Even if you’ve never seen them in person, we’ve all gotten glimpses of the Palace of Westminster or the Arc de Triomphe on television, in magazines or wherever. And most likely those brief encounters have even been high res. But Luke Shepard’s Nightvision takes images of famous European architecture to a whole new level.
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At this point doctored and enhanced photos are so ubiquitous that we tend to assume any photo we’re looking at has gone through some type of processing. And programs like Photoshop are always releasing new tools
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You can create some incredible footage using time-lapse photography but it’s not one a director has much control over. That’s why California hip-hop duo, G&E, melded it with stop motion photography to make this wild music video.
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With time-lapse videos often covering periods of several years or more, we’ve been trained to to assume that, translated into real time, their subject is barely moving at a snail’s pace. And this is what makes Dan Maker-Moore’s incredible, 15-second time lapse of the moon rising over Los Angeles all the more astounding—the whole thing was shot in just under half an hour. More »
With a capacity of more than 16,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) the CMA CGM Marco Polo currently reigns as the “world’s largest container ship” but it won’t for much longer. Construction of an even larger line of mega-ships—the Maersk Triple E—will soon be complete and, once launched, will dwarf every other vessel on the high seas. More »
Gizmodo reader Gavin Heffernan just finished this really beautiful day and night time lapse of Death Valley’s dunes. “Though we almost froze, we got some amazing stars, geminid meteors, star trails, planets, and even a UFO,” he says: More »
Mother Nature, you are so beautiful. One of the best things about New York City (or any east coast city, really) is seeing the seasons change. The colors, the temperature, the feel. Jamie Scott created a timelapse of Central Park by choosing 15 locations in the park and then visiting those spots 2 days a week for six months. It’s spectacular. More »
When Mike Matas and Sharon Hwang decided to go on an epic road trip from San Francisco to New York City, they thought it would be fun to make a lasting record of it. We’re glad they did, because this time lapse is enough to inspire anyone to hit the road and leave their cares behind. More »
Here’s a great use of time-lapse photography to show a side of aviation that is rarely seen. This is a procession of jumbo jets (B747, A340, B777) flying into Heathrow airport in London. Since it’s a time-lapse video, it’s sped up 17x faster than normal, and as a result you see the jets jumping in a way that doesn’t inspire confidence (although flying is actually very safe). Also, the moving clouds in the background give you a sensation of a constantly moving camera. It’s hypnotic, and I never before realized to what extent that planes line up to land. The whole video is courtesy of Cargospotter, and you can check out a GIF version after the jump. (more…)
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I’m still rather disappointed that NASA retired their Space Shuttle fleet leaving America to hitch a ride aboard foreign spacecraft to get in orbit. If you’re a fan of the Space Shuttle, you probably been following what NASA is doing with the spacecraft now that they’ve been retired. Endeavour recently took its final journey to California where will spend the remainder of its days.
The Endeavour was given to the California Science Center and made its trip there aboard its carrier aircraft, making fly-bys of several areas before arriving at Los Angeles international Airport. Once the Space Shuttle reached L.A., it made a 12-mile trek across challenging city streets to the California Science Center. Thousands of fans turned out to get a glimpse at the endeavor as a completed its historic Mission 26.
If you weren’t able to see Endeavour in person as it made its way through Los Angeles, cinematographer Matthey Givot has put together a very cool time-lapse video of the shuttle’s journey, cleverly titled Mission 26: The Big Endeavour.
I knew the Space Shuttles were big, but it really drives home how massive the spacecraft are when we see them on a typical city street.
[via CBS News]
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