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Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse

2012-01-05T22:55:33.711Z

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey.

After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I put together this time lapse video of the many amazing places I came across.

To follow the journey and learn more about each scene visit http://kienlam.net/around-the-world and www.kienlam.net

Original Music: "Places and Faces" by William Lam. Will is an extremely talented musical composer whose range is barely touched in this composition he wrote specifically for the video. He's also my little brother. Visit www.kienlam.net to download the MP3. If you want to commission William to write music, email him at MetaphysikaSounds[at]gmail[dot]com

Technical Details:

Shot with a Panasonic Lumix GF-1, 20mm f/1.7 and 14-45mm f/3.5-4.5.

Photography and Video Edited with Lightroom, After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

Music composed in Logic Pro.

Special thanks to Dan Hirons, Joey Seich and Carol Trieu for all your help, support and patience.

To all my fellow travelers whose company made each step of the way all the more memorable and unique, I want you to know that however short an appearance you made in the video, you've left an impact far greater and long-lasting than the few seconds that each city appeared in the video.

To my family, thank you for bearing with me and worrying about my health and safety with every dodgy bus ride and new country I found myself in each day.

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Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over

2011-11-14T21:08:28.347Z

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan
http://fragileoasis.org/bloggernauts/Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition
28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October,
2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around
350 km with a high ISO HD Camera developed by NHK Japan,
nicknamed the SS-HDTV camera. All credit goes to them.
I intend to upload a FullHD-version presently.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc.
All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible,
avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original
footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.

Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001
w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by Betke Edition
http://www.janjelinek.com | http://www.faitiche.de

Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

Editing: Michael König | http://www.koenigm.com

Shooting locations in order of appearance:

1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night

Thanks for the tip, Mark!

Spectacular Time Lapse Dam "Removal" Video

2011-11-07T08:28:23.057Z

October 28, 2011 — The White Salmon River in Washington state is flowing again as the nearly 100-year-old Condit Dam was disabled with explosives Wednesday. The reservoir draining took about 2 hours. Further demolition is scheduled in 2012. The event is a significant milestone for river restoration and dam removal nationwide.

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Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars

2011-05-30T18:11:17.449Z

Here is a minor edit to the excellent video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, posted at Nicolas Bustos channel. Visit http://eso.org for more about the European Southern Observatory.

The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars.

At http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/ and http://josefrancisco.org/ are more pictures from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Music: "Arcadia" available at http://incompetech.com, copyright by Kevin Macleod.

At http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ is the original video.

At http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/time-lapse-video-very-large-... see this blogged at Popular Science

For anyone interested, here's how to do the effect with the cheap version of Sony Vegas Movie Studio ($50). (Better packages offer auto-stabilizing, which would be a lot easier.) Use Tools, Video, Video Event Pan/Crop. Add two keyframes, one at the beginning, and one at the end. Choose a star that appears at both beginning and end. Align a reference point on the frame (any point of your choosing) to the star at the keyframe in the beginning and the keyframe at the end. This alone will accomplish the effect if no rotation is required. When rotation is required, first determine where the X Center and Y Center of the Rotation setting in the Pan/Crop window should appear. (If you use the scroll bar at the bottom of the Pan/Crop window to preview forward and backward you can eyeball where the center of the arc formed by the stars is.) Drag the X Center, Y Center to that point, which may or may not be within the video frame. The final step is to eyeball the rotation angle that occurs between the keyframe at the start and the keyframe at the end. If you've done all this correctly, the effect itself will handle all the angles and x/y positions between the two keyframes. If you find yourself tweaking it by adding new keyframes in the middle to try to realign stars along the way, that's the path to madness (cf. 1:07 in the video). Just get the x/y position, rotation center, and angle of rotation correct for both the first and last keyframe and it should work fine.

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ESO ALMA Antenna Time Lapse

2011-02-17T09:00:17.969Z

Time-lapse of a whole night at the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS), located at 5000 meters altitude on the Chajnantor plateau, in the II Region of Chile. As the Moon sets at the beginning of the night, three of the first ALMA antennas start tests as part of the ongoing Commissioning and Science Verification process. Because they are pointing at the same target in the sky at any moment, their movements are perfectly synchronized.

As the sky appears to rotate clockwise around the south celestial pole (roughly on the upper left edge of the video), the Milky Way goes down slowly, until it is lying almost horizontal before sunrise. The center of our galaxy becomes visible during the second half of the night as a yellowish bulge crossed by dark lanes in the center of the image, just above the antennas.

The flashes on the ground are the car lights of the guards patrolling at the AOS. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is the largest astronomical project in existence and is a truly global partnership between the scientific communities of East Asia, Europe and North America with Chile. ESO is the European partner in ALMA.

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