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.

BREAK TIME 2FER!

Today you’re getting a choice. If you could take a vacation today (and you can; in fact, you’re about to), would you rather go wilderness or go urban? Would you rather get away from it all into the great outdoors, or escape to the noise and excitement of the big city? Of course, you can have both. Your first option: …

This week’s videocation

We sometimes call it The Hump Day Hiatus. This week it’s a day late, but really, when is it not a good time for a brief yet refreshing break? Today we journey to the Ventana Wilderness of California, part of the Los Padres National Forest, to meet Jack English, all of 93 years old, living a life of solitude in …

It’s break time!

If you need a little break, take this mini armchair vacation and arrive back in town refreshed and rejuvenated. Your destination: the great city of Chicago. City In Motion from Drone Media Chicago on Vimeo.

Hiatus, Hump Day style

You’ve reached the halfway point of another week, hopefully a shortened one for many. As someone has said, yesterday the Mondayest Tuesday ever. Ah, but I digress. Herewith is a sumptuous feast for the eyes, a trip to Iceland, the land of the midnight sun. This one Hump Day Hiatus all by itself – should you choose to pause and …

Pipe Dreams

That’s the title of this week’s celebrated Hump Day Hiatus. I saw a teaser for this on last night’s CBS Evening News and I thought my intended post for today was blown. But they showed maybe 10 seconds of this beautiful and adrenalinized piece of splendid cinematography. So please, enjoy it in all of its uncut splendor, compliments of the …

5-Hour Energy (minus about 4 hours and 55 minutes)

Hey, who wants to get sued, right? But in the interests of continuing to celebrate summer and encouraging every person we can possibly reach to be more physically active, we offer this week’s Hump Day Hiatus. There’s plenty of stuff you’re about to see that you shouldn’t try at home – surfing and mountain climbing, for instance – and other …

Escape the heat

Here is your mid-weekly dose of escapism, a little thing we like to call the Hump Day Hiatus. We all need a refreshing break every now and then, but who has time to go to New Zealand or the Italian or Swiss Alps? You do, as a matter of fact. That is, if you have seven or eight minutes to …

Let’s go to Tokyo

There is no place quite like it (a statement that pretty much describes everyplace). This intoxicating glimpse just might send you to the nearest airport. Don’t forget your passport! See you back here in 3 minutes, 49 seconds! Tokyo Roar from Brandon Li on Vimeo.

Walk in Shanghai

As you might have already surmised (today being the middle of the week), the title walk is this week’s Hump Day Hiatus. I can assure you, it’s a walk like no other.