Teehan + Lax Labs have created a new open-sourced tool in creating hyperlapse videos (videos using time-lapse techniques combined with moving camera angles) pulling the frames directly from Google Maps. What this means is that, through the T+L Labs website, it’s possible to create a custom hyperlapse of any point in the world that that […]
Hidden in the Chinese frontier of Gansu province is the Zhangye Danxia Landform, a sprawling range of brilliantly colored mountains. Eons of tectonic activity and erosion have revealed stratified layers of rock, varying wildly, and completely free of vegetation due to the aridity of the region. Check out the whole photo set here. (Photos from Mohsin A. Soomro‘s […]
Time-Lapse | Earth from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo.
This time-lapse video, taken by the crew of the International Space Station, is both incredibly humbling and awe-inspiring. The station, which orbits between 205 and 270 miles above the earth, provides the ideal vantage point to view entire continents of lights, thunderstorms and even the Aurora Borealis. You’ll never feel as small as when you’re […]
werereallydoingit.com is the inspirational (and jealousy inducing) ongoing project of former pro skateboarder Heath Kirchart and photographer Jeff Vallee who annually take on – and document – a feat that they, really, have no business doing. They are currently in the midst of rafting 225 on the Colorado river through the grand canyon, completely unguided and […]
Following our Mt. Everest Gigapixel post, is a photo that is somehow even more breathtaking – Andrew Bodrov digitally stitched together over 400 HD pictures taken by the recently landed Mars rover, Curiosity, and built an interactive spherical panoramic photo of the red planet. Go check out the 360° of martian horizon, desolate rolling red hills and […]
