Awesome Time Lapse

The storm chasing group Basehunters was able to capture a supercell as it formed, grew and grew some more, until it eventually dissipated in Wyoming. Check out their YouTube page for more awesome videos of extreme weather.

Tommy Haffey just happened to have 626,780 pennies lying around, so he did what any sane adult would do with his spare change, and built himself a world-record breaking pyramid from all of the coins. And much wine was consumed.

What if mankind disappeared? Menilmonde extend the creepy concept that they started with Hypocentre in Para l l el, showing different cities around the world devoid of people. Very unsettling. Watch the making of here.

Watching Saturday Night Live on TV, it seems like they have limitless spaces to shoot in, but in this time-lapse from the Anna Kendrick/Pharrell Williams episode, you get a much better sense of how confining Studio 8H really is.

Daniel Stoupin shows corals and sponges brimming with life in this artificial time-lapse. Daniel focus stacked 150,000 shots to make the video. Thank Daniel by donating to the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

Photographer Vincent Brady made these time-lapse clips of fireflies at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri as well as in Grand Ledge, Michigan. One of the more unusual uses of the technique we’ve seen. You can buy stills on Vincent’s site.

It’s an annual St. Paddy’s Day tradition here in Chicago – turning the normally brownish-green Chicago River into a bright green spectacle. This short time-lapse video by Peter Tsai does a great job capturing how it’s done.

The second installment of Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty’s time-lapse series Project Yosemite. They spent a combined 45 days in the park to shoot the images in this video. The song is M83’s Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun.

The Sledgehammer-esque music video for Talk is Cheap, by electronica artist Nicholas James Murphy aka Chet Faker, from his album Built on Glass. Toby & Pete made Chet live through four seasons in pseudo-time lapse stop-motion.

Another stunning time-lapse clip painstakingly shot by photographer Randy Halverson, Huelux explores the skies over South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah. We had no idea you could see such spectacular aurora in this part of the world.

Cliff Maynard created this image of renown pot smoker Willie Nelson entirely from the burnt roach papers from the butts of joints. He’s also made Bob Marley and Snoop Dogg among others. Prints limited to an edition of 420, natch.

A musical twist to long term time-lapse portraits. Matt Perren took pictures of himself every day for three years. Then he put the images together in such a way that his past selves appear to be lip-syncing to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now.

A typical commercial flight as seen from the point of view of pilots, mechanics and other airline crew. This amazing time-lapse POV video was captured by engineer Lionel Rabaud and his friends for Air Tahiti Nui.

Eclectic Asylum Art spent a total of 50 hours making this realistic portrait of Santa Claus on Microsoft Paint. It’s not as jaw dropping as Kyle Lambert’s iPad finger painting, but come on. It’s freaking Microsoft Paint.

Time-lapse footage of one of nature’s more unusual and somewhat disgusting processes, as a giant spider crab discards its old shell to make way for a new one to grow. Jump to 0:53 in the video for the big reveal.

Cy Kuckenbacker continues his San Diego Studies series. This time he compressed and edited a four-minute shot of San Diego traffic, reorganizing the passing vehicles according to their color. More here.

French architect Jean Prouvé designed prefab homes back in the 1930s & 40s. To prove how amazing these homes were, art dealer Patrick Sequin disassembled one of his homes, packed it up, and had it reassembled it at Design Miami.

Artist Kyle Lambert used the Procreate app on his iPad to make an incredibly realistic painting. It’s a replica of a photographed portrait of Morgan Freeman taken by Scott Gries. It took Kyle over 200 hours to finish the portrait.

As we already know, an abandoned building, graffiti artist Sofles and videographer Selina Miles make for an awesome time-lapse video. Also featuring artists Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench. The songs are by DJ Butcher.

Jim Wolf is a U.S. Army Veteran who fell on hard times, struggling with alcoholism and homelessness. In this video, he goes through a physical makeover which we can only hope is the start of a larger transformation of his life.

A mesmerizing and intriguing time-lapse of the Mauna Kea Observatories by Sean Goebel. The bright beams of light are lasers used to adjust the telescopes. The song is All is Violent, All is Bright by God is an Astronaut.

Paris, France with barely a living soul in sight. Menilmonde erased people out of their footage using video editing software. As if that wasn’t creepy enough, they added ominous images and machine translated voices to the video.

The Seventh Movement captured the size, energy and the relentless pace of New York City with their amazing time-lapse. The song is Monsieur Adi’s remix of Rumble and Sway by Jamie N Commons. More on the video here.