Awesome Time Lapse

This time-lapse video from Hagerty Classic Cars celebrates the Chevy small-block V8, one of the greatest and most versatile engines ever made. With the help of Thirlby Automotive, they rip one down, then rebuild it like new. (Thanks Justin!)

Ofer Rozenman took a trip across eastern Europe with his wife and friends, and along the way he managed to snap 8,000+ beautifully composed photos to create this far above average time-lapse of their journey. The track is Big Jet Plane.

By using prefab modules, a Chinese construction company completed a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days, sometimes at a rate of three floors per day. Their reduced use of concrete means it’s more eco-friendly as well. Time-lapse at 1:53.

Graffiti artist Sofles collaborated with Juddy Roller Studio, Grant Osborne and Opiuo to augment his 5-story mural in Melbourne, Australia with projection mapping and live music. Video by Selina Miles.

Like Slow Life, Sandro Bocci’s …Meanwhile… is a collection of close up time-lapse videos of corals, sponges and other peculiar marine animals. Equal parts beautiful and horrifying. We’re not gonna say they’re aliens, but they’re aliens.

Mold can be really nasty stuff. It can ruin buildings, foods, and make people deathly ill. But viewed through photographer Nick Lariontsev’s extreme zoom lens, it looks like the landscape of an alien planet. It also makes some tasty cheese.

Photographer Rob Whitworth wows us once again, creating an eye-popping journey to the city of Dubai, as seen through the lens of his incredible flow motion time-lapse process. Check out some additional footage in 4K here and here.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) continuously takes images of the sun at various wavelengths. These beautiful time-lapse videos are made of images captured by the spacecraft over the last five years.

Joe Capra aka Scientifantastic tests the $40,000 Phase One IQ180 medium format camera. Its 80mp sensor can take 10328×7760 images. Joe shows us just how much detail is in a 10k frame by zooming in and out of these time-lapse sequences.

YouTuber and farmer Derek Klingenberg made a massive Etch-A-Sketch with cows. The animals followed him as he dropped food from a truck, eventually forming a smiley face. A drone hovering above the field captured the video.

The hypnotic video for Never Knew by Irish musicians Sunken Foal and Si Schroeder was created by Kevin McGloughlin by capturing images while driving in a car, then manipulating them to distort our perceptions of time and space.

Germany’s Filmkooperation takes us inside the engine of a Porsche Carrera 3.2, tearing it down in preparation for a rebuild – and discovering a squirrel must have lived inside of it at some point. Also, it’s amazing how truly flat a flat-six is.

Photographer Lance Page creates a unique (and literal) spin on the astronomical time-lapse film, by synchronizing the movement of his camera with the position of the North Star, reminding us that it’s the Earth that’s turning, not the stars.

Videographer Selina Miles is back with another great graffiti video. This time she profiles scientist-turned-street artist Jurne, following him in the tunnels, tracks and rooftops of California as well as inside his studio.

A time-lapse of YouTuber RedKB solving the Over the Top, a 17x17x17 puzzle cube. Designed by Oskar Van Deventer, Over the Top is officially recognized as the world’s largest order Rubik’s Cube. Got eight hours to spare? Here.

Damp Design takes us on a tour of Norway like you’ve never seen it before, with all of the people, boats, cars and vacationers looking like tiny ants. Sure, tilt-shift photography is so 2012, but it’s really well executed here.

Focus Features shares the final scene of The Boxtrolls, in which Richard Ayoade and Nick Frost’s characters unknowingly break the fourth wall, reminding us that stop-motion animation is incredibly tedious.

Watchfinder & Co.’s Head Watchmaker Tony Williams will slowly but surely unhinge your lower jaw from your skull as he takes apart a Rolex Submariner. Then – get this – he successfully puts it back together. Tony, you da real MVP.

Behold our planet in its various beautiful states with astronaut Alexander Gerst’s time-lapses, which he took while he was aboard the International Space Station. Check out his tongue-in-cheek space Halloween pics here.

The Grand Canyon National Park Service shared this time-lapse of a temperature inversion at the beautiful canyon. Trapped by warm air, a huge mass of fog blanketed the canyon, ebbing and flowing like water at a beach.

YouTuber Greg Coffin shares how his Rhodesian Ridgeback Sophia has grown in the past three years, starting from when she was just a 2-month-old puppy. Also watch the entire video before you comment on Sophia’s calm demeanor.

LEGO builders in Sydney, Australia have erected an enormous christmas tree made from LEGO and Duplo bricks. The fake plastic tree measures 32.8 feet tall and weighs over 3.5 tons. It’s on display at the Pitt Street Mall through 12/26/14.

JamesTyrwhitt-Drake – who made the color-enhanced time-lapse of Earth – made this 4K animation of the Sun from over 17,000 images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The sound is based on the sun’s magnetic activity.