MetaFilter posts tagged with timelapse

Time-Lapse Favs

netbros — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:02:48 -0800

Chad Richard creates ground-breaking time-lapse photography with HDR techniques. For example, his recent compilation video Time-Lapse Favs. His weblog, Time Traveler, includes tutorials and samples. Richard has been an industry leader evolving software and web service platforms in photography, video, music and gaming for more than 15 years. As CEO of soundz.com Chad led a team that built the ﬁrst music-based search engine for the web, as well as early webcasting of live concerts. He served as Executive Producer for the launch of the consumer entertainment portal Shockwave.com and he was the co-founder and CEO of Simple Star, deploying the award-winning PhotoShow platform to industry leaders. Richard joined Apple in 2008.

How to make a baby

fcummins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:14 -0800

How to make a baby. (SFW)

Time-lapse Mandala

not_on_display — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:09:38 -0800

Time-lapse video, shot from overhead, of Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery creating a sand mandala over 5 days: Eight frames per second (1:30); Thirty frames per second (0:23). [via MeFi's Own™ carter]

Delrious Time-Lapse

netbros — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:49:21 -0800

Ben Wiggins features stunning time-lapse photography. From the strange colorings of the Cnidarian and Montipora coral species, to summer cloud transformations in and around San Francisco. Couldn't make it to Burning Man 2009? See it... in just two minutes (2008, 2007).

Timescapes

knave — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:36:03 -0800

Mountain Light is the latest beautiful time-lapse video from Tom at Timescapes. A little behind the scenes showing his dolly and camera setup in action. Check out his other videos, or follow him on Twitter.

Cross Country in 4 Minutes

The Devil Tesla — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:06:07 -0800

A road trip from San Francisco to Washington D.C. in time lapse.

A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

mattdidthat — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:04:12 -0800

Time-lapse video of the Southern California wildfires. Another image of the fires, as seen from space. Google Map.

Star light, star bright, how many stars can I see tonight?

filthy light thief — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:51:10 -0800

"The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage," said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Yet "more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way." In these areas, people are effectively living in perennial moonlight. They rarely realize it because they still experience the sky to be brighter under a full moon than under new moon conditions. "Reducing the number of lights on at night could help conserve energy, protect wildlife and benefit human health," astronomer Malcolm Smith of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. One study found an increased risk of breast cancer for women living in areas with the most light pollution (abstract). Some communities are embracing their dark skies, such as the New Zealand community of Tekapo, possibly home to first "Starlight Reserve," waiting on UNESCO's official approval. Not sure where to look in the vast night sky? Follow some guidelines, or check the view in Chile, Queensland, Australia, or Texas.

10 years is just a blink of the ever-watching galactic eye

filthy light thief — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:08:15 -0800

Inspired by its 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how the world has changed. From these images, Wired Science has made 5 videos, presenting convenient time-lapse views of the world changing (mainly) because of human actions. Watch the urbanization of Dubai, specifically the growth of Palm Jumeirah. See the Aral Sea dry up - once the fourth largest lake, down to 10 percent of its original size (marked by the thin black line in the video) by 2007. View the clearing the Amazon, as observed from above the state of Rondônia in western Brazil. Behold the return of Mesopotamia's Wetlands, now in the process of being restored from near total destruction under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Witness the impact of drought on Southern Utah's Lake Powell, where water level dropped from 20 million to 8 million acre-feet from 2000 to 2005.

Time-lapse plants

mudpuppie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:40:37 -0800

So bored you could watch plants grow? Okay, start with Corn [0:35] and Radishes [0:46]. Round it out with: Beans [0:59] Bittercress [0:50] Burr oak [0:59] Cress [1:40] Fast plant [1:38] Fungi (footage from the National Archives) [4:22] Mushrooms (the magic kind) [0:43] Mushrooms (the oyster kind) [1:03] Peas [1:17] Peppers [1:29] Pitcher plant [2:30] Potatoes [1:40] Giant pumpkin (with dynamite!) [1:28] Stone pine [0:37] Sunflowers (warning, unhappy ending) [3:51] Toadstool [1:01] Watercress [0:45] Wheatgrass [1:15] And a bonus for people of a certain age: Sesame Street explains how plants grow [0:29]. Previously.

Take It Slow, Take It Easy on Me

pokermonk — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:14:20 -0800

Control time... A face gets punched, a face gets water-ballooned, and a dog laps water (with its face!) at your accelerative discretion. (If that's not enough... Previously on Metafilter.)

Time Lapse Videos

Fuzzy Skinner — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:17:49 -0800

Four fast motion videos. And two slow ones. (You might want to open these in new windows. A funky nav scheme may not bring you back here with the "back" button. And it might show another video after the linked one. They really want you to watch their videos.)

28 hours in 16 minutes

gomichild — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:44 -0800

28 Hours in Jyväskylä Filmed at locations in and around Jyväskylä, a city in Central Finland. The idea was to show city life in a way that no-one normally experiences it - in time-lapse, often shot from roofs and masts. [Shorter version on youtube]

Stars go whoosh

Sfving — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:21:01 -0800

Ross Ching is a time-lapse photographer. Ross traveled across the US, Argentina, and Chile to shoot Eclectic 2.0 (480p Quicktime) with a DSLR mounted on a telescope tripod. Here's some production stills. See how it was made here and here. View a flash version at the website of The Ghost Orchid, who provided the music.

The snow in Cleveland falls mainly on the stadium.

Faint of Butt — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:56:08 -0800

When snow threatened the Cleveland Indians 2007 opening game, the stadium grounds crew was there to save the day. Watch them battle the forces of nature in this time-lapse video. Think you can handle this monumental task yourself? Play the game and find out.

Road Trippin'

dersins — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:03:59 -0800

"Road Trip is a short film composed of 12,397 pictures taken automatically from the back seat of a car while driving accross [sic] America from Portland, Oregon to New Hampshire."

Giant Waves Over Iowa

geos — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:15:33 -0800

Undular Bore Waves

Light Graffiti Video

Ufez Jones — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:29:57 -0800

Light Graffiti. Wacky Japanese kids use glow sticks and time lapse to make a pretty sweet (embedded) video.

Time-Lapse Phonography

roll truck roll — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:26:04 -0800

R. Luke Dubois' Billboard is a study in time-lapse phonography. Dubois digitally analyzed every #1 Billboard single from 1958 to 2005 and found a "spectral average" sound for each song. Every second of the piece represents one week in music history. The results are more interesting than you might think: compare the Beatles-dominated 1964 with the more processed, percussive sounds of 1997. Dubois has also created a time-lapse study of Oscar-winning movies. See also: "Chart Sweep" (scroll down to bottom of page). (via)

Superbowl in three minutes

thirteenkiller — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:56:36 -0800

Superbowl in three minutes. (I love you Dallas Clark and Bobby Sanders.)

The Mystery of Picasso

jonson — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:44:59 -0800

This time-lapse video of an oil-painting being created by Pablo Picasso is brief, but captivating. The clip is a scene taken from the 1955 French documentary "The Mystery of Picasso," in which director Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed the artist painting 20 different pieces. Bizarrely enough, almost all the art created for the film had to be destroyed upon close of production due to contractual obligation. Via

Cool Timelapse Videos

jonson — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:35:48 -0800

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.

Passes the Rorschach Test

Partial Law — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:54 -0800

The Daily Monster - Time-lapse videos of artist Stefan Bucher turning ink splotches into monsters. A new one every day. Also available on YouTube.

Hot Shoes Pointin' Down The Avenue

fandango_matt — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:35:24 -0800

Two time-lapse journeys through the Panama Canal.(YouTube)

Time Lapse Cityscapes

jonson — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:08:13 -0800

This video (set to The Album Leaf's "Outer Banks") is an absolutely gorgeous bit of time lapse photography, all shot around a cityscape I couldn't recognize. Watching it made me think of this movie, which is another bit of ethereal time lapse urbanscape beauty, this time shot in a city I did recognize (downtown Los Angeles & LAX initially, San Francisco later). Direct download 480p version of second film here. Of course, watching the second film reminded me of this previously posted third film (Rivers of Light, by the Grass Collective) involving cityscapes(downtown L.A. again - flash based preview here), this time in slow motion, and without audio. All links are quicktime, and HUGE, but highly recommended and very, very pretty.