Vocanic Time Lapse

This set of time lapse videos is extremely well done. It pains me that this event is so close to where I live and yet because of the location I'm unable to capture any of it. I would certainly be doing time lapse imagery if I could get in there however.

Enjoy!

Friday Night Movie

It's been a while since the last one of these, I know. Enjoy!

TIMEDRIFT II from Martin Heck | Timestorm Films on Vimeo.

World Outside a Window

Cool stuff!

Leftovers!

Something of comet ISON actually survived the trip around the sun! Yesterday during the Google+ Hangout session with NASA scientists the outcome looked bleak. In fact many of them predicted doom but justified it by saying that "comets are notoriously unpredictable". That may be... but the pictures don't lie. Something made the passage. Now it remains to be seen if anything is out there for viewing come the first few weeks of December. If so look to the same eastern skies before sunrise.

Comet ISON

Tomorrow we eat turkey (in the USA). But our sun may eat comet ISON when it makes its close approach. Will it survive? Will ISON break up? We'll see. By the way... there are actually two comets in this video. The smaller second one is comet Encke.



And for those of you in the USA traveling today to see family and loved ones... be safe and have a great holiday!

Nuclear Testing

This should give us all a moment of pause. It's a graphical diary of every nuclear explosion that has been set off from the first Manhattan Project "Trinity" test in 1945 through Pakistan's tests in 1998. The only ones missing are North Korea's three alleged tests this decade. How many confirmed blasts have there been so far in total? A: 2,053.

Produced by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto.

Pixelstick Light Painting

Have you ever tried light painting a photograph? Have you ever wanted to? If you have a few hundred bucks burning a hole in your 2013 Christmas gift budget a couple of enterprising Kickstarter guys have something that just might just take your photography, "I'd like to be able to do that", wish list to a whole new level.

Deadline for ordering now is Dec 13, 2013. Estimated delivery is May 2014. Every Kickstarter project is a risk, but I've been involved in five (5) so far and every one has delivered exactly what I expected. YMMV.

For more information be sure to visit the Kickstarter pixelstick - Light painting evolved webpage.

Official San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Time-Lapse

This may be an ultimate, "How It's Made", episode... for those who have seen that program on USA television. If your internet connection can handle it be sure and watch this at full 1080p and full screen and marvel at what has been done. The time-lapse video shows in 4 minutes what cost taxpayers roughly $6.5B over the past 5 years. As of this writing the construction is finally nearing completion.



More images of the construction and information on the design is currently available in the Autodesk Gallery.

Wordless Wednesday

not any colour (another Dubai timelapse?) from Richard Bentley on Vimeo.

Amazing workmanship.

Midtown

MIDTOWN from Drew Geraci (District 7 Media) on Vimeo.

I'm a huge fan of time lapse photography, and when it's as well done as this short film is by District 7 Media, LLC, it's a real treat. Shot over the course of 6 months and comprising over 50,000 still images, the challenges to get this completed at all were formidable. The results were well worth the effort however. Here in a a little over two short minutes is a slice of life at the heart of the city that never sleeps.