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Time lapse of Simi Valley fires from 2005

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:27 am Thu, Jun 12, 2008

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A video from powrslave:
Shot with 3 cameras over a period of 28 hours during September 28-29th 2005. Firestorm shows a a unique look at the Simi Valley fire which consumed 25,000 acres. Look for Mars, Orion & the Moon rising in the distance...
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  • eustace

    You can see part of my commute! I ride through Simi every day.
    Gorgeous footage. The moonrise made the hairs on my neck stand up.

  • JFlex

    Lovely!

    If today’s crop of posts showed us one thing, Mark, Xeni, and David really get BoingBoing’s mission statement.

  • arkizzle

    A very, very nice piece of work.

    And I thought the music fit the video pretty well actually (what’s with all the bongo hate?).

  • Takuan

    funny how anything can look lyrical with a soundtrack and dramatic color

  • jjj

    hey, my daughter & her husband live there! Cali is freaky scary. we don’t have that kinda stuff in Jersey.
    i mean that axel foley-bongo music, fires can always be arranged

  • krisbeldin

    That’s pretty cool, when time flies, it’s fun!

  • JJ

    I haven’t done work with video or time lapse photography, but I’ve always appreciated how music and moving visuals can compliment each other. This is not one of those cases. Bongo?

  • JJ

    I was only kidding about the music. I’ve since downloaded it onto my walk man, have it as my ring tone and created a cult to have all other music abolished, so that it may stand alone and reign supreme. No kidding.

  • gabrielm

    Great transitions.
    Very powerful.
    .
    .
    .
    Then I turned the sound on!

  • alek

    On the original post, the creator chimed in about how he made this. I was kinda wondering if this is how it was done since the image quality is very high and the transitions are extremely smooth.

    “This timelapse was shot using 2 Dslr’s and one HDV cam. The beauty part is the higher resolution cameras allow me to build ‘nested composites’. Since they originally shoot at 3456×2304. This is how I was able to achieve some of the pans & zooms without motion control and maintain the original quality in Hi-def. Now if I could only find a site that would stream that kind of bandwidth. :)”

    Very cool and very nice job!

  • Pharmakos

    It’s porno for pyros.

  • eideal852

    Simi Valley FTW!
    we’re not only the home of the rodney king trials, but also the 3 year fire cycle. oh and a mall. we have a mall. so there.

    ps-My son max also lives here, he’s 2 today. BIG UP MAX!

  • devophill

    Ooohhh… I favorite-ed this after I watched it, but before I listened to it… Ouch! I liked it better with the Amon Duul II that I was playing the first time I watched it.

  • Munkcy

    Judging from some of the previous comments, I’m happy that I watched the video with my speakers muted.

  • Elysianartist

    2 words: Frickin’ Sweet.

    I’m out.

  • padster123

    Nice piece of work.

  • Wingo

    That is quite beautiful. Wonderful way to turn a tragedy into art.

    As for the music – I kind of liked it, actually. Yes, the bongos threw me off when they first came in, but I think they eventually integrated well enough.