Time Appears to Be Lapsing
by Megan L. Wood
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Obscure reference alert! Georges Melies would be proud. Here are five of the best time-lapse videos on The Awl.
Director and cinematographer Tom Lowe slept outside with his camera for 250 nights while recording time-lapse footage of the American Southwest for his movie “TimeScapes.” He filmed an actual bear and a first nation’s person performing a nighttime tribal dance. After watching this you’ll want to spend more time outdoors at night, preferably in the desert.
When NASA isn’t sending a rocket-powered sky crane to determine whether Mars was ever habitable, they’re monitoring the urban sprawl in Las Vegas from 1972 through 2012. Because if we could make Vegas happen, we could probably make Mars happen.
Earth: Seen from ISS Expeditions 28 & 29 2011
“And when the sun crests the curve of the horizon at the end, you learn how to say ‘Holy shit this is the most totally mind-blowing thing I have ever seen in my life’ in Japanese. Or something pretty much like that.” Astronauts also make great photographers.
This video is kind of spooky and beautiful and compelling in the way “Game of Thrones” is kind of spooky and beautiful and compelling. The landscapes look like another world, but it’s just Earth. “Game of Thrones” isn’t real, you guys. Cloud nerds will geek out.
“The Electric Radiance of Los Angeles at Night”
Los Angeles hasn’t looked this pretty or appealing since the opening sequence of “The Hills.” Just substitute spoiled rich girls in their bikinis for well-lit architecture and neon point-of-view shots. And lots of headlights, obviously, because this is Los Angeles.
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