Cool Timelapse Videos

December 16, 2006 4:35 PM

Tlapse is the corporate YouTube account of GBTimelapse software, who are promoting their product by posting a series of really interesting timelapse films. Favorites so far are: Pumpkin, Watermelon & Bananas, but maybe I just have a decomposing fruit fetish. Although, this one of the world's laziest cat enjoying another productive day isn't bad either.
posted by jonson (12 comments total)

The Mount Shasta one is pretty fantastic too; the creeping darkness reminds me of the arrival of the giant alien spacecraft in Independence Day.
posted by jonson at 4:44 PM on December 16, 2006

Wow, that balloon one was pretty neat.
posted by Totally Zanzibarin' Ya at 4:47 PM on December 16, 2006

I had a really similar plan to time lapse video one of my cats recently, fortunately for the sake of my cat's pride, my Mac died not to long ago and it housed the magic software.

Maybe I'm simple, but I've always loved time lapse photography.

Cool stuff jonson.
posted by quin at 4:56 PM on December 16, 2006

Direct link to the balloon video mentioned by Totally Zanzibarin' Ya. It's worth it.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 5:33 PM on December 16, 2006

Thanks; these are lovely. I tried to make some time-lapse films of roots growing with a scanner last year, but gave up when it turned out that I couldn't sleep with a scanner going ZZZT-VRMVRMVRMVRMVRMVRMVRMVRMVRM-ZZZT two hundred times a night.

Gorgeous, if macabe, time-lapse films of animals decaying figure heavily in Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts.
posted by phooky at 5:45 PM on December 16, 2006 [1 favorite]

I enjoyed the cat video, but I'm a sucker for all cute cat videos. Lazy beast.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:30 PM on December 16, 2006

Albuquerque Intl. Balloon Fiesta is rockin' too.
posted by forallmankind at 6:47 PM on December 16, 2006

The chia homer video is neat but it turns weird and vaguely disturbing at the end.
posted by jedicus at 7:51 PM on December 16, 2006

I never thought much about how a watermelon would deliquesce but I leave a jack-o-lantern out to rot every year.

Thanks for all the time lapse.
posted by bobobox at 9:30 PM on December 16, 2006

So nice jonson. I too love time lapse films and enjoy the artistry of these changing cloud formations, thunder and sunset.
posted by nickyskye at 9:47 PM on December 16, 2006

This is great, thanks. It got me to comment for the first time in a while!
posted by pithy comment at 2:02 PM on December 19, 2006

It really is a Beautiful World.
posted by yhbc at 2:25 PM on December 19, 2006