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Awesome Time Lapse

Sub Zero Time Lapse

Sub Zero Time Lapse

Randy Halversen’s beautiful time lapse video of desolate sub-zero nights in South Dakota (with wind chills of -25) makes us thankful for the crummy forty degree weather we’re having here.

Year of the Beard

Year of the Beard

YouTuber cofauver grew a beard for 1 year and 6 weeks as part of a bet, and chronicled his transition from a clean-faced cub to a gruffy man, then wolfman, then statesman and beyond.

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The Chapel (HDR Timelapse)

The Chapel (HDR Timelapse)

The LookyCreative shot this time lapse of a dilapidated protestant temple in Poland using HDR imaging. The effect is strange, as if the chapel was CGI. Check out the “making of” video here.

Time Lapse Hotel Build

Time Lapse Hotel Build

Getting it done in China: swift workers completed the main structural components of the Ark Hotel in just 46 hours, and finished the building enclosure in 90 hours; that equals 2 minutes in YouTube land.

NYC Marathon Time-Lapse

NYC Marathon Time-Lapse

Cool time-lapse footage of this year’s New York City Marathon at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the starting point of the race since 1976. Bonus: helicopter hovering like a dragonfly at 0:17.

3 Years in 3 Minutes

3 Years in 3 Minutes

Ramon shot over 45,000 frames with his Pentax K 110D dSLR, starting in 2006, observing the slow and steady demolition of one building, then the construction of a new high-rise on the same site.

The Unseen Sea

The Unseen Sea

Simon Christen shot time-lapse videos of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the result speaks for itself. Nick Cave’s music helps a lot too. Go grab a cold one and watch the HD version in full screen.

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Inter//States: Tokyo Time-Lapse

Inter//States: Tokyo Time-Lapse

Samuel Cockedey’s time lapse video of Tokyo made us even more tired, but it’s still an interesting piece, proof of how mechanical the urban life can be. The airport shot in particular was amazing.

Earth from Space

Earth from Space

Shot by Don Pettit on the International Space Station, this stunning time-lapse view of our humble planet captures the Northern Lights in the sky as tiny dots from cities at night whir by below.

Time Lapse Volcano Imagery

Time Lapse Volcano Imagery

Frame after frame of meticulous, gorgeous camera work of the volcano in Iceland here in this video from talented filmmaker Sean Stiegemeier, taken a few weeks after the first eruption.

Time-Lapse Google Logo

Time-Lapse Google Logo

Watching this time-lapse video of London’s Google employees creating their company’s logo out of 884 photos makes us wonder how long it would take to do this in black and white for ourselves.

A History Of The Sky

A History Of The Sky

Ken Murphy’s A History Of The Sky is the coolest (and highest) time lapse we’ve ever seen: it’s 146 days simultaneously shown side-by-side, starting from sunrise to after sunset.

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Time Lapse: Book Cover

Time Lapse: Book Cover

Whoever said not to judge a book by its cover knows nothing about marketing: watch this fascinating time lapse video of the creation of a book cover for Gail Carriger’s Blameless.

Video: Lumitectura

Video: Lumitectura

Lumitectura is a time-lapse film unlike anything we’ve seen before; filmed on a single day between 2pm and 6pm, it uses about 50 masks to create normally impossible lighting situations.

Time Lapse: Hudson Miracle

Time Lapse: Hudson Miracle

David Martin honors the other hero of the Miracle on the Hudson; this time lapse video shows the recovery of Flight 1549’s Airbus A320 from the river next to his apartment. Thanks, Colin!

One Year in 120 Seconds

One Year in 120 Seconds

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.

Time Lapse: GTA IV

Time Lapse: GTA IV

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.

Video: Cardboard Camera

Video: Cardboard Camera

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.

Time Lapse: Burning Man

Time Lapse: Burning Man

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.

Time-Lapse: ALMS Car

Time-Lapse: ALMS Car

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.

Time Lapse: HK Typhoon

Time Lapse: HK Typhoon

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.

Timescapes: Mountain Light

Timescapes: Mountain Light

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!

LEGO Cello

LEGO Cello

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.

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