Comments on: Plants in motion

Plants in motion

Jimbob — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:15:10 -0800

Plants in motion is a comprehensive archive of time-lapse movies (Quicktime format) of plants germinating and growing, flowers opening, tropic responses and circadian movements. Some of the video is quite eerie. The plants really seem...erm...alive... The site also has a guide to making your own time-lapse film.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:17:28 -0800

pssst. the plants, they really are, um, alive.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:56 -0800

Mmmm. Next time I'll include <creepy sarcasm> tags around the text, q.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:26:55 -0800

Poor little brocoli--couldn't even run away.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:36:05 -0800

It's a beautiful world we live in, a sweet romantic place.

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:36:38 -0800

I loved the dying daylily. [this is good]

By: piper28

piper28 — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:37:32 -0800

There were obviously not filmed in my garden. After all, my garden only produces dead, brown plants. (oh, except for weeds, those flourish.)

By: fatbobsmith

fatbobsmith — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:50:58 -0800

I for one welcome our time-lapse plant overlords

By: gwint

gwint — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:46:00 -0800

These are terrific. Anyone else have some nifty time-lapse sites to share?

By: dg

dg — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:06:17 -0800

[this is good]

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:46:27 -0800

gwint - set your wayback controls for twelve days ago, for Hyper-Toronto.

By: gluechunk

gluechunk — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:21:42 -0800

Anyone else have some nifty time-lapse sites to share? Ok, it's not a site, but I recommend watching A Zed & Two Noughts as it features good use of decaying animals.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:36:57 -0800

The twining morning glory is both cool and creepy. Great link — thanks, Jimbob.

By: Irontom

Irontom — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:51:49 -0800

[this is very good]

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:39:47 -0800

ages ago, I did an independant study project in high school about animation. I explored all kinds, including stop-motion. Using an 8mm film camera, that had the ability to shoot one frame per minute, I put it on a tripod in front of a tightly closed rosebud. For lighting, I used a single photo strobe unit. So, if you sat in front of the house that week, one of the rooms would flash into illumination every minute. Unfortunately, the rosebud was very uncooperative, and refused to open for days and days, so I resorted to turning up the temperature in that part of the house to sauna levels. Within a couple of hours, the bud had opened, hyperextended, and then all of the petals fell off. On film, it lasted for about 4 seconds. When I made the final presentation at the end of the term, it didn't occur to me to cut out the section of the movie where the bud remained closed, so my audience sat through 3 or 4 minutes of nothing happening, followed by what ended up looking like the bud just exploding.