What a hiatus!

Combining tilt-shift photography with cool special effects, this is an amazing portrait of Singapore. It’s your Hump Day Hiatus for Week 24. Enjoy it full screen for sure. The Lion City from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Here’s a PSA

It’s kind of amazing how lethal speed can be. And how ineffective it is in getting people to their destinations quicker. Seconds may count in basketball, but in real life getting to work or home or to the store 30 or 60 seconds early or late does not matter. And that’s all a speeder might gain – if that. So …

Ready for this week’s Music Therapy?

You may never see a more visually arresting and creative video than this one, even if you live to be 312. Thank you, Coldplay. And let’s give a tip o’ the hat to Rene Magritte for the inspiration for this video.

Your Hump Day Hiatus arrives

The monde certainly is beau, and this videocation proves it. Please enjoy it in all its full-screen splendor.

The PSA of the Week!

After a lengthy hiatus, the PSA o’ the Week – aka Public Service Announcement – returns with a simple message. While we may think of life two or three hundred years ago as peaceful and idyllic, the person living in 1716 or 1816 certainly had occasional stress and anxiety. (People living in 1916 definitely did.) Sometimes their stressors were life-threatening, …

We haven’t published an issue this good…

…in at least two weeks. Inside: A Bad Billy Laveau instant classic. And the PERFECT book for bathroom reading. See From the Bookshelf on page 11. Our two cover stories are also worthy of your perusal. When your 16-year-old son drowns, your life can descend into endless grief. Or you can try to make something positive out of the tragic …

Music Therapy!

It falls on Thursdays, and today brings us one of the most successful videos of all time in that it launched a stellar career for Gwen Stefani and No Doubt. The video combines three elements: a staged rehearsal, electrifying live concert video from an August 1996 concert at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom, and a depiction of the media’s focus …

Take me away!

If that’s what you want, you’ve come to the right place. SURFING @ 1000 FRAMES PER SECOND from Chris Bryan on Vimeo.

What’s black, white, and read all over?

Answer: The Medical Examiner, although to be fair, it also has blue, green, yellow, red… pretty much the whole spectrum. If you don’t believe that, click over to page 16 for proof. On that same page: where Pink Floyd and healthcare intersect. Also: the debut of a new series sponsored by Queensborough National Bank profiling exceptional figures in Augusta’s long …