Awesome Time Lapse

Nature. It’s disgusting. Watch in amazement and horror as numerous ants devour this recently-deceased gecko over the course of 38 hours, and captured as a time-lapse.

A time-lapse video of various European cities taken by David Smith using a Nikon D7000 with a Tokina 11-16mm lens. List of cities here. The song is Journey’s End by Blackmill.

Artist DuksArts used his creative skills and Photoshop to create this awesome illustration of The Dark Knight in about three hours. Here, we see the whole process boiled down to 3 minutes.

Watch an illusion come alive before your eyes in this time lapse video by Mike Larremore, showing Chris Carlson making a 3D chalk drawing of Mario and a NES controller. Dat D-Pad o__o.

A time-lapse video showing how Alexander Koshelkov put together this 1920 x 1080 wallpaper using Photoshop. It took him 4 hours, 17 minutes, and 244 layers to create this dramatic image.

A collection of time-lapse videos of landscapes, ancient landmarks and the night sky. Sean F. White compiled the images over a period of 6 years, traveling to 24 countries across all 7 continents.

It took Daniel Navarrete a year and over 30,000 individual photos to create this time-lapse video, but it does a great job sharing the experience of Disneyland – without having to wait in long lines.

A time-lapse look back at the last 7 years of construction of the new tower at One World Trade Center as it starts from nothing and just this week became the tallest building in New York.

Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte every week, starting from when she was born until she turned 12. Watch her grow and become more talkative and comfortable in front of the camera.

Fender gives us a time-lapse view of how its manufacturing facility in Corona, California makes the company’s world famous Stratocaster guitar. The song is Dangerous Madness by Wayne Kramer.

Alex Rivest assembled publicly available videos and images gathered by the NASA Johnson Space Center to create this time-lapse video showing the lights both above and on our planet.

A proud couple chronicles the development of their baby before she was born by taking time-lapse pictures of her mother’s growing belly. If only giving birth was that easy.

Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty’s Project Yosemite captures the majestic park in time lapse and shows us how to make friends; they were strangers before Vimeo. (Thanks Jeremiah!)

We’ve seen OhiseeRED use a basketball to paint. This time she uses a coffee cup, making ring-shaped stains to paint a portrait of Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou. It took her 12 hours to finish it.

You may recall Antony Gormley’s sculptures. Turns out he supersized things in 2010, erecting an 85 foot-tall metal man in the Dutch town of Lelystad. We wonder how tall he’d be if he stood up.

Similarly to his unpeeled tangerine painting, artist Duane Keiser makes omelettes art from his broken egg in this progressive, time-lapse painting, shot one day at a time, then animated.

Another eye-popping compilation from Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou. This time he used 179 time-lapse and tilt-shift videos taken from all over the world. The song is Wolf by First Aid Kit.

Alex Cherney waited two years for the perfect conditions to take images of the Southern lights. The stunning mass of stars and meteorites is a wonderful bonus. Music by Psychadelik Pedestrian.

Using only a basketball and bucket of red paint, artist OhiseeRED paints a rather impressive likeness of Yao Ming – though she doesn’t have enough paper to render all 7 foot 6 inches of him.

Never leave your bike out overnight in the big city. Despite that, Red Peak and Hudson Urban Bicycles wanted to see what would happen if they left a bike locked up for 365 days in NYC’s Soho district.

An HDR time-lapse video by the Pentalunex Team. It was shot using a Canon EOS 350D and a 500D camera and the ChronoCon, the group’s custom made dolly slider. The song is Intro by The XX.

Chinese manufacturing company Broad Group built a 30-story hotel in 15 days – with the works: furnishing, earthquake resistance, ventilation etc. – to promote their prefabricated modular buildings.

Kien Lam spent almost an entire year traveling around the world. He made this time-lapse video to chronicle his 17-country journey. The soundtrack is an original composition by his brother William.