There’s something that’s immensely satisfying about watching how neatly and easily this Plasti Dip spray-on car coating peels off in big sheets when you want to change the color of your car on a whim. The process starts at 1:15, and took about 1/2 hour in real time.
YouTuber How to Make Everything spent half a year making a sandwich. Like really making one: he either grew or made the components from scratch or gathered them by hand. It was worth it. For us. Longer clips here.
Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh wanted to create an accurate scale model of our solar system, since it turns out existing models cheat to make things easier to visualize. The finished product required time, planning, seven miles of dry lake bed, and a mountain of creativity.
Time-lapse footage of artist Kim Jung Gi (NSFW link) as he creates an intricate wall-sized illustration. The level of detail he achieves with no visual frame of reference is staggering. Every time you think he’s done, he adds more to the canvas. More on YouTube.
YouTuber FrontYardVideo captured a monarch butterfly’s metamorphosis from a larva, into a pupa and finally into an adult. It’s one of the animal kingdom’s most wonderful life cycles, perhaps second only to David Bowie’s.
This incredible 4K time-lapse by Toby Smith was taken aboard the Gunhilde Maersk, a large container ship, as it makes its way from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Ningbo, China. The visual spectacle that plays out before us more than makes up for the lack of sound.
Nature photographer Luke Taylor made this time-lapse video of last July’s second full moon from his hometown of Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. He shot this about 3 miles away from the lighthouse in the video. Music by Jessica Roemischer.
South Korea food blogger ROK On! Spent a total of three years shooting, traveling and editing for this amazing collection of day-to-night transitions from various rooftops and other high vantage points in Seoul.
There are tons of tilt-shifted, time-lapse videos out there, but the tiny toy effect is especially effective in this video by Darwinfish105, as he makes the airplanes and ground crews at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport look like living miniatures.
Director Patrick Weldon of Figurehead Media House created this stunning motion time-lapse, that starts with simple images of farmland, but gradually escalates into an ocular feast of night skies, cityscapes, and awe-inspiring locales.
To demonstrate the power of abrasive cutting discs from 3M, they gradually sanded away an entire motorcycle engine, layer-by-layer, until half of the engine was gone. Or play it backwards to watch the world’s fastest 3D printer.
Two Audiovisual Media students from Stuttgart Media University spent two weeks in Iceland to make this 4K time lapse video, featuring the island nation’s stunning landscapes and some of its wildlife.
Photographer darwinfish105 turned Tokyo International Airport into a calming sight by miniaturizing and speeding up the hustle and bustle in and around it. I Am Robot and Proud’s Summer Colour also helped set the tone.
Photographer Jeff Boyce shot over 70,000 images to create this impressive time-lapse video of storms, stars and skies. No fancy hyperlapse, no quick cuts or zooms. Just a sharp and steady eye watching nature do its thing.
At the end of 2014 Sebastian Linda quit his jobs, got married then traveled to Sri Lanka. This hyperlapse video not only preserves their honeymoon, but a rumination of how one’s present state can redefine their past.
Photographer and cinematographer Beno Saradzic made this haunting short film out of several time-lapse sequences shot separately over several months at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Redditor disillusioned shares this time-lapse of their Golden Retrievers Colby and Blue running to their food bowls, starting from when they were about 2 months old up until they were 9 months old. Now we want a dog drifting game.
Timestorm Films had just finished shooting at a volcano in Chile when Calbuco erupted. They quickly set up all of their cameras and captured 4K and 8K time-lapses of Calbuco’s ash and smoke spreading in the sky.
Dubai360’s interactive time-lapse of Dubai International Airport isn’t the first 360º video on YouTube, but it is the first to have a mind-boggling 4320p resolution. Requires Chrome or an Android device.
Truly mesmerizing time-lapse footage captured on foot and via a drone flying through London’s Crossrail project, in which a crew of over 10,000 excavated 26 miles of underground railway tunnels beneath London, England.
Astronauts are supplied a certain quantity of their food of choice to help keep their spirits up while at the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shows us how she makes her bonus food, a quinoa tortilla.
CAT recorded this time-lapse of the construction of one of their massive 50-foot-long, 600,000 lb., 4,000 hp 797 mining trucks – a vehicle so big that its assembly must be completed at the job site. There’s no audio, so feel free to hum a tune.
EarthCam presents one of the longest time spanning time-lapses you’ll ever see. Watch One World Trade Center’s 11-year construction – from October 2004 to May 2015 – in under 2 minutes.
