This week I’m going all time-lapsed again. 
I have no idea how many time-lapse videos I’ve featured on a Friday but it must be a high percentage of what I select 🙂
This one is a spectacular set of scenes showing the skies over Death Valley, this includes some footage of a pink aurora:
Via Wired
I used to love creating domino chains as a child, actually, it was only a couple of weeks when I was on the floor helping a child do just that.
In this video the domino chain reaction is taken to a whole new level:
We’ve highlighted the work of the Slow Mo Guys before on Because it’s Friday – Huge Water Balloons.
This week the guys are filming bottles of paint at 15,000 fps as they are exploded:
A number of people are having lots of fun with all of the images that are available through Google Street View.
Rather than just simply exploring places, they have taken all of this image content and put it together into animations.
This first one is called Google Street View Hyperlapse:
via Colossal
This second one uses a similar idea but formats it into more warped polargraphic viewpoint. This one is called Chemin Vert:
Via Colossal.
There are also an interactive and high quality version available over on the Chemin Vert web site.
Finally, and my personal favourite, there’s a stop motion movie made by UK filmmaker Tom Jenkins called Address is Approximate:
via Colossal
A moving story of attitude from Debra Searle who rowed across the Atlantic despite being left by her husband after a number of days. In so doing she became only the third woman to row an ocean single-handedly.
It’s also an amazing story of encouragement, having reached the end of her own motivation she started to receive text messages via her satellite phone that helped her to carry on:
This is one of those adverts that does a fabulous job of parody.
The target this time is Apple, or more specifically Apple’s Stores:
Try to imagine a party where the guests are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all of those other social networking sites. That’s what this video imagines, with some classic moments.
I particularly like the moments when Instagram gives the girl sunglasses and when Reddit closes the blind on Digg:
Try to imagine a party where the guests are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all of those other social networking sites. That’s what this video imagines, with some classic moments.
I particularly like the moments when Instagram gives the girl sunglasses and when Reddit closes the blind on Digg:
I’ve spent a number of holidays on the beaches of North Cornwall, it’s a beautiful place with amazing scenery.
There seems to be something in our nature that draws many of us to see the sand on a beach as a huge canvas waiting for us to draw, build, and form on.
Tony Plant takes sand-as-canvas to a level much higher than anything I’ve ever achieved. It’s amazing what you can achieve with a simple rake and being below the tide line it’s all temporary.
There’s another video of Tony at work in this article in The Guardian.
Are you ready for a reminder all of those Michael Jackson dance moves in LEGO.
That’s right the moonwalk pixelated in LEGO.
This one really needs the sound, it makes a world of difference.
I’ve really enjoyed the cycling antics of Danny Macaskill, but how about similar antics on a snowboard?
Who would be that mad?
Disney recently released this short story that blends together computer generated graphics and hand-drawn animation. The film is nominated for an Oscar and is a great little story.
Using a minimalist black-and-white style, the short follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute. Convinced the girl of his dreams is gone forever, he gets a second chance when he spots her in a skyscraper window across the avenue from his office. With only his heart, imagination and a stack of papers to get her attention, his efforts are no match for what the fates have in store for him.
Graham Chastney 