Awesome Time Lapse

Photographer Samuel Cockedey’s title pays tribute to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with a time-lapse of Tokyo, set to the sounds of Blade Runner, the film Phillip K. Dick’s book inspired.

Another eye-popping time-lapse, this one shot in Iceland during the Summer, when the sun never sets, and light remains 24 hours-a-day. Shot by Joe Capra over 17 days and from 38,000 images.

Brinno’s wireless, waterproof TLC100 camera automatically captures 1280×1024 time-lapse shots onto your USB flash drive. Just set your interval, lock down the camera, wait, and out pops a video.

LEGO enthusiast Marshall Matlock assembles the LEGO Volkswagen T1 Camper van, giving us a neat view of the tiny details included in the set, from the moving engine parts to the retro curtains.

We’ve featured a plethora of awesome time-lapse scenes, but our eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets when we saw Dustin Farrell’s video, produced from raw stills from a Canon 5D2 DSLR.

An extraordinary view of the Northern and Southern Auroras captured from the ISS as it orbits the globe, making Earth look like some far-off alien planet. Another awesome clip here.

This time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station gives us a quick glimpse into what flying over the planet would be like. Full screen and HD are a must for this ride.

On a week-long trip from Seattle to Maine, YouTuber smithje77 programmed his Droid X camera to snap a still every 90 seconds during the 3,000 mile journey, and created this time-lapse.

Filmmaker Kim Pimmel’s short piece combines dish soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid, a macro lens and time lapse techniques to create something quite astounding. Can you believe it’s not digital?

The talented – and very diligent – Randy Halverson is back with another unbelievably amazing time lapse of the night sky, this time with bonus shots of storm clouds and lightning. Pictures here.

The movie industry’s biggest stars can often be seen in Los Angeles, but the city has other lights and sights that are dear to locals, as shown in this video by Colin Rich. Music by Cinematic Orchestra.

Over the course of the last year or so, Phillip Mendonça-Vieira accidentally captured 12,000 screenshots of the home page of the NYT, and decided to put them to good use.

Jeff Chen Kuo Chih spent eight consecutive nights capturing the night time scenery of Eastern Sierra –  forests, waterfalls and the magnificent Milky Way, on his Nikon D5100 and D3 cameras.

Too busy to take the time off to go on a cruise? That’s okay, if you can spare just 5 minutes out of your busy day, that’s all you’ll need to take the express 134 hour tour of Norway’s Hurtigruten.

Haboob (Arabic هبوب): a type of intense sandstorm. If you were in Phoenix on June 5, you got smacked with a big ol’ haboob. Mike Olbinski captured a nice time-lapse of the huge storm for the rest of us.

Alex Cherney’s award-winning time-lapse video is made from over 30 hours of night and early morning shots of the Australian ocean and sky. Makes us wish our eyes were as sharp as cameras.

Photographer Robert Lyons shot this footage of the lower Manhattan skyline constructed entirely from IKEA boxes. This behind-the-scenes footage is way cooler than the commercial they used it for.

Beno Saradzic’s glittering time lapse video of Abu Dhabi also gives us a history lesson; it takes us from the contributions Sheikh Zayed made in the past to the majestic metropolis it is now.

YouTuber bulletpeople edited the ESO time-lapse video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, turning it using the stars as fixed reference points to show the Earth’s movement.

While we wish this were a time-lapse of the actual moon, we’re still mesmerized by this silent animation of the moon going through a full year of phases. Best served with a side of Philip Glass.

Over the course of about a month, Photographer Josh Owens (aka “mindrelic”) shot this dizzying and dramatic time-lapse footage from various hotel balconies around New York City.

Dunder the dog goes from 8 weeks to a year-old in 45 seconds, with bonus pictures of the mutt in costume and with props. Watch it a second time and just stare at Dunder’s ears.

Time-lapse video of the Very Large Telescope array of the European Southern Observatory and the stunning sky over Paranal, Chile. Shot by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado.

Time-lapse video of the talented graffiti artist Jim Vision creating a 65-foot Tron: Legacy mural in London. The video was shot over 4 days using two Canon 5D MK 2 cameras and a 3D rig.

Time-lapse of the phenomenon known as the Midnight Sun, where the sun never quite sets and may be visible for 24 hours. This one was shot in the Arctic, but it also occurs in the Antarctic.

Compressing about 70 minutes of take-offs at Boston’s Logan International Airport into just over 2:30 makes it look like these airplanes are taking off just a little too close to each other for comfort.