosts; Steven's content is weird, great and hilarious. — 00:01:32
  • ★★ Hank recommends Evelyn from the Internets: she makes him laugh, welcomes him into her content and gives him a different perspective. — 00:01:40
  • ★★ Hank recommends Xidnaf: linguistics and stick figures. — 00:01:47
  • ★★ Hank recommends Lindsay Ellis: she makes him laugh, has a strong community and always has great takes on culture. — 00:01:50
  • ★★ Hank recommends one video, titled roughly 'How Does Do Science', as the best possible video on how science works. — 00:02:00
  • ★★ Hank recommends Miles Chronicles as hilarious, warning viewers not to drink anything while watching or they will spray and choke. (playful) — 00:02:09
  • ★★ Hank closes the list with 'the great' Gunnarolla, without whom no list of underappreciated media would be complete. — 00:02:20

00:02:27 — We will miss most of the world's great creation

  • ★★★ Hank says there is so much great creation that we will definitionally miss most of it, in languages, cultures and places we will never know. — 00:02:27
  • ★★★ Hank says that the first time he watched Kedi he glimpsed a piece of cat street art in the background. — 00:02:38

00:02:41 — Hank's search for the Turkish street artist seen in Kedi, and the email that found him

  • ★★ The image struck Hank so hard he wanted to put the cat on a shirt and sell it so the artist would be paid where he never expected. — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Hank asked on social media for help, tried about 30 ways, got within one degree of separation four or five times, then gave up, bummed. — 00:02:58
  • ★★★ A couple of weeks ago Hank got an email whose subject line, with an empty body, read 'I am Turkish street artist Kedicizdim'. — 00:03:14

00:03:24 — Kedicizdim shirts and pin on DFTBA.com; global connection lets more people create; links and sign-off

  • ★★★ DFTBA.com now sells Kedicizdim's products: a week-long pre-order of two shirt designs in unisex or women's cut and a lapel pin of the original cat. — 00:03:24 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★★ Hank loves that a newly connected, more global society lets us see more cool creations and lets more people create professionally, and thinks we should take advantage of it. (hedged) — 00:03:35
  • ★★ Hank points to description links for everything he mentioned and hopes viewers check them out and love them too. (hedged) — 00:03:49

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Mentioned

Central: Kedicizdim

Also: People: Emily Graslie · Evelyn from the Internets · Gunnarolla · Lindsay Ellis · Steven Suptic · Xidnaf

Projects: Crash Course · Dear Hank and John · DFTBA Records · SciShow · The Brain Scoop

Works: Applied Science · Criminal (podcast) · How Does Do Science (video, title unclear) · Humanize Me · Kedi · Miles Chronicles · Super Sam Stuff · Tanis (podcast) · You Must Remember This (podcast)

Organizations: SourceFed

Concepts: globalization · Matthew effect · street art

Places: Hollywood

Only in the description or credits: Karina Longworth

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