Slow Life

March 26, 2014 4:26 PM

Slow Life: time-lapse, macro video of corals and sponges by Daniel Stoupin [previously]
posted by brundlefly (18 comments total)

Check out the orifices on that life-form.
posted by XMLicious at 5:04 PM on March 26, 2014

This is beautiful, and I know someone who will absolutely love it--thanks for the link.
posted by box at 5:16 PM on March 26, 2014

Thank you - that was both breathtakingly unbelievable and yet somehow familiar in a very comforting way at the same time.
posted by jammy at 5:36 PM on March 26, 2014 [1 favorite]

Coooooooool...
posted by sexyrobot at 5:55 PM on March 26, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Enchantment Under the Sea"
posted by roger ackroyd at 7:36 PM on March 26, 2014

The ocean is so damn gross.
posted by Sleeper at 12:08 AM on March 27, 2014

Mesmerizing and beautiful, too, but also... icky.
posted by Sleeper at 12:10 AM on March 27, 2014

David Attenborough should be narrating, it's that breathtaking.
posted by Anitanola at 12:51 AM on March 27, 2014

Am I doing something wrong? The video is flickering between colour images and black. Is this part of the time lapse?
posted by Solomon at 3:41 AM on March 27, 2014

sigh, it's been waaaay too long since I've gone diving.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 4:04 AM on March 27, 2014

Aliens in movies and on TV have never been depicted with one tenth the beauty and strangeness we can find right here on earth.
posted by Joe in Australia at 4:29 AM on March 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

Solomon, it should not be doing that.
posted by brundlefly at 8:43 AM on March 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

That was nice. I wish some of the cuts had been longer---I could just focus on what the creatures were doing, and then he'd move on to some other fabulous creature.
posted by leahwrenn at 9:07 AM on March 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

Life is insane.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 10:32 AM on March 27, 2014

Not long before I saw this video I was reading about Cambrian life and thinking about how bonkers some of it was. Then this video comes along and reminds me that life never stopped being bonkers.
posted by brundlefly at 10:42 AM on March 27, 2014

This is lovely.
posted by homunculus at 6:36 PM on March 27, 2014

I enjoyed it, but it was also a bit more nightmare-fuelish than I expected.
posted by jepler at 7:46 AM on March 29, 2014

Finally got it to work by watching it in SD. Bit of a pity as it was a beautiful video. There's been a series on the BBC recently about the Great Barrier Reef, which is also pretty good. Episode 1 here.
posted by Solomon at 2:50 PM on March 31, 2014