Hank Green
William Henry " Hank " Green ( born May 5, 1980 in Birmingham ( Alabama)) is an American video blogger, musician and entrepreneur.
Together with his brother, the YA author John Green, he runs the YouTube channel vlogbrothers since January 2007. With more than 220 million video views vlogbrothers one of the most successful video blogs on YouTube. The project started on 1 January 2007 under the name Brotherhood 2.0. The Green brothers wanted to try to communicate for one year only means of daily video messages. During the year, the number of viewers rose. End of 2007 the Project for Awesome was held for the first time in which the fans in a short period upload videos about nonprofit organizations in order to achieve the attention of YouTube visitors. Since this project is held annually and is supported by YouTube. In 2012 she toured the occasion of the publication of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars by 17 U.S. cities, most stations were sold out.
Since 2012, Hank and John Green also produce weekly videos for the channel funded by Google Crash Course. Hank Green presented there as a structured series of lessons series on chemistry, another on biology has been completed. At the same time launched channel Scishow, also supported by Google, Green also informed in an entertaining way about current science topics.
Green continues to stand together with Alan Lastufka founder and owner of the record label DFTBA Records, to which many famous by the video platform YouTube artists and bands, for example, Alex Day, Charlie McDonnell and Chameleon Circuit, under contract. Green is also itself active as a musician and so far released three studio albums.
Furthermore, Green initiator and organizer of the VidCon, which with over 2500 participants (2011) greatest YouTube conference, held annually since 2010. After two years at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles draws the 2012 conference to Anaheim in the local convention center to support the growing number of participants account.
The biochemist and environmental scientist Green from 2005 ecogeek.org to operators of online blogs, he fulltime business for a while. EcoGeek was one of the greatest blogs on environmental issues and technology, it is reported, among other things, Time Magazine. As a result, Green wrote, among other things, for the New York Times and Scientific American magazine. Green continues to operators of EcoGeek, but is no longer active as an author.
Green is married and lives in Missoula.
Discography
- 2008: So Jokes ( DFTBA Records)
- 2009: This Machine Pwns N00bs ( DFTBA )
- 2011: Ellen Hardcastle ( DFTBA )