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Timelapse of Boston's nemopocalypse

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:13:15 +0000

jere7my sez, "I pointed my camera out my dining room window for 30 hours of Nemo in Boston, from the start of precipitation on Friday to the end of Saturday's cleanup, and condensed it all down to a minute. Enjoy this wintry timelapse! That's me waving at the camera for a few frames around 0:33."

Nemo Timelapse

Death Valley Dreamlapse at peak of 2012 Geminid meteor shower

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:01:22 +0000

A beautiful time-lapse of the starry, Gemenids meteor filled skies over Death Valley, California. From Gavin Heffernan of Sunchaser Pictures.

More about the making of:

After the great response to SUNCHASER STAR TRAILS, my brave team and I trekked to the world-famous Eureka Dunes in Death Valley National Park to search for some of the darkest skies on Earth. Despite temps below freezing, we went on December 13th, 2012 – the night of the Geminid Meteor Shower Peak, and a time of great planetary alignment. Armed only with boxed wine, firewood, and our DSLRs, we had to conquer epic climbs, sand roads with the 4x4 Jeep, and the occasional UFO!
But it was all worth it when the skies cleared and showed us an incredible galactic palette! Star Trails shot at 25 sec exposures. No special effects used, just the rotation of the earth's axis. Photography Merging: STARSTAX. Used Canon 5D & 7D, with a 24mm/1.4 lens and a 28mm/1.8. The Geminids get crazy as the sun comes up (2:20-2:35) but you can spot a bunch more throughout, if you look closely -- or here's a nice shot. There's also some passing planets (1:15-1:30 and 2:15-2:25). I think these are Jupiter and Mars(?), but maybe some smart astronomer out there can verify?
The "UFO" appears at (1:30-1:35) and makes three broad circular sweeps over the desert. Though in timelapse it appears to be moving fast, consider the 5 seconds = about 50 minutes, so it's creeping. There was no sound, so it definitely wasn't a helicopter. Closer picture here. It can also be seen cutting through the circular star trails in the shot used above

Toronto Tempo: beautiful timelapse of Toronto's rhythms

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:04:21 +0000

"Toronto Tempo," a 3:42 timelapse video of Toronto captures the city's many iconic rhythms and gaits, from the subway's rocketing roar to the deceptive stillness of the lakeshore to the beetling crowds of the Eaton Centre and the St Lawrence Market. It's beautifully edited, even if it sports the obligatory ethereal timelapse music.

(via @davidakin)

Toronto Tempo [vimeo.com]

Timelapse of 3D printout of Stephen Colbert's head

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:05:04 +0000

Darren Barefoot sends us this link to a timelapse video of a MakerBot 3D printer extruding a copy of Stephen Colbert's head, noting, "John Biehler has a 3-D printer, an excellent photographic eye and whimsy."

Colbert timelapse (Thanks, Darren!)