He's very poetic. It must be divinity school (or maybe divinity school attracts poets...); a ministerial intern I know weaves beautiful verses, poignant and relevant every time.
Watch 'Sunrise', a beautiful silent movie, with some friends, and then point out partway through that everyone in that movie is now dead, even the infant baby. I recommend during the drunken pig scene!
"We then found out way to the records room; full of EKGs of hearts that had stopped beating decades ago." I damn near cried that was so beautiful. Slow clap for you, John Green.
How have the three years between the time this was created and the time i've posted this comment changed you? Who were you when you wrote this, and are you still the same?
Watching this video, I realized why John's books are so popular. He is a magician with words. No, it is more than that. He seems to easily spew sentences and phrases that resonate within my mind and it is a wonder that he is not voicing documentaries.
Ikr! I sometimes have those moments when I'm thinking 'Wow. Living is awesome!' I know it might seem weird, but with all the poverty, disasters, crimes and other hardships and nasty stuff, there are things that makes this world so beautiful. I often find myself overthinking about how precise nature is, or stuff like mechanisms behind objects we use so much in our lives. And the feeling everyone gets when exploring and when being face to face with the unknown, it just feels like magic, no matter the age. I have come to the conclusion that even if I often hate some people for what they are doing or saying, I still love them. Paradoxical, I know, but true;D
I really want to go and explore some old abandoned buildings. As a friend used to say "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". A quote I find should apply to more than it does.
This is one of my favourite vlogbrothers videos. I love it so much because it really makes me understand just how John wrote his books so insightfully. I'm not saying that he isn't smart in his other videos, though that is debatable (see 'Eating a Fat Sandwich' or any other punishment), but this just makes me see the true meaning and genius behind the words on the pages I love so much.
Wow! Lived just a few miles from there most of my life and have never been in that building. It’s amazing the things we miss in our own neighborhood. Thank you for the tour!
i have seen this before, but i literally just finished reading miss peregrine's home for peculiar children and it brought me back to this video. Knowing that Ransom Riggs is an urban explorer of abandoned places totally explains the settings of that novel. (which is an amazing book by the way !)
Every time I think you out do yourself, John, you fail my expectorations and do something EVEN better! I love love love your thoughts from places. Thanks for being awesome!
I love exploring abandoned buildings and such, but I'm a bit of a weirdo that finds beauty in desolation. When I lived in Pennsylvania, my ex and I would go to Centralia every Halloween and find some building to explore, except for our first year together where we went to PennHurst Asylum, a super creepy abandoned mental asylum. Anyone that lives in eastern Pennsylvania, I highly recommend you look into either one of them sometime, they are amazing to see, and freaky as hell. Centrelia especially if you've ever played Silent Hill 2.
That is so cool. Honestly about a hundred thousand story ideas popped into my head four seconds into the first shot of the the abandoned mental hospital. And my goodness John Green you NEED to do an audio-book
I live in Saskatchewan (a praire province in Canada) and the one thing I love about where I live is the abundance of abandoned buildings. If you drive for about 30 mins outside of my town in any direction you will come across abandoned buildings (farm houses along with barns, etc). A friend and I once took an entire day and just drove until we found buildings to explore. We even found an entire abandoned town (about 8 of 9 houses completely dilapidated). I loved how delicate every building felt. Like it could collapse if we breathed too hard. I have no idea where you live, but if you ever have the opportunity to explore a long deserted building I would highly recommend it.
This reminded me of the abandoned mental hospital system in my home town. It was abandoned at some point in the 90's and is kind of a rite of passage for high school students to enter the hospitals at some point before they graduate. I don't believe in ghosts, but I was very nearly convinced the first time I went in there and every time after that
I live in an old fifties boom town that has nothing but abandoned factories now. I've always wanted to explore them and yesterday i finally did. We broke in through one of the windows and it was one of the coolest things ever. It was an old GM plant so we saw old stamping machines, old springs etc. The coolest thing i think was being able to take a bearing from the fifties that is still in its original packaging and everything. Just imagine how collectable something like that is now.
No matter how many times I watch this video, I cease to be amazed by his words and descriptions, and how such a place can be so beautiful, but at the same time, unsightly in a number of ways. Makes you think about humanity, and as he said, the temporariness.
Oh gosh, I bought the novel Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children at a small but popular market in Sydney and I honestly didn't take notice of who actually wrote it because I was too interested in the writing someone had scribbled in through the book in a different language. Great book, it's a definite must read. I can't believe John Green is friends with Ransom Riggs, two fabulous authors.
my brother and i once explored an abandoned porcelain factory in eastern germany. there were old molds and even thousands of espressocups lying around. It was creepy and adventurous and beautiful!
John, your son is very lucky to be blessed with a Father such as yourself. Especially if you read to him, because your voice is soothing as well as inviting, leading me to think deeper and look less at the surface of things, and more of what lies beneath.
This is probably my favourite vlogbrothers video. It isn't often that the nerdfighters get to experience John's literary brilliance unless we have read his incredible books and the way this video was shot was all simply genius. This is everything a great vlog needs to be outstanding.
I know you said a while ago that thoughts from places videos are consistently less popular than your other videos, but I just want to say they they're my favourite things you do- so poignant and thought-provoking, and you always instill such a sense of intensity and calm to your experiences.
John, I've always respected you immensely, but this brings my level of admiration for you to a whole new level. I would NEVER EVER be brave enough to go in there.
Was that where they filmed Grave Encounters? Because that tub and empty room and all the hallways and underground tunnel all look like it was from that movie set
I love how johns in an extremely creepy place that would have me curl into a ball and cry, and he's just speaking in this incredibly poetic way!! It's amazing!!
This video is the dream. I miss living in the same area as my urbex friends, but at least I can rewatch these, which are a lot more interesting than your basic urbex videos. I'd love to see more!
I can always tell when John Green is having a particularly articulate day, were he feels like putting a purple patch that really moves the audience in his speech. I hope there is a plethora of videos like this in the future.
Oh my god. That was incredible. All I want out of life is to be able to string a bunch of words together in a way that makes people's hearts beat a little bit faster.
Today, for the first time, I added every vlogsbrothers video I watched to my favorites. I didn't realize how poetic they were until like 10 minutes ago!
You are a writer. Even if I didn't know about your best sellers, the way you describe the emptiness and inexplicable beauty of the things around you gives it away. I'm off to purchase a John Green novel!
The entire narration of this video instantly made me feel as though I was in one of his novels, the description of the abandoned hospital was beautiful. Even if I hadn't seen what it looked like, I would've imagined it like this anyways because of the way he spoke of the surroundings.
I love it. You're such a novelist, even in your vlogs. Even your description of the place is spoken in a poetic manner. It's as though I'm not watching a video so much but a visual of an Edgar Allen Poe short story.
I could listen to you talk about stuff all day. You realize this is exactly why you are an author? Because you make the most creepy and odd things poetic and fantastic. Also because you are just that awesome.
John, your writer is showing!:) this was so fantastically creepy and weird and scary and wonderful, all at the same time. How strange to see what decayed life is. How many of the hospitals that we were born in will wind up very nearly like that one? That hospital was once filled with lively people and miracles happened and death happened and LIFE happened. It's so beautiful.
Your thoughts from places videos are definitely one of my favorite genres (your videos have genres XD). They just have the most interesting flavor... They're all so similar but so different. They're awesome
Oh, i just love hearing John's narrative voice. I wish that's how books were adapted to movies, being read with the scene unfolding right there in front of you; granted they would be MUCH longer, but reading books take that long anyway, so it's not like you are losing precious moments in life: you'd just be losing an aching, forever-craned neck.
That's fabulous! I love abandoned buildings! I live right near an old TB San, it's been abandoned for several years now after all the other organisations who used it couldn't afford it's rent anymore. I'd love to go exploring it, but it's also one of the most haunted buildings in the area, and that scares the pants off me!
John Green, I deeply apologize for only having now picked up Looking for Alaska. I have been looking for a book so amazing as to keep me up all night reading, I suspect I have not found just one but your many books which will do so over the coming weeks. You are a beautiful writer and I believe I have just fallen in love with yet another wonderfully amazing book.
John, this video reminded me so much of your book "Paper Towns". I loved that book so much and it's odd that what the empty rooms in the basement of this hospital looks like is kind of what I pictured in my head for the mini mall in that book. I love you, and your book and yours and Hank's videos and I just wanted to let you know (:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is an amazing book. Slightly romantic, mysterious, magical, and even a hint of macabre. From the outside, it looks like a children's book, but looks can be deceiving. EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!
I love exploring old buildings. A couple weeks back I went into the house my great, great grandfather was born in, well I didn't get very far before I stepped through the rotten floor. I walked around back and there was a small family grave yard. It was amazing to me that one day I could be in some grave just forgotten in the woods because society had moved on.
"We found our way to the records room, full of EKGs of hearts that had stopped beating decades ago." Holy Shit that is heavy!
He's very poetic. It must be divinity school (or maybe divinity school attracts poets...); a ministerial intern I know weaves beautiful verses, poignant and relevant every time.
He should really be a writer lol
Watch 'Sunrise', a beautiful silent movie, with some friends, and then point out partway through that everyone in that movie is now dead, even the infant baby. I recommend during the drunken pig scene!
He IS a writer...
I feel like it would be wonderful to have those old EKGs as a reminder of other people's lives and as a reminder to live ours.
Since I am not currently residing in an abandoned hospital, no, I will not be trying this at home.
I love how you phrased that
"I saw a figure in the mirror and about peed myself before realizing that it was me." I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time XD
Don't try this at home, try it at old, abandoned hospitals.
+Blakeisnotblue I like your way of thinking.
Or don't make abandoned hospital your home! :D
"We then found out way to the records room; full of EKGs of hearts that had stopped beating decades ago." I damn near cried that was so beautiful. Slow clap for you, John Green.
This is one of those Vlogbrothers videos that I love to re watch.
John I apologize because youthful curiosity causes me to try this at home.
How have the three years between the time this was created and the time i've posted this comment changed you? Who were you when you wrote this, and are you still the same?
@@XxLuke117xX what about you? It’s been 2 years where are you now? What are you doing?
@@stopicks rare tumors, bachelors degree, fiancé. A lot can change in two years :)
I’m here on a rewatch because it’s so good!
Dude... you're afraid of standing on tables.
DaaaahWhoosh +++++++
Watching this video, I realized why John's books are so popular. He is a magician with words. No, it is more than that. He seems to easily spew sentences and phrases that resonate within my mind and it is a wonder that he is not voicing documentaries.
Are all great authors like besties or something?
Seems so 😂
John also know MT Anderson
Wow, the way you worded this video... It is very clear that you make an excellent writer. I am finally going to read one of your books.
Zelantheral what do you think of them now?
This reminds me of Margo.
I was expecting to see a troll hole
I assume you've all seen the abandoned building video in Detroit...
The inspiration for Paper Towns and complete with a troll hole.
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Isn't a beautiful thing to think that that childhood curiosity and excitement of discovering never goes away? God damn existence is amazing.
CrimsonOptics Its very relieving, as well, to me anyway.
Ikr! I sometimes have those moments when I'm thinking 'Wow. Living is awesome!' I know it might seem weird, but with all the poverty, disasters, crimes and other hardships and nasty stuff, there are things that makes this world so beautiful. I often find myself overthinking about how precise nature is, or stuff like mechanisms behind objects we use so much in our lives. And the feeling everyone gets when exploring and when being face to face with the unknown, it just feels like magic, no matter the age. I have come to the conclusion that even if I often hate some people for what they are doing or saying, I still love them. Paradoxical, I know, but true;D
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I really want to go and explore some old abandoned buildings. As a friend used to say "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". A quote I find should apply to more than it does.
I think I'd like this friend. That is a good saying to have in one's arsenal.
This is one of my favourite vlogbrothers videos❤
Oh wait, are you an eloquent novelist?
I absolutely adore these videos, they are beautiful. Thanks John.
This was a really well-done video!
oh hi there even from 9 years ago
That is the most amazing building I could imagine exploring!
This is one of my favourite vlogbrothers videos. I love it so much because it really makes me understand just how John wrote his books so insightfully. I'm not saying that he isn't smart in his other videos, though that is debatable (see 'Eating a Fat Sandwich' or any other punishment), but this just makes me see the true meaning and genius behind the words on the pages I love so much.
Paper Towns, anyone? :)
Wow! Lived just a few miles from there most of my life and have never been in that building. It’s amazing the things we miss in our own neighborhood. Thank you for the tour!
This is one of the most beautiful vlogbrothers videos ever, in my opinion. I'd love to go to abandoned buildings with friends like these.
John sounded like an author. :) very poetic
He is an author. He wrote The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson Will Grayson, Looking for Alaska and a couple others
Charlotte Bourdon that's what I mean. xD
Charlotte Bourdon I love your username BTW...that book was the best! :)
J Huish If you're talking about the book Star Girl, quite agreed
Yup! Best book ever! :)
i have seen this before, but i literally just finished reading miss peregrine's home for peculiar children and it brought me back to this video. Knowing that Ransom Riggs is an urban explorer of abandoned places totally explains the settings of that novel. (which is an amazing book by the way !)
This has to be one of my favorite videos ever created. Thank you.
+Madelyn Richman SAME I love this video
Probably one of my favorite Vlogbrothers videos ever, way to go!
Every time I think you out do yourself, John, you fail my expectorations and do something EVEN better! I love love love your thoughts from places. Thanks for being awesome!
I love exploring abandoned buildings and such, but I'm a bit of a weirdo that finds beauty in desolation. When I lived in Pennsylvania, my ex and I would go to Centralia every Halloween and find some building to explore, except for our first year together where we went to PennHurst Asylum, a super creepy abandoned mental asylum.
Anyone that lives in eastern Pennsylvania, I highly recommend you look into either one of them sometime, they are amazing to see, and freaky as hell. Centrelia especially if you've ever played Silent Hill 2.
That is so cool. Honestly about a hundred thousand story ideas popped into my head four seconds into the first shot of the the abandoned mental hospital. And my goodness John Green you NEED to do an audio-book
Honestly, let's get a "Who Gards the Gards?" T-Shirt.
I second this!
I love all the vlogbrother videos, but my favorite ones by far have always been the Thoughts from Places.
I love going to abandoned factories or old asylums, the story each room can tell is astounding.
'do not try this at home'..... because we all live in abandoned hospitals ...... and wake up at 8:30
I wish I knew how to find abandoned things like that. That would actually be really cool to explore.
I live in Saskatchewan (a praire province in Canada) and the one thing I love about where I live is the abundance of abandoned buildings. If you drive for about 30 mins outside of my town in any direction you will come across abandoned buildings (farm houses along with barns, etc). A friend and I once took an entire day and just drove until we found buildings to explore. We even found an entire abandoned town (about 8 of 9 houses completely dilapidated). I loved how delicate every building felt. Like it could collapse if we breathed too hard. I have no idea where you live, but if you ever have the opportunity to explore a long deserted building I would highly recommend it.
Vanessa Hill I don't mean to be creepy, but in which town do you live? I mean in which city.
Eruvian danubeon Saskatoon :)
I really, really love that thumbnail. So artsy!
My friend gave me "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" for either Christmas or my birthday, and it is truly amazing. I loved it.
i love watching john's thoughts from places videos because it lets me into the mind of a novelist and isn't that amazing
This makes me want to wander around in an abandoned building and write. I'm sure that's more educational than school, right?
This reminded me of the abandoned mental hospital system in my home town. It was abandoned at some point in the 90's and is kind of a rite of passage for high school students to enter the hospitals at some point before they graduate. I don't believe in ghosts, but I was very nearly convinced the first time I went in there and every time after that
I live in an old fifties boom town that has nothing but abandoned factories now. I've always wanted to explore them and yesterday i finally did. We broke in through one of the windows and it was one of the coolest things ever. It was an old GM plant so we saw old stamping machines, old springs etc. The coolest thing i think was being able to take a bearing from the fifties that is still in its original packaging and everything. Just imagine how collectable something like that is now.
No matter how many times I watch this video, I cease to be amazed by his words and descriptions, and how such a place can be so beautiful, but at the same time, unsightly in a number of ways.
Makes you think about humanity, and as he said, the temporariness.
The way he talks through out the video is so poetic and soft. The way he describes everything is amazing.
Oh gosh, I bought the novel Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children at a small but popular market in Sydney and I honestly didn't take notice of who actually wrote it because I was too interested in the writing someone had scribbled in through the book in a different language. Great book, it's a definite must read. I can't believe John Green is friends with Ransom Riggs, two fabulous authors.
I'm pretty sure I've seen at least a dozen movies that were filmed there. I want go see it myself, now.
my brother and i once explored an abandoned porcelain factory in eastern germany. there were old molds and even thousands of espressocups lying around. It was creepy and adventurous and beautiful!
John, your son is very lucky to be blessed with a Father such as yourself. Especially if you read to him, because your voice is soothing as well as inviting, leading me to think deeper and look less at the surface of things, and more of what lies beneath.
This is probably my favourite vlogbrothers video. It isn't often that the nerdfighters get to experience John's literary brilliance unless we have read his incredible books and the way this video was shot was all simply genius. This is everything a great vlog needs to be outstanding.
"i saw a figure in the mirror and about peed myself before realising it was me" 😂😂😂😂
I love it when John speaks like he writes
DFTBA :)
John got his author on during that last narrative.
I know you said a while ago that thoughts from places videos are consistently less popular than your other videos, but I just want to say they they're my favourite things you do- so poignant and thought-provoking, and you always instill such a sense of intensity and calm to your experiences.
i always love the "thoughts from places" video's! they're some of my favorites!
god damn this man's a true poet.
This sounds like a reading of a short story. Thats what happens when an author blogs! haha, I love him...
this looks so much like outlast its freaky
I was thinking the exact same thing omg
Always been my favorite Vlogbrothers
John, I've always respected you immensely, but this brings my level of admiration for you to a whole new level. I would NEVER EVER be brave enough to go in there.
I wanna be a part of that friend group. LETS EXPLORE ALL THE CREEPY
THAT`S HOW AN EPISODE OF SUPERNATURAL STARTS WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
thoughts from places,
so good
I always love Thoughts from Places, even when they take place in a creepy abandoned hospital.
favorite vlogbrothers video. i love nothing more than abandoned buildings, and never have i found one that beautiful in real life.
Is this the same hospital from the young blood chronicles?
I mean...possibly.
My bands' name is Mildew and Bird Dung
Was that where they filmed Grave Encounters? Because that tub and empty room and all the hallways and underground tunnel all look like it was from that movie set
I love how johns in an extremely creepy place that would have me curl into a ball and cry, and he's just speaking in this incredibly poetic way!! It's amazing!!
This video is the dream. I miss living in the same area as my urbex friends, but at least I can rewatch these, which are a lot more interesting than your basic urbex videos. I'd love to see more!
John... have you seen supernatural or any horror movie? If not, I would like inform you that you were just in the first five minutes of both
Okay the bath tub thing scared me a bit... I really have to pee... But there's a tub in there... q.q
Why must we be children to be curious?
I can always tell when John Green is having a particularly articulate day, were he feels like putting a purple patch that really moves the audience in his speech. I hope there is a plethora of videos like this in the future.
Oh my god. That was incredible. All I want out of life is to be able to string a bunch of words together in a way that makes people's hearts beat a little bit faster.
I thought I saw a little blur at about 3:07 but I'm not sure....
OMG!!! I thought I was the only person who saw that!
I think it was a light reflection
paper towns research ..
Today, for the first time, I added every vlogsbrothers video I watched to my favorites. I didn't realize how poetic they were until like 10 minutes ago!
I love your narration of it. It sounds like reading a letter, but listening to it and its not a letter... so uh.. yeah.
You are a writer. Even if I didn't know about your best sellers, the way you describe the emptiness and inexplicable beauty of the things around you gives it away. I'm off to purchase a John Green novel!
Why are you so fantastically poetic even when talking about a semi-gutted hospital? I love it.
The entire narration of this video instantly made me feel as though I was in one of his novels, the description of the abandoned hospital was beautiful. Even if I hadn't seen what it looked like, I would've imagined it like this anyways because of the way he spoke of the surroundings.
I love it. You're such a novelist, even in your vlogs. Even your description of the place is spoken in a poetic manner. It's as though I'm not watching a video so much but a visual of an Edgar Allen Poe short story.
I could listen to you talk about stuff all day. You realize this is exactly why you are an author? Because you make the most creepy and odd things poetic and fantastic. Also because you are just that awesome.
probably one of the best and beautifully narrated vlogbrothers vids!
i like how the video starts off with a bright, beautiful scene with lots of sunshine and palm trees...and then gets darker and darker from there...
John, your writer is showing!:) this was so fantastically creepy and weird and scary and wonderful, all at the same time. How strange to see what decayed life is. How many of the hospitals that we were born in will wind up very nearly like that one? That hospital was once filled with lively people and miracles happened and death happened and LIFE happened. It's so beautiful.
Aghhhh I'm completely positive that this is going to be one of my favorite vlogbrothers videos of all time
after all these years i think this is my favorite vlogbrothers videos
Seriously one of the best VlogBrothers videos I've ever seen
Your thoughts from places videos are definitely one of my favorite genres (your videos have genres XD). They just have the most interesting flavor... They're all so similar but so different. They're awesome
Amen to that. I almost forgot how profound and grippingly articulate he can be ESCPECIALLY when he's being solemn like this.
Oh, i just love hearing John's narrative voice. I wish that's how books were adapted to movies, being read with the scene unfolding right there in front of you; granted they would be MUCH longer, but reading books take that long anyway, so it's not like you are losing precious moments in life: you'd just be losing an aching, forever-craned neck.
John, i have been under a cloud of writers block for the last few weeks! this video has utterly inspired me -Thank you and Happy Birthday
You can totally tell John is an author in this video, the way he describes the boiler room is amazing
How do you make describing abandoned hospitals sound so poetic, John? You make it sound like some art exhibit.
That's fabulous! I love abandoned buildings! I live right near an old TB San, it's been abandoned for several years now after all the other organisations who used it couldn't afford it's rent anymore. I'd love to go exploring it, but it's also one of the most haunted buildings in the area, and that scares the pants off me!
This is one of my absolute favorite videos that gets watched many, many times.
Boy do I love hearing him speak, his voice and in the tone he speaks in is very poetic.
Oh god, I so badly want to visit this hospital now. John, your narration makes it sound SO much more appealing.
John Green, I deeply apologize for only having now picked up Looking for Alaska. I have been looking for a book so amazing as to keep me up all night reading, I suspect I have not found just one but your many books which will do so over the coming weeks. You are a beautiful writer and I believe I have just fallen in love with yet another wonderfully amazing book.
John, this video reminded me so much of your book "Paper Towns". I loved that book so much and it's odd that what the empty rooms in the basement of this hospital looks like is kind of what I pictured in my head for the mini mall in that book. I love you, and your book and yours and Hank's videos and I just wanted to let you know (:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is an amazing book. Slightly romantic, mysterious, magical, and even a hint of macabre. From the outside, it looks like a children's book, but looks can be deceiving. EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!
This is beyond cool. I love your writing and I love your narrating, you're just brilliant. I wish I could explore abandon buildings.
I love exploring old buildings. A couple weeks back I went into the house my great, great grandfather was born in, well I didn't get very far before I stepped through the rotten floor. I walked around back and there was a small family grave yard. It was amazing to me that one day I could be in some grave just forgotten in the woods because society had moved on.