Awesome Time Lapse

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.

A collection of timelapse, hyperlapse and tilt-shift photography by Ben Wiggins. Wiggins was able to capture motion without sacrificing detail. The song is The Alley by DeVotchKa. Best watched full-screen.

Buddhist monks spend days creating an intricate mandala using colored sands. Once complete, they destroy their masterwork in seconds, symbolizing the impermanence of life. More here.

A commercial pilot captures a week’s worth of flying from the perspective of the cockpit, condensing numerous take-offs, landings, and bugs on the windshield into a hypnotic 8-minute clip.

Henry Jun Wah Lee went to California’s Joshua Tree National Park and Ancient Bristlecone Forest to capture the Perseid meteor shower this past August, but our planet put on quite a show as well.

Artist Patrick Vale draws the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building. It took Vale about 5 days on and off to finish the drawing. The song is Moanin’ by Charles Mingus.

Joe Simon used a Canon 5D Mk. III to shoot this time-lapse of the world famous city, a gem formed out of both the mountains and the sea. The song is An Ocean Tumbled By by Lowercase Noises.

A guy with a knack for changing his hairdos, facial hair (and t-shirts) snapped a still of himself every day over the course of five years, then assembled his ever-changing look into a 4-minute time-lapse.

It took Marc Donahue and Sean Michael Williams a total of 6 months to film this medley music video. That’s about 6 to 8 hours of work for 3 to 4 seconds of footage. Watch Part 1 here.

Los Angeles is not a cold, dead place. The latest time-lapse video from photographer Colin Rich highlights the energy of the city from sunup to sundown. The song is Echoes of Mine by M83.

No matter what your opinion of the megafest is, you have to hand it to the Lollapalooza organizers for getting the capacity crowd out of the path of this dangerous storm and safely back to raging.