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New Office Tour!!

2023-05-05 · documentary visit · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Documentary visit

Hank, who has filmed for about eight years in front of his Narnia poster, admits mixed feelings before packing up his too-open office, then tours the finished redesign (drum cave, microscopy room, French cleat wall, a Crash Course coin prototype) and credits designer Emily Rayna and carpenter Jack Metcalf.

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 old office: the Narnia poster and bookshelf, the P4A background, the old Games with Hank set now used for microscopy

  • ★★ For about eight years Hank has made nearly every video sitting in front of his Narnia poster and his bookshelf. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ The wider room held the Project for Awesome background and the old Games with Hank set, which Hank no longer uses for that but now uses for microscopy. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, Games With Hank

00:00:29 — Before packing: the room feels too open; emotional about the change and worried a designed space will feel sterile

  • ★★ Hank has always felt the room is too open; he wants to work in a smaller space. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ About to box up his books, Hank feels a little emotional, since many amazing things happened in this space; he is a little worried about a constructed space rather than one that just happened, and though he does not think it will feel sterile, he does not want it to. — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — Tour of the redesigned office: corner desk, bins and shelves, drum cave, microscopy room, Crash Course coin prototype, French cleat wall

  • ★ Hank says the packing-up segment was recorded several weeks in advance so the redesign could happen. — 00:00:58
  • ★★★ What Hank loves most in the new office: from his little corner he can reach and see everything at once, with bins, desk space and walls of shelves; he calls it his dream. — 00:01:24
  • ★★ Near the entrance is a little drum cave where Hank and Orin can play the drums. — 00:01:24 · Orin Green
  • ★★ Inside a set of shelves is a little microscopy room, where Hank can also turn on a noise machine, turn off the lights and pretend nothing, himself included, exists. (playful) — 00:01:53
  • ★ The room has a place for Hank's Pizza John rug, and for the first time in his life he has more shelves than stuff to put on them. — 00:01:53 · Pizza John
  • ★★ On a set of shelves where everything is something he loves, Hank shows the prototype of this year's (2023) Crash Course coin, showing only its front because the rest is secret. — 00:02:23 · Crash Course coin
  • ★★ The map of the Realm of Narnia stays in the new office. — 00:02:52
  • ★★ Hank shows a French cleat wall: each piece lifts off and, with a cleat on the back, can be hung anywhere on the wall as a shelf. (playful) — 00:02:52
  • ★★★ Hank says everything, from carpet to floating shelf, was designed by interior decorator Emily Rayna, whom he cannot recommend enough for a weird project. — 00:02:52

00:03:21 — Credits to designer Emily Rayna and carpenter Jack Metcalf; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank first found Emily Rayna on TikTok and reached out to her over a year ago to start the project, which is now complete. (hedged) — 00:03:21 · TikTok
  • ★★ All the carpentry, installation and contracting was done by Jack Metcalf, whom Hank knew through local people in Missoula; Hank feels lucky to have found the pair. — 00:03:21 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank calls the office his little happy place: he will spruce it up over the next few weeks, but it could not have gone better. — 00:03:21

In the description and comments

  • ★★ In a comment Hank says the Narnia poster has been there since his very first videos, was referenced a lot in the first year, and has (almost) always stayed in his background since 2007. — creator comment
  • ★ In a comment Hank explains the echo: he usually records on a condenser mic but had not set it up yet. — creator comment

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Mentioned

Central: Emily Rayna

Also: People: Orin Green · Sydney Green

Projects: Games With Hank · Project for Awesome

Works: Crash Course coin · Map of the Realm of Narnia

Organizations: TikTok

Terms: Pizza John

Concepts: French cleat

Places: Missoula, Montana

Only in the description or credits: Jack Metcalf

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