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Thoughts from Places

series · in 69 videos (2010–2025)

Travelogue video series, mostly John's (2010–).

Videos by year: 2010: 10 · 2011: 14 · 2012: 14 · 2013: 8 · 2014: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2025: 3

Also known as: TFP

Threads

Also named in the threads: Song Wednesday: Hank performs a song on Wednesdays (2007) · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · 'Who the F is Hank?': John's joke answers (2008) · This Star Won't Go Out bracelets sold at DFTBA.com/Esther for the This Star Won't Go Out Foundation (2010) · Hank's trip to Haiti (2011) · Nerd Factor 2011 edition: fan-video contest · Bank of Nerdfighteria: the Nerdfighters' Kiva lending team · John's Sharpie Face: answering questions with Sharpie drawn on his face (2012) · Hank and John's trip to the UK, starting in London (February 2013) · John unexpectedly finds himself in an airport ('Am I in an airport?') (2013) · Pizzamas 2025 edition

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Craig Benzine (2) · Question Tuesday (3) · Tumblr (2) · Montana (2) · Henry Green (2) · Pizzamas (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2010

  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — announcement: John says the recent voiceover videos from places (a bison range, Munich) are the beginning of a series of visual essays called Thoughts From Places; more on his website. — 00:02:49
  • 2010-11-19 · I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam — John: On the nine-hour flight to Munich John took a sleeping pill that didn't work, never slept, and ended up delirious filming himself in the airplane bathroom. — 00:00:32
  • 2010-11-24 · Babies and Catacombs: VIENNA (Thoughts from Places) — John says Vienna is packed with babies, which he insists are not cherubs, and that they made him miss Henry. (playful) — 00:00:32
    • John says hearing this made him think about how the dead haunt us, and asks how we best honor them: near our sacred spaces, or by marveling at what they made for us? (unsure) — 00:02:52
    • Saying it is not a rhetorical question, John wonders what, if anything, we owe the dead. (unsure) — 00:02:52
  • 2010-12-10 · Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC — Hank says he was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and when the brothers go places they do Thoughts from Places. — 00:01:09
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — announcement: Hank says the brothers restructure the channel every year, are discussing it now, and have ideas viewers will be excited about for doing more awesome things in 2011. — 00:03:18

Also named in: Thoughts from Places: The Centennial Valley, Thoughts from Places: YouTube HQ, Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida, Thoughts from Places: On a Horse, Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places

2011

  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John wishes Hank a happy four-year YouTube anniversary and says he dressed up because it is their special day. — 00:00:00
    • Thanking Nerdfighters for sticking with them, John says the vlogbrothers will continue Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos in 2011 and, having heard viewers, will make more question videos, Thoughts from Places and 'info-tational' videos. — 00:02:24
  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — John thanks Hank for going to Haiti and says they look forward to the most amazing Thoughts from Places videos ever. — 00:02:49
  • 2011-05-27 · Older Than Gravity In Bruges: Thoughts from Places — John argues that living among the past reminds us people came before and will come after; we owe the dead and the not-yet-living the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust. — 00:01:47
  • 2011-09-21 · NERD FACTOR — recommendation: John praises winner two, a Thoughts from Places video from Bloemfontein, South Africa, that he says improved on the format; its maker has no subscribers, a problem John says 'we can fix'. — 00:01:23
  • …and 1 statement more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

Also named in: Thoughts from Places: Small Town America, Thoughts from Places: Los Angeles after the Earthquake, Thoughts from The Well, Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places), Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp, Thoughts from a Battlefield, Vidcon: Thoughts from Places, The Improbability of Place - Thoughts from the San Juans, Goats Mating

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says the other reason is that, in trying to make three videos a week, they let slide the project-based nerdfighter work of increasing awesome and decreasing world suck. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — both: Hank likens John's inner tube to the internet ('we just all want bigger tubes'); John calls it the worst of the tortured metaphors he draws in Thoughts from Places videos. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank lists results: $300,000 and thousands of videos for charities through P4A, thousands of This Star Won't Go Out bracelets, over $1,000,000 lent through the Nerdfighter Kiva group, hundreds of Thoughts from Places. — 00:01:04
  • 2012-10-16 · Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday — John: Walking alone in the Miami Whitewater Forest, John decided not to make a Thoughts from Places video and just go on a walk without videotaping everything he does. — 00:00:08
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says he visited his alma mater Kenyon College, where he became a writer and an adult, a couple of weeks ago and made a Thoughts from Places video for Kenyon's channel. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Hank suggests that instead of doing Thoughts from Places from really weird places, they could find really weird places where they live. (hedged) — 00:00:07

Also named in: Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam, Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places, Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo, EXTRA! Thoughts from Tour, To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012, THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana, Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C.

2013

Also named in: Thoughts from Carnegie Hall, The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin

2015

  • 2015-07-03 · Thoughts from Yachts — Hank quips that, as 'Thoughts from Places' places go, the south of France is very easy to have thoughts from. (playful) — 00:00:45

Also named in: AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth, Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places, Yellowstone: The Terror of Change

2016

Also named in: Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp, Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp, The Horizon Line, AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park, Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London

2022

Also named in: Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London

2025

Also named in: Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima

Also named in other years (nothing said): Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles (2014-04-15), Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2014-07-29), Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia (2014-08-19), I Disagree with Me (Thoughts from Lake Powell) (2017-03-24), What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy (2017-08-08), Places Made of People: Thoughts from My Old High School (2017-10-20), John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (2023-12-24), Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! (2024-08-20)