The week is officially half over. You made it! Here’s a quick and pleasant break to get you ready for the rest of the week in fine style. It’s what we call the Hump Day Hiatus. Enjoy!
Ready for a break?
You’ve made it halfway through the week. Don’t you think you deserve a mini mini-vacation? How about this: let’s go somewhere thousands and thousands of miles away and still in the same time zone we are. Yeah, let’s go to Argentina and Patagonia. And let’s be back before breaktime ends. If you’ve never been, Argentina and Patagonia are barren and …
Hump Day? Hiatus.
It’s midweek. You deserve a break. (You can’t have one without the other.) Have you ever been to Laos? I’ll take you there now. It’s a beautiful place where beautiful people live. Wisdom Of LAOS from Nicolas Bailleul on Vimeo. After you click play, click on the 4-arrow symbol left of “vimeo” for full-screen display.
Hump Day Hiatus Twofer
Every Wednesday in this very spot, the Medical Examiner offers you a few sweet moments of escape, perhaps a video vacation to Borneo or Bali, Chicago or Shanghai. What follows first is a beautiful reminder that life’s travels are not as much about our destination as they are about who we’re traveling with. Below that, our second feature (scroll down) …
The Hump Day Hiatus
In a week that began with yet another despicable act of terror, let’s visit a place of peace and beauty. As Thoreau wrote, “In wildness is the salvation of the world.” It’s not that in beautiful mountains or towering Sequoias or idyllic beaches we will find the solutions to hunger, poverty, crime, disease or terrorism. But we are reminded that …
Shanghai in 5 Minutes
When we buy products made in China, this is where our money is going. And this is what they’re doing with it. Pretty impressive. It’s this week’s Hump Day Hiatus. Enjoy full screen! Guangzhou’2012/CHINA from zweizwei |motion timelapse| on Vimeo.
One Big Hole Hump Day Hiatus
I have dug several holes in my life (literally and figuratively). Some of them were pretty big, but none of them ever turned out quite this spectacular.
One magical hiatus
You may never see a more captivating look at a city than what you’re about to watch. Take a city – Singapore – with some spectacular architecture to begin with, then add the special effects of tilt-shift photography. It makes everything look like it was designed by the world’s best model train set designer. What is real looks fake. What …