Google Earth is full of valuable tools and others that are just a bit of fun, like the ‘Time-Lapse in Google Earth’ feature.
NASA has released a decade-long timelapse of the sun, with each second of the video representing one day.
The world’s largest superyacht was seen sailing out of Gibraltar recently, and if that’s what you’re into then you should take a look at her go.
Check out Durban from above in this 3 minute short shot over two years and compiled just for you.
You know we’re fans of the beautiul city we call home but it isn’t every day you get to enjoy footage like this. It’s enough to make you feel like a proud parent.
What we have here is your standard mind-blowing, face-melting, earth-moving prismacolor colour pencil drawing of LeBron James. Did we mention it’ll blow your mind? It’ll blow your mind. Check some of artist Heather Rooney’s other work below. [Source : Mashable]
As the full moon drifted across the night sky in Cape Town this weekend, it drew amateur hikers from all over the city to take on Lion’s Head – the tamest of all the City Bowl hikes.
Joel Schat created this radical timelapse highlighting the locations of Walter White’s gradual journey from high school chemistry teacher to New Mexico’s meth kingpin. All the major filming locations are represented, from the White house, to Los Pollos Hermanos, to Saul Goodman’s office.
The salvage operation of the wrecked cruise liner, Costa Concordia was initially set to take between 10 and 12 hours. By the early hours of this morning, the operation had stretched to 19 hours before the vessel was finally righted by South African salvage master, Nick Sloane and his crew. Check out the terrific time lapse of the operation, after the jump
As pretty as this three minute video is, it was shot in the name of science, and not art. That’s all well and good, but the majority of you should be entirely concerned with the incredible footage of hundreds of glowing snails escaping through a garden.
It has almost been a year since NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet. The WALL-E lookalike landed on Mars on 6 August last year, and since then has been drilling into the martian planet, collecting soil samples and taking some of the best selfies in the universe.
The FORD-class carriers are being built in America and this signals the next generation of aircraft carriers. The USS Gerald R. Ford has a total cost of $14 billion. The 25 storey high carrier is over 350 metres long and 76 metres wide.
Doctorate candidates, Daniel Aharoni and Zhiping Chen from the University of California are responsible for making this possible when they developed the Spinpod. You can easily and comfortably create panoramic pictures or time-lapse videos.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been poodling around on the surface of Mars for over nine months now, poking in the dirt and sending back pictures of its shadow and/or penises that it drew in the sand. You can thank a humanoid, then, for recovering some of Curiosity’s dignity with this excellent time lapse
Strandwolf Productions, comprised of local brotherhood duo Rory and Riordan Allen recorded an epic time lapse of AfrikaBurn, from the installation to the burning of the works of art. Check it out.
Atlantic Fog Time-lapse from Eric Nathan on Vimeo.
Photographer Eric Nathan captured the fog rolling in over Cape Town on Sunday evening, and the results are glorious. Check out the amazing time lapse video, after the jump
Very few people are privileged enough to travel the world and even fewer can say they’ve set foot on all seven continents. Thankfully we have been blessed with photographers like Sean F. White, who has not only accomplished both, but chose to record the journey and share it via an amazing time-lapse recording. Click through for a magnificent six-minute trip around the world.
Ease back into the remainder of the week with this gorgeous time lapse video shot from the ISS in low orbit over earth. Bask in the beauty of our planet from a point of view that preciously few of us will ever get to experience in real life.
For centuries, people have been looking up at the night sky, admiring beautiful constellations and pondering the meaning of things greater than themselves. As beautiful as the view is, this video shows what things look like from the other side, and it’s pretty amazing.
The National September 11 Memorial is due to open in two weeks, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The memorial has been under construction for the past seven years; click through for a time-lapse condensation of the construction process. Go on, make your day a little more poignant.