Awesome Time Lapse

Eirik Solheim follows up his 2008 video with One Year in 120 Seconds, this time shooting 2009 in full motion thanks to a new Canon 5D Mark II and 30 second video clips.

Liberty City is nowhere near as crowded as NYC, but that ain’t a bad thing: Grand Theft Auto IV looks remarkably realistic and (dare we say) livable in this hypnotic 15-day time lapse.

Kiel Johnson’s giant Cardboard Twin-Lens Reflex Camera looks cool enough as he builds it in the time-lapse video above, but here’s what wowed us: it actually takes pictures.

Burning Man has always been strange even by attendee’s standards, but this time lapse really highlights its surreal nature–from dusty daylight shots to dazzling night scenes.

What do you do when you destroy your original car? You build a new one in less than 24 hours: this time-lapse shows the Patron Highcroft ALMS team building an Acura LMP1 racecar.

Hong Kong gets walloped by four successive rain walls between 7 am and 9 pm from June 2009’s Typhoon Nangka in this beautiful time-lapse video; it was shot on a Canon 50D.

Tom of Timescapes’ Mountain Light takes time-lapse photography to stunning heights; he mounts his Canon 5D II on dollies to do ridiculously cool panning shots. Thanks, Rob!

Nathan Sawaya’s LEGO cello not only is roughly the size of a real cello, but can be played, too–just don’t’ expect it to sound like one; watch the time lapse, brick-by-brick video above.

Visual editor Michael Bartolomeo’s Cross Country Timelapse is a near continuous recording of his drive from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.; a picture is taken every 10 seconds.

The tilt shift thing has be done to death, but this Tokyo video’s blend of time lapse gives the megalopolis a miniaturized feel; anybody else getting the urge to go Godzilla on it?

It’s not the official video for Death Cab for Cutie’s “Little Bribes”, but this kickass video by Ross Ching should be; its a masterful blend of time lapse, stop motion, and live action tricks.

We’ve seen plenty of time-lapse videos, but Static: Pulse is one of our favorites, if only for its subject: shot on Canon 350D and 5Ds, Tokyo comes to life in this video set to “Edge to Life.”

Shot at the 2009 Texas Star Party, this stunning time lapse shows the Milky Way in all its awe-inspiring beauty; it was taken with a Canon EOS-5D, fisheye lens and 20-40s exposures.