Thoughts From Places: the vlogbrothers' series of visual essays from places (2010)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2025-10-06)
Thoughts From Places is the vlogbrothers' series of visual essays filmed in places; John named it in August 2010, after the first videos from a bison range and Munich.
Told alongside: Vlogbrothers in 2011: schedule and plans (2010)
About: Thoughts from Places
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-20 | launched | John announces that the recent voiceover place videos (a bison range, Munich) are the beginning of a series of visual essays called Thoughts From Places. → refers to Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich | The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? 00:02:49 |
| 2010-12-10 | milestone | Hank says he was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and when the brothers go places they do Thoughts from Places. | Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC 00:01:09 |
| 2011-01-03 | milestone | 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. | Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? 00:02:24 |
| 2011-02-21 | milestone | Hank calls John's Thoughts from Places video on Friday absolutely amazing and points viewers to it. | Hank Interviews His Mayor 00:00:00 |
| 2012-09-14 | milestone | 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. | 1000 VIDEOS!!! 00:01:04 |
| 2012-12-04 | milestone | 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. | Time for AWESOME 00:00:29 |
| 2012-12-07 | milestone | Hank suggests that instead of doing Thoughts from Places from really weird places, they could find really weird places where they live. (hedged) | Thoughts from Dead Animals 00:00:07 |
| 2013-05-28 | looked back | John says advertisers value the number of views over their quality: Thoughts From Places videos are the channel's least viewed, yet Nerdfighters say they are among their favourites. | NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) 00:00:32 |
| 2013-06-25 | milestone | Hannah opens with a fake Crash Course intro, then frames her video as a Thoughts from Places about coming home, written at her favourite cafe. (playful) | Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer 00:00:38 |
| 2013-08-23 | milestone | The description says Charlie made a Thoughts from Places video about Bath the condition for taking Hank there, so the video was 'a required assignment'. | Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth video description |
| 2015-07-03 | milestone | Hank quips that, as 'Thoughts from Places' places go, the south of France is very easy to have thoughts from. (playful) | Thoughts from Yachts 00:00:45 |
| 2016-07-29 | milestone | Outside his Comic-Con hotel was a Dole produce port; Hank jokes that this Thoughts from Places video will not connect it to his point and shows a time lapse. (playful) | Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) 00:02:05 |
| 2025-10-06 | milestone | The description calls the video a traditional Thoughts From Places video made during a traditional 2007 schedule, leaning into nostalgia, and points to pizzamas.com. | The Web is Going to Die video description |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2011-09-21 · 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
- 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
- 2012-10-16 · 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
- 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John meant to make a Dublin Thoughts from Places video, but Hank used all of John's footage in his own Dublin video. (playful) — 00:00:03
- 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig parodies more things John does: Question Tuesday with fake questions, a 'Who the eff is Hank?' answer, Sharpie face (a cracker smashed on his forehead), a Thoughts from Places about his office, an Oscar Wilde reading, and a 'not-airport'. (joke) — 00:02:07
- 2025-10-10 · Maybe This is My Problem — Hank says this Pizzamas has had Thoughts from Places, walks in the woods and Song Wednesdays, and now a traditional unscripted airport vlog. — 00:00:00