This was shot in New Jersey over 20 hours. It’s no wonder why over 2,000 flights have been cancelled!
The life cycle of a dandelion - in time lapse
Wow, well done Neil Bromhall. Amazing how long it appears to take for the flower to turn into seeds.
According to the YouTube page, this was filmed over the period of a month, at intervals from five to 45 minutes.
The Earth, as time-lapsed from space
Astronaut Don Pettit takes time-lapse videos of the Earth, as seen from his orbital viewpoint, and shares them with the Internet. That is awesome.
This one gets a little repetitive, since it appears he’s using the same shots multiple times, but I never get tired of seeing that aurora, especially when it pops up the first time, at about 0:15.
Gizmodo has a gallery of some of this other videos, but I found this one on the Daily What.
Clouds appear and disappear
When I was at the Brandon Folk, Music and Art Festival last month, Amy and I were just lying back, enjoying the music and the clear blue skies, when I noticed that clouds were slowly forming and dissipating while I watched.
So I pulled out the ol’ camera and took a video:
The original is over six minutes long, and my arms hurt at the end of it, but I’ve timelapsed it down to about 45 seconds — it’s sped up just over 800%.
I’m just getting into video production stuff at work, and I’m still pretty amateurish, but I like the challenge.
The music is a selection from “My Heart Has Learned To Love You, Now Do Not Say Goodbye,” a 1910 recording by Henry Burr that I found at archive.org — a wonderful resource.
Ants in your scanner
Five years of an ant colony, which was installed in a desktop scanner. A time-lapse: one scan every week for the five year period.
It looks like a music video. I like it.
24 hours inside a Wal-Mart, the time-lapse
Artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes spent 24 hours in a Wal-Mart in New Jersey, shooting a frame every 10 seconds and later stitching them together into a 2-minute time-lapse video for Fortune magazine.
He ended up using just 1,800 of the resulting 8,640 frames, and I think he’s compressed time during some of the really slow overnight portions, but the video is slightly mesmerizing.
I have been thinking of trying a time-lapse of my own, actually, watching the parking lot of a big-box power centre through a whole day.
How to design a book cover (in less than two minutes)
Okay, it’s six hours of work, but condensed down through the miracle of time-lapse to under two minutes. Cool job.
Designer Lauren sent it to Boing Boing, but she goes into much more detail on this blog entry at Design Related:
If you get a chance to read the books, they’re hilarious. They’re kind of a Victorian comedy of errors, just with werewolves and vampires. And the heroine, Alexia, is more plucky than dark. So with a little less “steam” and a little more “punk”, plus some type with a nod to British punk, we came to the “Victorian punk” kind of aesthetic of Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless.
Amazing time lapse of the stars
by Amy Breen
I have never seen the milky way like that before. Grant tells me that it’s because we’re too far north. I guess it’s kind of a trade-off, since those same people in Texas wouldn’t be able to see the beauty that is the Aurora Borealis.
Dang annoying tourists
by Amy Breen
You know, I’m kind of glad that Brandon is a small city without any huge tourist attractions. Because if I had to have my daily commute buggered up like in the video above, I’d be bloody irritated.
That said, if I were in London, I’d probably try to copy the famous Abbey Road photo, too.
(The song is called Garble Arch by the band Blame Ringo. I like the poppy melodies and schizophrenic guitar riff. Good stuff coming out of Oz!)