The beauty and expansiveness of the night sky can be mesmerizing. Two short time-lapses from Michael Shainblum (“Existence“) and Randy Halverson (“Horizons”) perfectly illustrate this majesty which we too often take for granted. Expand to full screen and enjoy.
(h/t slate)
Horizons from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
(h/t slate)
Rob Whitworth‘s latest time production provides a startling visual insight into the rise of one China’s fastest growing cities. The film captures the pace and frenetic activity of life in this mega-city. Created together with urban identity expert JT Singh, the piece is a mesmerizing:
roller coaster ride seamlessly weaving between the iconic, sparkling and mismatched buildings of the financial district travelling by boat and taxi touring Shanghai’s impressive infrastructure whilst glimpsing some of the lesser-known aspects of Shanghai life such as the lower stratum areas or the stunning graffiti of Moganshan road.
This is Shanghai from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.
A time lapse video from the Curiosity Rover, created with the Raw Images available at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw.
Created by using only Full Data Product from the Front Left Hazcam and covers the period between Sol 0 (August 8th, 2012) and Sol 281 (May 21st, 2013).
(h/t mashable)
Ruben Van Der Vleuten’s short time-lapse film answers the question of ‘What happens when you send something by mail’?.
From A to B from Ruben van der Vleuten on Vimeo.
Music: Theme Reprise by The Cinematic Orchestra
(h/t Flowingdata)
This time-lapse of the building of One World Trade center was created from a set of photos taken since 2004. It shows the tower rising from the ground to completion in April 2012. The spire, added late last week, makes the tower the tallest in western hemisphere.
(via guardian.co.uk)
Photographer Nelson Kaso’s short tilt-shift time-lapse film featuring the city of Melbourne, Australia. It captures 10 months in the life of the city including a range of different events and festivals.
Music: “Reflections” by Tom Day.
(h/t broadsheet)
The folks over at Teehan+Lax Labs unveiled some pretty amazing software that takes images from Google’s Street View and stitches them together to create amazing hyperlapse videos like that below.
These hyperlapse videos combine time-lapse photography with sweeping camera movements to create stunning videography.
Google Street View Hyperlapse from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo.
All the Street View imagery above was captured using hyperlapse.tllabs.io. Source code at github.com/TeehanLax/Hyperlapse.js.
(via thenextweb)
Michael Shainblum’s beautiful homage to his hometown of San Diego, California.
Most people only get to experience the tourism side San Diego, but I wanted to show the city through my own eyes and artistic vision. I wanted to showcase San Diego from the eyes of somebody who has lived there their entire life.
WELCOME HOME TIMELAPSE from Michael Shainblum on Vimeo.
Music: Hooray for Earth – True Loves
A wonderful time-lapse tour of the sights and sounds experienced on the 7,500km Trans-Mongolian train journey. Made by filmmakers Factoria they explain:
We shot this footage during a transmongolian and transsiberian travel from Beijing (China) to Ulaanbataar (Mongolia capital) then to Irkusk (Siberia, Russia) and ending in Moscow (Russia).
Music: Mongol Nutag by SEDAA.
(h/t broadsheet)
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