Afternoon Delight is a daily diversion for when you’re just back from lunch, but not quite ready to knuckle down to work. Check back weekdays at 1 p.m. for another one.

Stephen loves his time-lapse videos (OK, I’ve put up some, myself), and when I first started watching this one, I thought, “Right, it’s pretty and cosmic and all, but it’s like a compendium of what everyone else has already done. Whoopee.”

But then photographer Ben Wiggins slowly puts his foot down on the accelerator. I tell ya. LA has rarely looked as good as in this video’s last minute or so.