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Mezmerizing Time-Lapse Shows Off The Mysterious World of Radio Astronomy

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Day after day, observatories around the world hunt for extraterrestrial life. While many use telescopes to seek out visual-based evidence, there are still a select few that utilize radio astronomy, a subfield of astronomy that listens into the frequencies spit onto Earth from the last frontier.

Three of these radio astronomy facilities were captured by astrophotographers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan to create SKYGLOW: DISHDANCE, a mesmerizing time-lapse that not only captures mesmerizing imagery, but explores the effects and dangers of urban light pollution on our night sky.[Read More…]

DIYP Interviews Flow Motion Master Rob Whitworth

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Rob Whitworth’s latest flow motion video was released a few days ago and judging by the fact that it’s been viewed over 1.5 million times already, I think it’s fair to say that his unique style still captivates audiences.

Curious to find out more about the kind of production efforts involved in such a project and some behind-the-scenes information, we caught Rob for a few questions.

Read on to find out what gear was used, how long it took to create the project, and how this video compares to previous projects.

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Rob Whitworth Does It Again; Istanbul In Flow Motion Will Knock Your Socks Off

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Turkish Airlines just released a new video promoting Istanbul, but it won’t take you more than a few seconds to figure out who is behind it.

Rob Whitworth’s signature flow motion technique is always awesome to see and this piece of art is no exception.

If you think the headline is a bit over the top and the video doesn’t actually knock your socks off, perhaps some of the behind-the-scenes photos Rob shared with us will do the trick.

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NASA’s Thermonuclear Art Shows The Sun in 10 Wavelengths, 4K and 30 Minutes

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‘Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD’ is the latest timelapse video released by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and it lives up to its name.

Capturing the sun in 10 wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light every 12 seconds, and assigning a unique color to each wavelength, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory brings us the images required to create this mesmerizing eye candy.

According to NASA each minute of footage required about ten hours of work, so this 30-minute long video took approximately 300 hours to edit.

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How To Build a Programmable Time Lapse Motion Control Platform For $150

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Time lapse videos are incredible beasts, especially when coupled with dynamic angles and camera movement.  However, purchasing a motion control rig for creating time lapse movies is not always in everyone’s budget.  But creating one typically is!  In this detailed and uber-awesome tutorial, the geniuses at Make show us how to build a self-contained, motorized platform for panning your camera throughout a long time lapse sequence…for $150!

While the tutorial relies heavily on some technical know-how, the finished product is absolutely beautiful and functions flawlessly.

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This Footage Will Make You Wish You Lived Near a Volcano

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Every once in a while a volcano erupts and it is always a spectacular sight to see, but Martin Heck of Timestorm Films was able to create a video as magnificent as the eruption itself.

Volcano Calbuco, located in Southern Chile, erupted on April 22, 2015 for the first time in four decades and reminded us just how mind-blowingly gorgeous volcanoes can be.

Watch this 4K video and I bet you’ll be asking for a volcano-view room on your next vacation.

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In Memoriam: Official 11-Year Construction Time Lapse of One World Trade Center

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EarthCam started webcasting the activity at Ground Zero just days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and has since been capturing high resolution images for this start-to-finish time lapse of One World Trade Center being built.

According to EarthCam “Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured over the past 11 years and hand-edited for this exclusive time-lapse movie”, and over one million photos in total have been taken between the company’s commemorative World Trade Center movies.

A dedicated team has been attending to the many cameras scattered in the area for 5000 days now and also created the 10-year time lapse video below of the Memorial Museum’s construction.

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Time Lapse Mining Automatically Creates Flawless Videos from Photos Found Online

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Time lapse is possibly the best way to show change over time, be it the construction of a skyscraper or an otherwise unnoticeable change that occurs over a long period of time.

The problem with this popular technique is that it usually requires careful planning, a single photographer or a dedicated team and a decent amount of editing. However, a team of researchers from the University of Washington and Google seems to have overcome these difficulties.

The method used by the researchers takes advantage of the endless amount of photos found online, automatically detects popular subjects and edits them into seamless time lapse videos.

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Microsoft ‘Hyperlapse’ Released; Creates Time Lapses from POV Videos

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Time to get out all the first-person footage you captured with your GoPro, but never touched, as Microsoft finally released its Hyperlapse technology.

Capable of turning standard lengthy videos into smooth and stabilized time lapses, you can expect to see a significant bump in time lapse videos in the near future.

The software is available in one form or another to Windows, Windows Azure, Windows Mobile and Android users.

Microsoft seems thrilled about the release; just don’t confuse it with Instagram’s Hyperlapse app.

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