Time lapse video of slime mold and mushrooms

Time lapse video of unusual looking molds and mushrooms erupting. Be sure to check out the related mushroom videos, too. (Via Grow-A-Brain)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

This is BoingBoing at its finest — weird, but fabulously wonderful stuff that most of us would never find. Thanks, Mark!
starcadia

@15: Nice call. I haven’t listened to that album in ages, although I still listen to Freefloater occasionally. The track in the video reminded me of Autechre’s stuff from around the same time, which is interesting. If anyone’s interested in something similar, there’s an IDM version of the film, Fantastic Planet, floating around the interwebz.
trr

I noticed the pulsing effect too, and wondered if it was a diurnal lighting variation that caused it. I really liked the part where the camera panned while it time-lapsed. Very good.
PeterNBiddle

It gets even better:

“Their method of reproduction is different… Stinkhorns instead produce a sticky spore mass on their tip…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae
Takuan

there are advantages to having a multi-Kingdom genome…
shmengie

whoever shot that video sure is a fun guy!
Secret_Life_of_Plants

@HenKaiPan

Thanks. I think you are wonderful too.
Boba Fett Diop

Oh, crap! It’s the Daikaisho! Gas masks, everyone!
afo

There are hours and hours of footage like that in Planet Earth. And if you haven’t watched that series in HD, you’re really missing out. That will single-handedly make your HDTV worth the $$$ (that and Blade Runner).
Ugly Canuck

Ah, mushrooms and molds. They have their own agendas, you know.
Cloudform

It looks like a pulsating phlegm monster.

I need a rainbow chaser.

http://www.rainbowglitter.com/sky-seasoning-by-silverstein/
bobkat

It’s weird how fungi play IDM.
Christovir

I think I started tripping on mushrooms just by watching that…
Gilbert Wham

I watched it with the sound off and Lustmord playing, which fits the slime mould much better.
dr.psilo

Wow, really cool. Except for the fact that the flash ads on boingboing crashed my browser. I had to go to the original blog entry to view the Youtube video. Sometimes its nice running a 64-bit browser with no flash…
randee

That looks a lot like the footage I saw of same while watching a DVD of the BBC’s “Blue Planet.”

Which has TONS of other great stuff.
dragonfrog

Bobkat, you think that’s weird you should watch them play pinball.
Anonymous

This was “stolen” from the Planet Earth series (the epic nature documentary shot in HD and narrated by David Attenborough). I think the poster overlaid their own music though…
ployntabs

Hey, Hey! Yeah,Yeah,yeah,yeah! isn’t nature WONDERFUL!
Anonymous

Aw, this is so great! It’s weird that the mould seem to pulse as they grow…
Yup. Agenda…
WeightedCompanionCube

… it figures the poster frame is set to the phallic looking one.

It’s even worse in the video. Made me blush, I tell you. Hello!
HenKaiPan

Also wonderful is The Secret Life of Plants. It is most memorable for its stunning, wild time-lapse videos of plants growing. A real pleasure. I think a lot of it is on Google Video; also, look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants_(film)
Bek

#5 is correct.

This is Planet Earth footage dubbed with someone else’s music. Its from the Jungles episode.
jrucifer

have you ever watched mushrooms grow… on weeeeed?
Talia

Mushrooms have a sinister agenda and must be stopped.

here’s proof.
JulianR

There’s been a documentary of those on TV just recently. I also think some of the shots in the above video were taken from it.

The TV version of that documentary I found on YouTube is dubbed german, though. But the mushrooms are the same, and so are their properties:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mrrCYQWosJI

http://www.youtube.com/v/A1dvRj953FM

http://www.youtube.com/v/qFUy5NMawtw

http://www.youtube.com/v/tLO2n3YMcXw
Zgrb

Amazing video!
jbang

#8: Me too, that was just a bit too phallic… and then the veil that fell down.

Alien cocks is all I can think of. And i really wish it wasn’t.
prepost

The track is ‘Delta’ by Higher Intelligence Agency, from their 1993 album ‘Colourform’.
jackie31337

Wow, I’ve always found fungus slightly creepy even when it wasn’t animated. Watching it in time lapse really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

On a somewhat related note, I think I must have seen too many time lapse videos of flowers growing/blooming as a kid, because I kept trying to “bloom” the flowers in my mom’s garden by unfolding the buds. Strangely, there were never petals curled up inside waiting to pop out….
ToastyKen

“My, what a yummy slime mold!” :)