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==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|http://hankgreen.com/}}
*{{official website|http://hankgreen.com/}}
*[http://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Youtube - Vlogbrothers' channel.]

;Projects
*[http://www.brotherhood2.com/index.php Brotherhood 2.0 Project]
*[http://ecogeek.org/ EcoGeek]
*[http://www.nerdfighters.com/ Nerdfighters]
*[http://projectforawesome.com/ Project for Awesome]
*[http://vidcon.com/ Vidcon]


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Not to be confused with William Henry Green.
Hank Green
Born
William Henry Green II

(1980-05-05) May 5, 1980 (age 44)
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forBlogging, vlogging, green technology, singing
Notable workVidcon, Vlogbrothers, Brotherhood 2.0, EcoGeek.org, Project for Awesome, 2D Glasses, ReadIt1st.com, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Nerdfighters
SpouseKatherine Green
RelativesJohn Green (brother)
Websitehankgreen.comwww.ecogeek.org

William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980, in Birmingham, Alabama[1]) is a professional entertainer and entrepreneur. He is best known for his video blogs with his brother, John Green on YouTube under the channel name Vlogbrothers.[2] Hank also has a secondary channel that he calls 'HanksChannel', and a gaming channel called HankGames. Green is heavily involved in educational online video projects, including CrashCourse (again, co-run with his brother), wherein he teaches Biology and Ecology, and John teaches World History and Literature; and SciShow, which delivers basic and more complex scientific concepts at a level that is easy to comprehend.

Personal life

Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but his family soon moved to Orlando, Florida, where he was raised.[1] He graduated from Winter Park High School in 1998 and then earned a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Eckerd College and a master's degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana.[3] Green currently resides in Missoula, Montana, with his wife Katherine, their cat Cameo, and their dog Lemon.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Brotherhood 2.0

Main article: Vlogbrothers

From January 1 to December 31, 2007, Green and his brother John ran a video blog project entitled Brotherhood 2.0.[4][5] The original project ran daily for the entire year, with the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based ("textual") communication for the year and instead converse by video blogs, made available to the public via their YouTube channel Vlogbrothers and on their website. The initial idea for the project was John's when, during an instant messaging conversation between the two, he pointed out they had not gone past the realms of communication via phone conversations, e-mails, and instant messaging for nearly a year.[6]

Recurring themes included "Nerdfighters", adding the phrase "in your pants" to the end of book titles, "Song Wednesdays", "Question Tuesdays" (these normally did not take place on a Tuesday, which led to video titles such as "Question Tuesday on Friday"), punishments for breaking the rules, clips of Hank 'humping' various items, the DFTBA initialism ('Don't Forget To Be Awesome'), and featuring intercourse between giraffes as the thumbnail for videos.

By December 31, 2007, the brothers had decided to continue vlogging even though the project had ended.

In 2008, John and Hank met up with their fans, known as "Nerdfighters". The first gathering was a last minute decision, but despite the short three day notice, nearly a hundred people attended. In August, John and Hank were invited to the Google office in Chicago to talk about the project.[7] That same day, they filled the Harold Washington Library with some four hundred young adults.[8] Following John's tour to promote his third novel, Paper Towns, the brothers went on a national tour in November. With events in 17 different cities, they met thousands of Nerdfighters at local libraries and community centers. During this tour, Hank released his first album of Nerdfighter-themed songs, entitled So Jokes.[9]

The Green brothers have been interviewed on PotterCast and have been recurring keynote speakers at the Harry Potter fan convention LeakyCon.[10]

The Brotherhood 2.0 project succeeded in its original mission. The two brothers have come to communicate more thoroughly with each other, and have a larger influence in each others' lives than before the project was initiated. The brothers talked on the phone once or twice a year before Brotherhood 2.0, but, according to Hank's wife Katherine, they now "talk almost every day."[11]

John and Hank continued to post vlogs every Tuesday and Friday on their channel. As of September 14, 2012, they have posted 1,000 videos.[12] With over 820,000 subscribers, they are the 149th most subscribed directors on the website. Their videos have been watched over 260 million times.[13]

In 2012, John and Hank also began new projects, YouTube web-shows named "Crash Course" and "SciShow" (both of which began late January). "CrashCourse" is an educational series, with weekly epidodes, consisting of John teaching World History and Literature and Hank teaching Biology and Ecology, and SciShow features Hank updating viewers on scientific knowledge and news.

Career

Web development

Throughout high school and college Green created and designed for himself and local clients. His first project, his 1996 "Mars Exploration Page", experienced minor success on the heels of the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Later, another semi-viral hit, IHateI4.com, brought local news channels and the Orlando Sentinel knocking on his door.[14]

Green continued as a web developer after moving to Montana for graduate school, focusing on developing websites for educational institutions (including the University of Montana) and environmental non-profit organizations.

Writing and journalism

While in graduate school, Green created EcoGeek, a blog focusing on technological advancements that would benefit the environment.[13] Starting out as a class project,[15] EcoGeek evolved into a major environmental publication.[16]

EcoGeek caught the attention of Time,[17] where it was described as "porn for hardcore science, tech and enviro freaks". Writing about environmental issues, Green has been published on numerous environmental blogs, including Treehugger.com, Yahoo! Green, The National Geographic Green Guide, and Scientific American.

Green's work has appeared on The Weather Channel, Planet Green, NPR[18] and in the New York Times.[19] During the mid-2000s, Green wrote regularly for Mental Floss and co-authored one of their books, Mental Floss: Scatterbrained.[20]

Music

During the Brotherhood 2.0 project, Green accepted a challenge to perform an original song biweekly (known as "Song Wednesdays") and he has continued, though less frequently, to write, record, and perform songs ever since. Green's music is lyrically driven with a focus on wit. Songs include "I'm Gonna Kill You," "Baby, I Sold Your Dog on eBay," and "What Would Captain Picard Do?". Green's first successful song was "Accio Deathly Hallows", which was featured on YouTube's front page preceding the release of the final Harry Potter book,[21] and has been viewed over one and a half million times.[22] The front-page feature gave the Vlogbrothers' YouTube channel its first significant boost in traffic.

Green's first studio album, So Jokes, was released whilst he was on tour with his brother John, promoting the book Paper Towns. The album reached number 22 on the Billboard top 25 revenue generating albums online.[23] He has since released three other albums- I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009), This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) and most recently Ellen Hardcastle (2011), named for the winner of a charity raffle in 2010.

Business

Green's latest business move has been the creation and marketing of "2-D" glasses, which allow one to watch 3-D movies in 2-D, originally created for those who experience discomfort watching 3-D, such as Green's wife. The glasses consist of either two right or two left lenses from a pair of regular 3-D glasses.[24]

DFTBA Records

Not to be confused with DFA Records.

DFTBA Records (an initialism for "Don't Forget to Be Awesome")[25] is a record label that was co-founded by Green and Alan Lastufka in 2008. Its main focus is music generated by prominent YouTube stars, such as Green himself, Dave Days, Charlie McDonnell, Alex Day, Chameleon Circuit, Molly Lewis, Rhett and Link, VenetianPrincess, NicePeter, Jason Munday and several others. Distribution of records by DFTBA Records is largely independent; Lastufka himself generally oversees most of the distribution.

The goal of the record label, as Lastufka stated in a video on the subject, is to provide a distribution network for talented artists of YouTube and to make sure their music reaches out to the "largest audience possible."[26] The record label claims to aid a bigger audience in connecting with the artists, and make the "YouTube experience" more lucrative, more exciting, and more fun. The offices of DFTBA Records are in Manhattan, Illinois.[27]

VidCon

Main article: VidCon

In December 2009, Green and his brother John launched VidCon, an "online video" conference that was held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles in July 2010. The conference has continued annually and sold out in 2010 and 2011.[28] VidCon 2012 was held at the Anaheim Convention Center, and sold out at over 5,000 attendees.

Discography

  • So Jokes (2008)
  • I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009)
  • This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009)
  • Ellen Hardcastle (2011)
  • Tour de Nerdfighting (2012)

Also appears on:

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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Brotherhood 2.0: May 16, YouTube
  2. ^ "Vlogbrothers channel". YouTube. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
  3. ^ "Hank's MySpace". Myspace.com. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
  4. ^ Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging, NPR, All Things Considered, January 20, 2008
  5. ^ Brotherhood 2.0. (Description,), Point Click & Go, Fox News Mobile, August 14, 2007
  6. ^ "Brotherhood 2.0 Founders", KDKA (CBS)
  7. ^ Nerdfighters: Insider View from a YouTube Persona, Google Tech Talks, Youtube
  8. ^ Vlogbrothers bring message to Chicago,video, CBS 2 News, August 8, 2008
  9. ^ Hank Green releases So Jokes, DFTBA Records
  10. ^ Keynote Speaker Announcement, The Leaky Cauldron
  11. ^ The Missoulian, Big Sky nerds
  12. ^ Vlogbrothers on StatSheep
  13. ^ a b Recession-resistant jobs - Missoula Independent
  14. ^ "Road Rants Go Online"
  15. ^ EcoGeek Makes a Splash in Debut Jonathan Weber, NewWest.net
  16. ^ Catone, Josh (October 15, 2007). "The Top 35 Environmental Blogs". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
  17. ^ Green Websites, Time
  18. ^ Shell Opens Hydrogen Station In L.A. - NPR, 2008-07-07
  19. ^ Notes on a sick planet - New York Times, 2007-10-14
  20. ^ Editors of mental floss (2006). Mental Floss: Scatterbrained. New York: Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-088250-1. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) Green read part of the novel he is working on on a livestream video to raise funds for an indiegogo project by The Harry Potter Alliance
  21. ^ Heilman, Elizabeth E. (2009). Critical perspectives on Harry Potter. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96484-5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  22. ^ "July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows", YouTube
  23. ^ May TuneCore Charts [1], Shore Fire Media
  24. ^ Browning, Skylar (June 16-June 23, 2011). "Two D's Better Than Three: Hank Green Finds a Place in Hollywood's Excesses", Missoula Independent, Vol. 22, No. 24, p.8.
  25. ^ "DFTBA" Music Video, Youtube
  26. ^ "187: Books, DFTBA Records and Holidays" YouTube
  27. ^ Lastufka, Alan. "DFTBA Offices". Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  28. ^ "Twitter / VidCon 2010".

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