Seeing Beyond the Human Eye

Technology defies the boundaries of human perception. From photomicrography to astrophotography, size and distance are no longer barriers, and through slow-mo and timelapse, we are allowed to see time and humanity in a new light. Through our curiosity and thirst for the unknown, the beauty of the universe can now be explored beyond the limits of the naked eye.
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Super Mario 3D Chalk Art

Artist Chris Carlson creates a 3D sidewalk chalk masterpiece in this time-lapse video.
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Awesome Time Lapse Footage Of Bubbles

Soap bubbles, food coloring, and black ferrofluid have never looked more amazing. LINK, Via: Vimeo

Mushroom Madness

Watch slime molds and mushrooms grow in this time-lapse video. LINK: LiveLeak

Watch Brine Icicle form at the Bottom of the Sea

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Scientists in Antarctica used a time-lapse camera to capture the formation of a brinicle — an icicle made from brine. As the salty water sank, it froze, forming a spike of brine down to the seafloor. As it grew over several hours, the brinicle killed everything in its path, including numerous unlucky starfish.

Link -Via: Geekosystem | Via: Neatorama

The Unseen Sea

A collection of time lapses I took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year. LINK: Vimeo

Music by Nick Cave - Mary's Song from the Soundtrack of "Assassination of Jesse James"

Time Lapse One Hour at The airport

Elapsed time of heavy traffic. About one hour footage converted into 2:30 minutes. LINK: Youtube

Ark Hotel Construction time lapse building 15 storeys in 2 days

Level 9 Earthquake Resistance: diagonal bracing structure, light weight,
steel construction, passed level 9 earthquake resistance testing
6x Less Material: even though the construction materials are much
lighter(250kg/m2) than the traditional materials(over 1500kg/m2), the floors
and walls are solid with surefootedness, airtight and sound-proofing
5x Energy Efficient: 150mm thermal insulation for walls and roofs, triple
glazed plastic windows, external solar shading, heat insulation, fresh
air heat recovery, LED lighting, yearly HAVC A/C energy consumption
equivalent to 7 liters oil.
20x Purification: after 3 levels of purification, the purification efficiency
for fresh air reaches 95%-99.9%; air exchanged 1-2.5 times per hour, and
indoor air is 20x cleaner than out door air
1% Construction Waste: all components are factory made, construction
waste, mainly package materials, result from on site set-up only and
amount to 1% of the total weight of the building.
This is the first building in human history which combines almost all
environmental friendly, comfortable and secure elements. So, we call it:
Sustainable Building. LINK: Youtube, Via: Gizmodo

Fruit and Vegetable Decomposition, Time-lapse

74 days, 1 picture every 40 minutes, played back at 30 frames per second. LINK: Youtube

Time Lapse of Milky Way over Texas

The Panoramic image can be found at: Http://www.Flickr.com/Harles99

Time Lapse of the Milky Way over the skies of Wolfe Land Ranch, Beattie, TX. This time using a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens @ 11mm. LINK: Youtube

Painted Lady Butterflies Develop, Emerge in Time Lapse

Here we see the later life stages of several Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)Butterflies.

Once the caterpillars are mature, they suspend themselves upside-down, by attaching a body part called the "cremaster" to a silken pad on the twig, much like the way Velcro works.

In about 1 day, the caterpillar sheds its final skin to complete the pupation process. Inside the pupa, the caterpillar has essentially liquified itself into a soup of cells. During the next 12-14 days, metamorphosis takes place - the cells are "re-arranged" and transformed into the adult insect. For most of this process, there is no visible change on the outside, but as the final few days approach, the developing adult butterfly can be seen through the semi-transparent pupal case. The butterfly's wing colors and pattern can be seen to darken. Finally, the fully developed adult separates from the pupal shell about an hour before it emerges, a process called "eclosion".

Once the adult emerges, it takes only a few minutes to expand its wings by pumping a body fluid into the wings' vein structure. After a couple of hours, the fluid dries and hardens, leaving the wings rigid enough propel it in flight. LINK: Youtube

Timelapse Montage video by Mike Flores

Timelapse Montage video by Mike Flores. This may be removed according to the youtube post. LINK: Youtube

Incredible time lapse filming in forest - Shadows of the Sun - BBC

Spectacular slow motion and time lapse photography take us into the heart of the forest as the sun brings to life an array of plants and wildlife. Amazing natural history clip from the BBC's Shadows of the Sun. LINK: Youtube

Timelapse of Sand Sculpture Masterpiece

Master sand-carver John Gowdy re-creates the beheading of Anne Boleyn. LINK: Youtube

Time-Lapse of 1200 lbs. of Cheese Carved

Champion cheese carver Troy Landwehr recently transformed a 1200 pound block of cheddar cheese into the Statue of Liberty. The entire process is captured with time-lapse.
Music: The Sweet Nothings "Bedridden". LINK: Youtube

Amazing Northern Lights Time Lapse

The Northern Lights are one of nature's most spectacular visual phenomena, and in this time lapse video they provide a breathtaking display of light, shape, and color over the course of a single night in Norway. LINK: Youtube

Time-Lapse Video of the Earth Rotating Under an Astronaut

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Astronaut and educator Don Pettit recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It shows day turning into night as the Earth rotates beneath him.

Via: Radley Balko, Via: Neatorama

Time-Lapse Video of Asteroid Discoveries for the Past 30 Years

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This time-lapse video by YouTube user szyzyg shows asteroids in our solar system as they have been discovered since 1980:

Notice now the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit, most discoveries are made in the region directly opposite the Sun. You’ll also notice some clusters of discoveries on the line between Earth and Jupiter, these are the result of surveys looking for Jovian moons. Similar clusters of discoveries can be tied to the other outer planets, but those are not visible in this video.

As the video moves into the mid 1990’s we see much higher discovery rates as automated sky scanning systems come online. Most of the surveys are imaging the sky directly opposite the sun and you’ll see a region of high discovery rates aligned in this manner.

At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. These new observations are the result of the WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) which is a space mission that’s tasked with imaging the entire sky in infrared wavelengths.

Astronomers have so far found about half a million minor planets in our solar system.

Via: Popular Science, Via: Neatorama

Time Lapse of Guy Walking Across America

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From New York across Indiana, Illinois, South Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Nevada to California, a film crew with a Canon 5D followed a guy on a long walk across the U.S. Thanks to some amazing stop motion photography, you can see the journey that took just a couple of weeks in under two minutes.
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"Floating Point"

"Floating Point" is a lovely time-lapse video by photographer Samuel Cockedey. By now the conventions of this type of video are pretty well established: The high perspective (usually urban), the moody music (usually electronic), the onrushing clouds, the streaming traffic. (Remember "The Sandpit"?) But Cockedey adds an element that a lot of others don't: A prominent credit line overlaying the bottom right corner of the video. It's his absolute right to safeguard his work in any manner he sees fit, of course. But the thing is so distracting that it ends up, for me at least, marring the experience. And it raises a question I can't immediately answer: When there's a clash between making a creative work and protecting its provenance, which one is more important? LINK, Via: Vimeo