Culture Buzz Cramming for that Western Civ final? Here's a video that shows the changing borders from 1000 A.D. - 2003. There! Now your studying is done and you can read BuzzFeed without feeling guilty. [Editor's Note: the video has been taken down from YouTube for a copyright claim; we're trying to find a new version for you!]
As if the city wasn't already beautiful enough, this makes it even better.
Science Buzz Does this not look like its straight out of Mass Effect, or Halo, or something that doesn't ACTUALLY EXIST? This preposterous footage is from the International Space Station.
Culture Buzz Frans Hofmeester has filmed his daughter every week from birth up up until she turned 12 years old. He finally decided to make a time lapse video out of it. Here is that (amazing) video.
Movie Buzz Jeff Desom created this amazing panoramic timelapse from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954), detailing all of the events that happened in each building in chronological order. Check it out.
Duane Keiser's time-lapsed egg painting is not what you think: rather than showing a painting's creation from white space to finished painting, Keiser begins with a painting of an egg which he gradually repaints until the egg is fully broken. It's definitely best experienced visually — so give it a watch and see for yourself.
Science Buzz And captured by the scanner in question. Filmed over five years by François Vautier.
Culture Buzz This is a portrait of a Taiwanese musician named Jay Chou created entirely out of coffee ring stains by artist Hong Yi. That's kind of a lot of cups of coffee to have to make. (via laughingsquid.com)
Culture Buzz Alan got a beer glass smashed into his face awhile back. He decided to share the before/after results of his plastic surgery with this time lapse video. (via.)
Culture Buzz Or rather, the technical terms Aspergillus fumigatus, Botrytis, Mucor, Trichoderma, and Cladosporium. However you say it, all of a sudden I really want to watch my bread expire.
Culture Buzz Tom Lowe pulls off some amazing shots in this photo project two years in the making. The release date for “TimeScapes” is TBA.
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Wonder how much gas and fast food he consumed. Brian DeFrees, 25, two month road trip turned into an homage to the variety of American culture.
Culture Buzz So that's how they do it! This is now the record holder for largest pumpkin in Connecticut history. The video was made by pumpkin owner Ken Desrosiers, who took a photo every fifteen minutes for nearly four months.
I love it when art makes me hungry. More at carvingfruits.com.
Unless I'm reading the score wrong, the YouTuber did it in 64 minutes. Impressive. (via.)
Culture Buzz This eye candy is pretty geeky. Kim Pimmel created Compressed 02 by drawing dye and ferrofluid through soap bubbles using capillary action and magnetism. (via todayandtomorrow)
If you’re gonna try this at home, be sure to use the right crayons.
A time lapse video that’s been 18 months and 10,000 photos in the making.
This incredible compilation of time-lapse footage of Los Angeles was created by Vimeo user Colin Rich. I never get tired of these - they pack all that's wonderful about an evening into an extraordinarily beautiful moment.
This is a section of a 24 hour time lapse video someone made. It's sped up to 8 times normal speed, but when he watched it back, he noticed that there was a man slowly drifting across the video “as if the wind was blowing him and nothing else.” Is he a plant? Is he a weird guy? Does anyone know what's happening here? (via viralviralvideos.com)
Culture Buzz Photographer Paul Octavious is having a love affair… with a hill. Returning to the same spot in a Chicago park to capture kite festivals, outdoor movies, sledding, and the Ghana World Cup team practicing on a foggy day. The video at the end may even be sweet enough to make you nostalgic for winter. (via pauloctavious.com)
Can’t get to a fireworks show tonight? Watch this collection of Chicago fireworks shows, courtesy of Vimeo artist Chris Pritchard.
Who knew Happy Feet was actually an animated documentary? A time-lapse video of emperor penguins shows them taking tiny steps to take turns standing in the middle of the huddle to keep warm, which, naturally looks like the penguins are doing the wave.
Youtube user Boltron shot a photo every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris. The Northern Lights section is particularly awesome.
This time-lapse video of the growth of slime mold is stupefyingly hypnotic.
Tracking time-lapse video made in Brooklyn Museum's Great Hall during the installation of reOrder, an Architectural Environment by Situ Studio. Camera moves 700 feet over 3 weeks, taking a photograph every 2 minutes, presenting 200 hours of installation work. Video by Situ Studio with Nathan Levine-Heaney and Jeffrey Blair.
Every day in 2010, Youtuber eirikso would take a picture out of his window every 30 minutes. The result: an interesting take on life passing us by.