Cool Geo-video - Steel Monsters Battle under a Desert Night Sky

Neat video from desert town of Borrego Springs, California. Dragons, Dinosaurs, Giant Scorpions, Wooly Mammoths, and much more created by steel sculptor ricardoabreceda.com Credits to

BORREGO STARDANCE from Sunchaser Pictures for his post .

 

BORREGO STARDANCE from Sunchaser Pictures on Vimeo.

Geo-Video: The Swiss Alps by Night

Brought to my attention by Holy Kaw! and Vimeo created by Alessandro Della Bella. The site link Helvetia's Dream includes a neat "play by play" of time-lapse points to look for during the fantastic night-time video journey.





A quick "cut & paste" summary:

‘Helvetia’s Dream’ takes you on a nighttime journey to some of the most beautiful spots in the Swiss Alps – from Arosa to Zermatt, including the world famous mountains Matterhorn and Eiger.

Please pay special attention to the following scenes:
@0:46 watch the persistent train of a bright meteor above Tijerflue Mountain in Arosa, December 2010, which was visible for about 20 minutes. A slow motion effect is applied for better visibility of the shooting star and its trail of ‘smoke’, which consists of ionized gas left behind as the meteor burns up in the atmosphere.
@1:14 clouds above Lake Geneva steam up the lens.
@1:36 on the very left: Climbers step into the unpredictable Eiger Nordwand.
@1:44 the Milky Way rises above the ‘Donkey’ rock on Pilatus.
@1:58 snowcats nearby cause the lighting of the summit cross on Fronalpstock Mountain. (Snowcat lights usually spoil time-lapse)
@2:21 the wind changes the reflection of Säntis Mountain in the Seealpsee.
@2:35 three settings showing orbits of stars. This is an alternative technique to display the movement of stars by sequentially adding the luminosity of each exposure. The result is basically a long exposure with a large aperture.
@2:49 the waxing new moon, not full moon, setting over Pilatus.

For the "making of" information and photo gallery check out the project website helvetiabynight.com.

Mapping the night sky - a stunning time lapse series

These are some absolutely stunning night sky compilations put together by Randy Halverson at DakotaLapse.com After watching every video on his site in "near awe", I just had to post these videos and links.



Milky Way preview from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.


These really are so visually stunning, they lead me to rethink the nature of the night sky & why we should always "look up to the heavens" for a different, perhaps more humbling, point of view.


Sub Zero - winter night time-lapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.


From his site feed:


" ... During the month of May, I shot Milky Way time-lapse in central South Dakota when I had the time, and the weather cooperated. The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was blowing 25mph +. That made it hard to get the shots I wanted. I kept most of the shots low to the ground, so the wind wouldn’t catch the setup and cause camera shake, or blow it over. I used a Stage Zero Dolly on the dolly shots and a “Milapse” mount on the panning ones.

This was all shot at night. If you see stars and it looks like daylight, it is actually moon light. 20+ second exposures make it look like daylight..."

More at the page link to Plains Milk Way

Scaling energy consumption - a video to "turn it off"

Turn it Off from Nigel Upchurch on Vimeo.


Nice example of scaling the mundane for global impact.

GPS-a-holic: A "windshield view" of 25 GPS devices

Don't try this .. in your car? If "device envy" exists, it's on this windshield.  The auto-instruction pauses at street corners are oddly serene. Enjoy.  Credit to the Map Room for bringing this to my attention.


crossroads (what to do) from Garvin Nolte on Vimeo.

Mapping Architecture: A Virtual Construction of Art & Space

Frank Lloyd Wright's FallingWater - Bear Run in Fayette Cty, PA


Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.