Gizmodo friend and amazing filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet says that calling this time-lapse video of Utah and Arizona “breathtaking” is an understatement. He adds “Holy cow”. I agree with him completely, although I’d have added “Holy Jesus-on-a-pogo-stick-Christ!”
Make sure to watch this at full screen and HD resolution with good sound.
The creator of this stunning piece is Dustin Farrell. “Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software,” he says “I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks.”
It’s not only a new way to see them. It completely blew me away.
Lee Bledsoe
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:32 AMEverytime you kids post a Vimeo vid I have to ‘Right click / Watch on vimeo’, on both my computers, in chrome. Any idea why the vid wont load for me on giz?
maddogeco
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:48 AMTry firefox it handles flash better
Lee Bledsoe
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:54 AMGold Star, works fine in the fox.
(not gunna switch, but that explains that it’s chrome’s fault and not Giz)
xx
Cam
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 6:31 PMI use Chrome man, but I don’t have the problem you are experiencing. Try a clean install of chrome and flash. BTW this IS the most amazing time-lapse I have ever seen. Stunning slow dolly effect.
Mike
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 3:37 PMViewing from Chrome, works fine. Latest version of Chrome, latest version of flash (64bit ftw!)
crazyiikimochi
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 7:32 PMindeed. I’ve never had any problems with vimeo in chrome.
Lee Bledsoe
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:19 AMHi Guys, OP here, I worked out that it was FlashBlock, I can usually click to activate flash content (YouTube etc) but with embedded Vimeo vids on Giz I have to enable temporary access for the whole page.
Thanks for your replies,
xx
Lee Bledsoe
Paul
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:56 AMWhoa…. its certainly mesmerizing! It makes me want to pack up my IT job, and take up photography :)
Matt
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:58 AMIs it odd that my eyes went watery from watching this?
That was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
Vince Cheah
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 10:54 AMLol are you high man. DOUBLE RAINBOW
Luke
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:12 PM+1
shannon Rios
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:11 PMThe music is what id it for me…it’s from something…something spacy maybe?
Tim
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:30 PMThe music is from the film Sunshine. Great piece of music.
The video is pretty damn impressive.
Marcus
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:57 PMVery similar to The Transformers score. The end of the second act stuff.
ajr
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:21 PMThe music sounded like one of the instrumentals from lord of the rings to me, or something similar. The was a truely incredibly video though, I really hope he does more and I hope they’re posted here otherwise I’ll probably miss them :)
I was so close to buying a 5D MkII earlier this year but went with the 60D instead until the MkIII comes out.
Lord Crumplebottom
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:50 PMThose night time shoots with the stars rotating are just amazing. Really drives home a few concepts.
Thanks for sharing Jesus and thanks to Vincent for delivery what has to be the most inspirational videos I’ve seen this year. Seriously.
Luke
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:13 PMyea seeing the milky way shifting like that was awe inspiring :>
Tim
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 2:14 PMIs it just me or does the bit from 2:23 look like it could be from a another planet.
That was awesome, its kinda tempting to convert that into a screen saver, but then id never get any work done.
chris
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:23 PMLove it, especially seeing the milky way like that!
Goober
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:46 PMJust as breathtaking as the arctic light http://vimeo.com/24456787
Will
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 6:00 PMEven one frame from any part of this video would be a world class photo, he too thousands of them to make a video. props.
Juman
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 8:18 PMThat was really good, but The mountain is still my favorite http://vimeo.com/22439234
FJC
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 11:28 AMPerfect music to accompany such beautiful imagery… Adagio in D minor from the Sunshine soundtrack
Ron Van Wegen
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 11:41 AMDid it ever occur to you that using the expression, “Holy Jesus-on-a-pogo-stick-Christ!” might be offensive to some of us?
BC
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 12:44 PMCare to explain why this might offend some of us?
Chipchip1971
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 8:45 PMSorry but the sequence transitions are not precisely timed with the audio track. There’s more to a good time-lapse video than just eye candy and dramatic music. Timing is the key.
Jester
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:11 PMYeah, I especially love the one you’ve made for us to enjoy. Oh wait, no, you haven’t…
Dylan Hamilton-Foster
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9:48 PMFantastic.. loved it, especially the milky way. Yes Jesus rocked on the pogo stick.
Harvey
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:44 AMCheck out a video called Undiscovered Colors by the Flashbulb. Similar concept. Great music.