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Venus Fly trap time-lapse video

Mark Frauenfelder at 12:31 pm Mon, Feb 25, 2008

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200802251229 Paul Lenz used this homemade camera rig to shoot this time-lapse video of a venus fly trap growing. Link (German) (Via Ursi's Blog)

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D3

This has sort of a vagina dentata vibe.
Charlie Lesoine

If this one guy can do time lapse shots like this, it makes the times lapse shots on BBC’s Planet Earth documentary seem less mind bogglingly impossible. Impressive!
cr0m

Really neat, but seems incomplete without a fly being gobbled in the final frame. :)
Antinous

It’s not all that different from the yoga video. Graceful, yet slightly creepy.
Wareq

Feed me, Seymour…
Doug Nelson

The rig is more interesting than the video. Can someone supply more details?
hexcalibur

Okay, I’m creeped out.

Somebody post a unicorn image, stat!
Plenz

Dough, sure somebody cann supply more details. Guess who…