Some truely stunning images of good ol’ New Zealand landscapes by Beven Percival.

I need to get out of the city more often.

Almost 20 years after Baraka, Director/Cinematographer Ron Fricke is returning to cinema with Samsara and the film looks nothing short of fucking amazing.

Filmed over 5 years, 25 countries and 100 locations, Fricke’s follow up will also be devoid of dialogue, text and narrative and instead, tackle the theme of “humanity’s relationship to the eternal” purely through music and images.

Goddamn beautiful images at that.

The movie was shot entirely on 70mm film, but is set to be released via digital 4K projection, with no plans for a 70mm print; which is a damn shame and hopefully not another nail in that looming coffin for 35mm and film (stock). Mind you, I’ll be just as happy to get an actual theatrical of this awesome looking film considering a supposed ‘lack of market’ in NZ.

Anyhow, check it out (and in HD if that wasn’t obvious enough).

Using photos taken aboard the International Space Station, this time lapse video utilises a myriad of different editing techniques, frame rates, music and sound bites to create something quite special about our planet. Am also quite taken by the change up in aspect ratio from the norm.

Be sure to watch in HD full screen.

by Tomislav Safundžić

Wow…

Some smart arse of a talented man named Jeff Desom had the ingenious idea to compile all the ‘exterior’ footage from Alfred Hitchcock’s brilliant Rear Window; take full advantage of the fact that their all from the perspective of one apartment window; and digitally stitch them together to recreate the events of the movie into a time-lapse.

Awesome.

Ryuta Iida

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Watch this.

That’s all I’m really wanting to say on this one. I’ve posted some previous time lapse videos, but this one has the unique position to be shot from aboard the International Space Station using a special 4K resolution, low light camera at night and daaaamn the resulting beauty of the spinning Earth is just breathtakingly amazing.

I’d rant on and on about it, but really, just check it out for yourself (be sure to do so in HD):

Isn’t that just incredible? From the familiar sights of coastlines and lakes to the strangely foreign spread of the the city lights, to the wonderfully detailed clouds and thunderstorms; all of them floating and spinning together… hell, I get so lost in the simple beauty of it, I almost forget about the whole aurora part being in there too and that part is really amazing. Those towering red and green lights, floating high above the Earth, with the ‘tiny’ cities below and the stars as a backdrop are all so spectacularly captured in this video, to me, they illustrate a grand scale to the Earth and its relationship to the cosmos that’s really not often seen enough. Or at least, not this simple and beautiful in its execution.

Shot on a 5D mkii around Arizona, these HDR time-lapse images are straight up gorgeous.  While I love and loath the overuse these days of John Murphy’s Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor), it gets a full pass this round based on how appropriately used it is here.

I should also stress: be sure to check it out in full HD too.

Slacked a bit on the posts last week and still have to do one on 48 hours at some point soon.  Things have just been pretty busy and mental at the mo.

In the meantime…  behold this very impressive timelapse footage of the night sky, shot around the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama, Chile.  Gorgeous.

This beautifully shot time-lapse video of the Milky Way galaxy shot a top of El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain.  With it’s high altittude (3718m) and lack of moisture, the images this guy has gotten are pretty damn amazing.

A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April () and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.

Be sure to check it out.