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Design

He-Man’s Battle Cat Gets Painted, Time Lapse Style

7:00AM Jason Chen | To follow up his time lapse Voltron painting, Robert Burden went for another influential cartoon of the ’80s: He-Man. See 420 hours of Battle Cat painting distilled down to three minutes.
Cameras

Five Shocking Time-Lapse Videos Of The Los Angeles Wildfire

11:00AM Sean Fallon | After 11 days, Firefighters believe they have finally made progress battling the arson fire that has ravaged 148,258 acres of Angeles National Forest. That is a herculean feat, as these frighting time-lapse videos illustrate. More »
Cameras

Time-Lapse Photography Captures Galactic Core of the Milky Way

2:20PM Dan Nosowitz | This gorgeous video is a compilation of shots taken with a Canon EOS-5D every 20 seconds over about nine hours at a star party in Fort Davis, Texas. It’s a humbling sight. More »
Games

Giant Lego Nintendo DSi Timelapse Construction Video

11:30PM Jesus Diaz | You saw Sean Kenney’s 2 metre long, 110kg blue Nintendo DSi made out of 51,324 Lego pieces. It took him 200 hours to build it, as you can see in this timelapse video. More »
Cameras

Video: Watch One Year Pass in Forty Seconds

5:45AM Sean Fallon | As if our lives don’t pass by fast enough, photographer Eirik Solheim managed to encapsulate the passage of an entire year into a 40 second HD clip using photos complied from his Canon 400D. More »
Random Stuff

Catching Up: Gizmodo Gallery Setup Timelapse Video

10:37AM Brian Lam | Hey Jason, Chris and I got into NY yesterday and haven’t really stopped moving since then. The Gizmodo Gallery has been a huge success so far, especially with Phil Torrone from Make doing free laser etchings all day for anyone who brought him a graphic and a gadget to tattoo. But setup, well, it took awhile. Especially deciding where to put what furniture, and what gadgets to put on what particular pieces of furniture. We ended in a mental loop for a few hours, trying to sort everything out so it would be presented perfectly, and in the end, we were satisfied. But from start to finish, it took us 15 hours to do. Which we compressed into a 45 second time lapse video which you can see above. More »
Design

Beautiful Voltron Painting Took an Entire Year, Captured in Time-Lapse Video

7:46PM John Herrman | San Francisco artist Robert Burden spent a year — a year — painting his man-sized Voltron pièce de résistance, “Defensor Mundi”, and caught the whole process in time-lapse. Sure, the floral theme doesn’t inspire much confidence in Voltron’s RoBeast-slaying abilities, but the music and painting are a treat. [BoingBoing via Make] More »
Cameras

Amazing Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Videos Make Lilliputians of Us All

3:45AM John Mahoney | Tilt-shift lenses sit off-centre of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the effect is matched with the surreal speed boost of many stills strung together into a time-lapse movie (here by Keith Loutit), we get the other-worldly privilege of seeing real Australian beach goers as an elaborate Playmobil scape. Or Sydney Harbour in a bath tub… More »