Hank Green

Hank Green at VidCon 2014

William Henry "Hank" Green (born May 5, 1980 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is an American video blogger , entrepreneur, musician, podcaster and author.

Life

Hank Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama , but his family moved early to Orlando, Florida , where he grew up. After graduating from Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Florida , he earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg and a master's degree in environmental science from the University of Montana in Missoula , where he currently lives with his wife Katherine Green. They married in September 2006 and their son Orin Green was born at the end of October 2016.

activities

Together with his brother, the youth author John Green , he has been running the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers since January 2007 . The project started on January 1st, 2007 under the name Brotherhood 2.0 . The Green brothers wanted to try to communicate using only daily video messages for a year. The number of viewers increased over the course of the year. By September 4, 2015, they had uploaded 1,395 videos on this channel. With over 2.6 million subscribers, they are among the most successful vlogs ( video blogs ) and the 400 most popular channels on YouTube. Your videos have been viewed more than 550 million times and some have over 16 million clicks.

At the end of 2007, the first Project for Awesome took place, in which fans upload videos about non-profit organizations in a short period of time in order to attract the attention of YouTube visitors. Since then, this project has taken place annually and is supported by YouTube. In 2012 they toured 17 American cities on the occasion of the publication of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars , most of the stations were sold out.

Since 2012, Hank and John Green have also been producing weekly videos for the Crash Course channel, which was initially funded by Google . Hank Green presents various series of classes on chemistry, US government and politics, astronomy, economics, anatomy and physiology, intellectual property, great history, psychology, literature, world history, ecology and US history. Another one on biology has already been completed. The channel has (as of August 2015) 3.2 million subscribers and each new video generates around 60,000 to 260,000 views. On the SciShow channel , which was launched at the same time and also supported by Google, Green also provides entertaining information on current scientific topics. This channel has (as of March 2018) 4.8 million subscribers. There are now spin-offs for children, Crash Course Kids and SciShow Kids from both channels .

Green is also the initiator and organizer of VidCon , the world's largest YouTube conference with over 2500 participants (2011), which has been held annually since 2010. After two years in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles , the 2012 conference moved to Anaheim in the local convention center to meet the increasing number of participants to take into account.

From 2005 on, Green ran the online blog ecogeek.org , which he ran full-time for a while. EcoGeek was one of the largest blogs for environmental topics and technology; it was reported by Time magazine . Green subsequently wrote for the New York Times and Scientific American magazine, among others . Green continues to run EcoGeek, but is no longer a writer.

Hank Green's debut novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing was published on September 25, 2018. It is about a young woman who becomes an internet sensation through a discovery. The novel made it onto the New York Times bestseller list. The German first edition in the translation by Katarina Ganslandt was published in 2019 under the title A really amazing thing by bold , an imprint of the dtv publishing company .

The sequel to the two-part series was released on July 7, 2020 under the title A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor and was # 4 on the New York Times bestseller list on July 16. A German translation is still pending.

Green has also produced or is involved in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries , The Brain Scoop , Animal Wonders , SciShow Space , Cereal Time , How to Adult , Healthcare Triage and Sexplanations .

music

During the Brotherhood 2.0 project in 2007, Green accepted the challenge of doing a biweekly self-written song (known as Song Wednesdays ) and has since been releasing his own songs, though not as often. His first successful song and also his breakthrough is Accio Deathly Hallows , which was on YouTubes homepage before the original publication of the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (original title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ) on July 21, 2007 and was more than 1 , Has been viewed 8 million times. Since then, Hank Green has released a Harry Potter themed song on the same date each year. With these and other songs, Hank Green made a name for himself in the wizard rock scene and is now a fixture there. He appeared several times at LeakyCon (now GeekyCon ), the largest Harry Potter fair in the world.

Hank Green's first studio album, So Jokes , was released in 2008 and reached number 22 on Billboard's Top 25 revenue generating albums online . He later released the albums I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009), This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) and Ellen Hardcastle (2011). Together with his band Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers , Green released Incongruent on May 17, 2014 .

In 2008 Green founded the music label DFTBA Records together with Alan Lastufka . It focuses on numerous artists and bands who have become known through the video platform YouTube, for example Alex Day , Charlie McDonnell , Chameleon Circuit , Dave Days and Rhett & Link are under contract. DFTBA is an acronym and stands for Don't Forget to Be Awesome . Green is also active as a musician himself and sells his studio albums there. The label's goal is to be a distribution opportunity for YouTube artists and to ensure that their music reaches the largest possible audience, explained Lastufka in a video on the subject. In addition to music albums, the official website also sells merchandise such as t-shirts, posters and other accessories. On June 19, 2014, Lastufka announced that he had sold all of his stake in the company and that he had resigned as president to pursue other projects.

Discography

Studio albums

• 2008: So Jokes ( DFTBA Records )
• 2009: This Machine Pwns n00bs (DFTBA)
• 2011: Ellen Hardcastle (DFTBA)
• 2014: Incongruent (with "The Perfect Strangers") (DFTBA)

Live albums

• 2009: I'm So Bad at This: Live! (DFTBA)
• 2012: Tour de Nerdfighting

EPs

• 2013: Thinking About Christmas Songs (from Project for Awesome 2013)

Appears on

• 2008: Wrock for Darfur
• 2009: DFTBA Records, Volume One
• 2010: C4N'7 R3M1X35
• 2010: DFTBA Records, Volume Two
• 2012: DFTBA Records, Volume Three

Web links

Commons : Hank Green  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Hank Green in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website
• Vlogbrothers on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdL6E17TclA#t=2m30s
2. ↑ Hank Green's profile on Myspace
3. ↑ ^{a b} National Public Radio : Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging Published January 20, 2008. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CcaceAkFI
5. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/dearhankandjohn/056-is-it-going-to-throw-up
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/793151714631135232
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Project4Awesome: About. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
9. ↑ Susan Carpenter: John Green's adds to his fan base with 'The Fault in Our Stars' Published in the Los Angeles Times on January 21, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
10. ↑ Justin Pot: Crash Course: Entertaining YouTube Courses On History & Biology Published April 7, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
11. ↑ fractuslearning: Meet Two Brothers Who Bring Biology And History To Life . Retrieved May 5, 2012
12. ↑ Janko Roettgers : Cool for school: Education is a big hit on YouTube ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published February 1, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012. 
13. ↑ Bart Leib: Scishow & Crash Course: Why Isn't School This Cool? Published on Wired .com on March 23, 2012. Accessed May 5 2012th
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids
15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
16. ↑ Alex Pham: Vidcon conference celebrates YouTube culture Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
17. ↑ Andrew Wallenstein: VidCon revels on YouTube. Published August 1, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
18. ↑ Liz Shannon Miller: At VidCon, YouTube's evolution Becomes clear Published on Reuters .com on July 31, 2011. Retrieved on May 3, 2012 found.
19. ↑ vidcon.com: About. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
20. ↑ Eric Roston: EcoGeek Published April 17, 2008 in Time . Retrieved May 5, 2012.
21. ↑ Hank Green: Notes on a Sick Planet.Published in the New York Times on October 14, 2007. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
22. ↑ hankgreen.com: ECOGEEK ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 5, 2012. 
23. ^ New York Times: YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year. September 19, 2017, archived from the original ; accessed on September 12, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Best Sellers - October 14, 2018 - The New York Times . In: The New York Times . ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 3, 2019]).
25. ↑ Elizabeth E. Heilman: Critical perspectives on Harry Potter . Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-96484-5 .
26. ↑ Hank Green: July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) . In: VlogBrothers . YouTube. July 18, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
27. ↑ http://www.mugglenet.com/muggle-world/wizard-rock/
28. ↑ TuneCore May TuneCore charts (Covering February 2009 sales) . Shore Fire Media . May 5, 2009. Archived from the original on August 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2014. 
29. ↑ Hank Green: Incongruent . April 16, 2014. Archived from the original on June 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2014. 
30. ↑ Joe Cirilo: Hank Green And The Perfect Strangers Incongruent . The Aquarian . July 1, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
31. ↑ DFTBA - The DFTBA Team. In: store.dftba.com. Retrieved February 6, 2016 . 
32. ^ DFTBA - Hank Green. In: store.dftba.com. Retrieved February 6, 2016 . 
33. ↑ 187: Books, DFTBA Records and Holidays . YouTube . November 24, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
34. ↑ Alan Lastufka: This morning I sold my stake in Entire DFTBA Records. . Tumblr . June 18, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2014.