June 3, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Building One World Trade Center. 11 Years in 2 Minutes
Watch this amazing 11-year timelapse that shows the construction of One World Trade Center from October 2004 to Memorial Day 2015.
Watch this amazing 11-year timelapse that shows the construction of One World Trade Center from October 2004 to Memorial Day 2015.
Photographer Anand Varma captured the incredible 21 day transformation from bee egg to larvae to pupae to adult, unveiling the breathtaking timelapse as part of a recent TED Talk. Varma raised bees in his backyard — in front of a camera — to get an up close view. The project, for National Geographic, gives…
JT Singh (featured previously) is back with another amazing city tour, this time a “backwards” walking tour of Shanghai, China. By filming himself walking backwards and playing the footage in reverse it looks like everyone is walking away from Singh in this creative tour of the bustling metropolis.
Meet Pegasus. She was rescued from backyard breeders as a puppy. Her owner was told if she lived, she’d go deaf and blind, so he decided to record every day they had together in case it was her last. This is a timelapse of her growth from a puppy to an adult.
Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft). It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with…
“Skyglow” is a term used to describe the brightness of the night sky in a built-up area as a result of light pollution. In the video above, timelapse artists Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic combine timelapse astrophotography—filmed at some of the darkest skies in North America&mdas;and splice the footage with night timelapses of major…
For the first time in over 42 years, Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted on 22 April 2015, sending huge plumes of smoke and ash into the air. A second eruption occurred later that night, projecting red-hot rocks skyward as volcanic lightning lit up the skies. The entire spectacle was heavily documented by amateur and professionals…
The elevators to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center show an animated timelapse that recreates the development of New York City’s skyline, from the 1500s to today.
An incredible timelapse shows the shadow of the moon during the total solar eclipse that occurred on March 20, 2015. This is the view as seen from the stratosphere, in a plane flying along the umbral path. The plane was flying at an altitude of 14,000 meters (46,000 ft) at a speed of 950…
This is the seed of Erodium cicutarium (stork’s bill or filaree), which upon having contact with water will bore or drill itself into the ground in order for the seed to sprout. Watch closely as the seed will reverse itself several times, possibly to bury itself further in to the ground. Erodium cicutarium is…
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