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Rosmarie Fiore did this series of long exposure photographs of Atari games a few years ago.
Fiore did a similar project with pinball machines…instead of photos, the ball was covered in paint and left trails on vellum. Reminds me of some of the other time merge media I collected awhile back. (via @brainpicker)
Here’s European airspace shutting down as the ashcloud from Eyjafjallajokull drifts over the continent:
The music is an inspired choice. And here’s European airspace starting back up again:
(via infosthetics)
This is a radar timelapse of the 22 major storms to hit the Northeastern United States this winter.
From the Accuweather site:
These winter storms have dropped 30-40 inches of rain (and liquid snow) in the I-95 corridor, which would normally only receive 20-25 inches over the winter.
(via infectious greed)
I’m not sure what to the call the effect in this video — timelapse stop-motion? panorama time-stitch? — but I haven’t seen its like before.
Watch the moon rise, planes land, smokestacks smoke, traffic pulse, and the sun rise.
Update: Coates posted an HD version of the same video.
Update: Here’s another NYC timelapse, this one by Dale Short. He also made a timelapse of the construction of the Cooper Union Academic Building:
This is two and a half years of construction at about 4 frames per day up until May 24, 2009.
A timelapse video of 15-days of game play in Grand Theft Auto IV. Sadly not set to the music of Philip Glass. (thx, rob)
Update: An early teaser video for GTA IV featured Philip Glass’ music as well as some timelapse footage. (thx, michael)
Timelapse video of a trip from Denver to Singapore and back again.
I made a time lapse video of a weekend trip I did to singapore by hanging a point and shoot around my neck, taking a snapshot every couple minutes/hours.
Timelapse video of the shift of the Earth’s tectonic plates from 400 million years ago to 150 million years into the future. (via kk)
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