Awesome Time Lapse

Guillaume Juin created this eye-popping time-lapse short film by editing together thousands of high resolution images taken by the crew of the International Space Station between 2011 and 2014. Best watched in full screen, high def.

YouTuber karenxcheng demonstrates the donut selfie. It’s a series of short clips that you take by moving your phone’s camera around your head, creating a close up pseudo-time lapse. The hypnotized expression is optional.

Leonardo Dalessandri presents his 20-day, 2200mi trip across Turkey in this dizzying yet seamless time-lapse compilation. Like most travel videos, there is no single screenshot that can represent what Leonardo captured.

Freedivers Francisco and Armando del Rosario aka The Ocean Brothers appear to walk, meditate and fly underwater with the help of unorthodox camera angles in this award-winning video.

Cy Kuckenbaker used his mesmerizing time collapse trick to showcase the skills of 15-year old pro skater Cory Juneau and promote the Nokia Lumia 930. It took 6 weeks to edit the 90-second video. Behind the scenes here.

Photographer Gavin Heffernan’s time-lapse film offers a frenetic look at life at night in Los Angeles. We especially love the bright lights and motion in the driving sequences, whether viewed from inside of a car or high above the roads below.

A time-lapse of illustrator Seok Jeong Hyeon aka Stonehouse painting portraits of a woman at various stages of her life, from birth to death. The software is Corel Painter 11. The song is Big Screen by Silent Partner.

Riots, paintings, stars and illusions abound in this time-lapse short film about “the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing.” Artist Jeff Frost spent a total of two years taking and editing over 300,000 photos for the film.

We’ve seen several fun things from Chris Carlson, and the hits keep on coming, this time in the form of an anamorphic 3D painting of a SkeeBall game, with some fun time lapse and stop-motion.

The persistence and dedication shown by YouTuber dumo to snap a picture of himself every day for eight years straight is impressive, as is the gradual evolution of his face as he matured – and got more handsome – from 2006 to 2014.

Michelle Sugar Art worked through the night to create the world’s first cake billboard. Made for Mr. Kipling, the billboard measured 20′ x 10′ and contained 13,360 cakes, many of which were eaten by passersby. More here.

Photographer Thomas Schwarz uses the bright lights of the Midway as the light source for this dizzying time-lapse visit to a theme park that’s sure to wake you up from whatever stupor you might find yourself in from surfing the web.

This amazing new iOS app from Instagram lets you capture impressive “hyperlapse” moving time-lapse videos with your iPhone or iPad. It’s easy to use, lets you vary playback speed, and stabilizes images for cinematic quality.

Patrick Cheung and Brandon Ho spent about a year making one of the most impressive time-lapse videos we’ve ever seen. Patrick made it seem like Brandon was standing still as the scenery around him moved and evolved.

Photographer Paul Richardson spent three weeks in Paris. After a total of 400 hours of work, he finished this intense time-lapse of the French capital, presenting the city as a lively metropolis with equal parts history and progress.

Joe Capra has captured the most beautiful scenery from the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia in this stunning time-lapse. There are lots of cool helicopter shots and we also like how none of the folks on their SUPs fall down at 1:57.

Capturing adventures on GoPro can be fun, but the raw video can be too long. You can time-lapse it, but the footage is a jumpy mess. Microsoft’s R&D team is working on “Hyperlapse” tech which smooths out the bumps digitally after the fact.

Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban explorer JT Singh are back with another impressive motion time-lapse video, this time capturing North Korea’s seldom explored capital city, revealing a vibrant city that defies stereotypes.

A dramatic time-lapse demonstration of the fermentation process in the making of Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot Ale, with massive batches of bubbling hops, yeast and wort rising and falling on their way to becoming delicious beer.

Like Laurin Döpfner, Simon Gerbaud became obsessed with destroying objects neatly, exposing their insides and cross-sections bit by bit until all that’s left is dust, only to play the footage back to make the objects whole.

Enrique Pacheco showcases some of nature’s finest artworks: rock formations, caves, canyons and other landscapes molded through erosion. They are beautiful accidents many thousands of years in the making.

Photographer Vincent Brady combined images captured from multiple cameras to create what is possibly the most mind-bending time-lapse video we’ve ever seen. The way the sky twists and flows is just mesmerizing.

Surfing highlight reels make the sport seem incessantly exciting, but in reality there’s a lot of downtime in between rides. Cy Kuckenbacker came up with a middle ground, presenting an hour of surfing footage all at once.