Awesome Time Lapse

TechFeed associate producer Todd Boudreaux talks about his life with the help of an Etch A Sketch. It took him about 9 hours to complete the drawings. A simple and honest story with lots of funny drawings in between.

The TLC200 Pro automatically shoots time-lapse videos, whether in strong or low lighting conditions thanks to its high dynamic range and large pixel size image sensor. Its CS mount lets you swap lenses (sold separately).

Alex Chacon’s adventure of a lifetime. He traveled from his home in Texas to Argentina, up to Alaska and back to Texas – a 75,000mi trip that lasted over 500 days. More on his website. Image from Alex’s Facebook page.

Watch the Airigami team assemble one of their latest creations at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. It’s a 20-foot balloon acrocanthosaurus, accompanied by balloon plants and insects. More photos here.

YouTuber Cassandra Brooks talks about her time aboard the USAP research ship Nathaniel B. Palmer. The images were taken over a two-month period as the ship sailed, crunched and rammed its way through Ross Sea in Antarctica.

Joey Shanks and PBS Digital Studios shot time-lapse videos of a “thinking putty” – magnetic silly putty – as it seemingly comes alive and devours magnetic objects. Watch it regurgitate them in the reverse video here.

Now you can make your own time lapse or hyperlapse video without shooting a second of footage. Teehan+Lax Labs made a web app that uses images captured by Google Street View to stitch your own video together.

While we’ve seen numerous time-lapse videos of the Aurora Borealis, photographer Göran Strand’s polar-mapped take on the genre is new to us. Edited from over 2400 raw images captured during a solar flare on 3/17/13.

Watch three months of time compressed down to 76 seconds, as Discovery captures the construction of the world’s largest ship, the Maersk Line’s 400m long Triple-E vessel, assembled in Okpo, Korea.

We like Samuel Orr’s four minute time-lapse because 1) the film was dynamically distilled from 100,000+ photos; and, frankly, 2) it’s fun to see 24 hours unfold in the greatest city in the world.

Factoria made this time-edited tilt-shift video of their 7,500km (~4,700mi) train ride from Beijing, China to Moscow, Russia on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The song is Mongol Nutag by Sedaa.

Anna Possberg’s dramatic time-lapse of both urban and natural beauty found in the landscapes of Iceland, including some of the most spectacular Aurora Borealis footage we’ve laid eyes on.

An incredible engineering feat in Zurich, Switzerland as a construction crew puts the 6800+ ton MFO building on tracks and moves it down the block. Time-lapse by Patrick Gautschy. (Thanks Rostek!)

The NRK recorded the 10-hour, 453mi Nordland Railway ride once per season and then mashed up the footage to make a pseudo-time lapse video. You can also watch each 10-hour ride. Or two at once.

A unique demolition method called Taisei Ecological Reproduction gradually dismantles a building one a floor at a time from the inside. It might take a while before they get all the way to the bottom though.

A time-lapse video made by Giacomo Sardelli using images from NASA and messages from astronauts, urging us to work together to realize what they see: one planet without borders. Subtitles here.

Vimeographer Jean-Michel chanced upon this spider weaving a web and decided to document the process. He used a Nikon D4 in time-lapse mode, shooting once every 4 secs. for about 1-1/2 hours.

An awesome hyperlapse – a time-lapse video with lots of pans and rotations – of Guangzhou city in China, showing both its modern and traditional sights. Made by zweizwei. Best watched full-screen.

A time-lapse video of Switzerland by photographer Alessandro Della Bella.The sheer number of locations Della Bella shot from and his long exposure shots near the end are breathtaking.

It’s quite a sight to watch the beauty spill out of Agnes Cecile’s brushes in this sped up video of her painting a captivating face. There’s more clips of her great work on her Youtube page.

By tweaking the of footage of planes landing at London’s Heathrow Airport to 17x normal speed, Cargospotter created an strange, mesmerizing illusion that makes the jumbo jets look like toys.

Inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty LA photo book, Ross Ching started Empty America, a series of time lapse videos showing various cities with no person in sight. Making-of video here. First video here.

GOTM Films shot over 80,000 photos of the Grand Canyon over the course of 7 weeks. Their goal was to show the scope of the natural wonder. We think they succeeded. The song is Don’t Waste by Figgy.