Over the past decade I have visited the Moab, Utah area seven times and have fallen in love with the entire southern Utah landscape. I created this video love letter to let Moab know how much I appreciate the beauty of her landscape and the dark skies above. By Ron Risman

We've featured the stunning work of filmmaker Ron Risman before. His latest time-lapse video captures the changing sky above the plains.

Image: Courtesy Ron Risman

When Ron Risman posted a photo of the Whaleback Lighthouse in New Hampshire, a commenter accused him of ganking a photo just posted by Eric Gendron. When Risman saw Gendron's photo, he suspected he had ganked him: the two shots were seemingly identical. — Read the rest

Videographer Ron Risman, who we've featured on Boing Boing many times, specializes in nature and night sky time lapse video (and also conducts workshops). This time, Ron made a gorgeous video of the Southwestern US.

As I nod off at my desk I begin to day dream about the breathtaking beauty of the American Southwest.

We've run the stunning time-lapse videos of Ron Risman here before, and we never get tired of watching them. His latest is called Arroutada.

"The film was captured between March 31st and April 18th of this year while driving over 2000 miles and capturing over 26,000 still images for the film," he says. — Read the rest

Photographer Ron Risman runs timelapse video workshops and the results are transcendent. Here's his latest, called "Dark Skies of Utah." Ron said to me:

"Dark Skies of Utah" was captured by eleven photographers last month in Utah during a 5-day Timelapse workshop.

Photographer Ron Risman taught a group of newbies how to create timelapse photography. Here are the dramatic results of the four-day workshop.

Moab, Utah is not only home to hundred's of natural arches, it's also home to incredibly dark skies – making it an ideal spot to capture footage of the night sky.

Gabriel and Sarah Chrisman of Port Townsend, Washington wear Victorian style outfits every day. They run a website called This Victorian Life, which chronicles their "long-term experiential study of culture and technologies of the late nineteenth-century." They don't have cell phones or watch television. — Read the rest

Alex Ringis in Australia has been observing coverage of the "Red Shirt" protests in Thailand in recent days. Word on the street was that the anti-government protesters mixed up many tons of fish sauce (a stinky fermented condiment, like soy sauce only fishy-foul) and human feces as a sort of homemade non-lethal weapon. — Read the rest

The British government has scrapped a(n insane) plan to bring "airport style" security measures to the nation's train stations — a plan that would have required the millions who board the overland rail system every day to have their bags X-rayed, go through metal detectors (and, presumably, remove their shoes and get rid of their liquids). — Read the rest

LA officials are looking into potential legal falllout from an officer's use of the LAPD computer network to get data about celebrities. The city recently paid the officer's ex-girlfriend $387,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging that he used police computers to investigate her and hundreds of others, and sold the data to tabloids for a tidy profit. — Read the rest