The movie shown here is a panoramic time-lapse video I shot at Pier 14 in San Francisco:

More about my pan-lapse movies here and here.

My time-lapse project, A History of the Sky, has been shortlisted in the “experimental” category of the 2012 Vimeo Festival and Awards. If you want to help out, please vote for my video! In fact, they allow people to vote once per day through 4/30, so vote often!

My video (viewed best at full screen):

About the Vimeo Awards:

The 2010 festival, hosted by Ze Frank:

It uses a really simple interface: you dial in the speed you want, referring to the blinking LEDs, and switch it into “go!” mode when you want it to start taking pictures. Here it is in action:

The innards:

This is another project I created for a series of print and video how-to “advertorials” I’m working on for Popular Mechanics and Radio Shack. There will be more detailed info on how to build your own when it goes to print (along with a video and detailed build instructions online).

Time-lapse shoot of Ninja painting the walls of Upper Playground’s FIFTY24SF gallery. The video will end up here.

The Exploratorium has a great series of events they put on in collaboration with Make Magazine and Pixar. They’re having another this Saturday from 10AM to 2PM, and the theme is time. I’ll have my multi-projector setup showing some of my Panoramic Time-Lapse pieces in the museum’s Tinkering Studio. (And they’ll continue to be on display for some time after the event.)

There will be a great lineup, including my friends the Evil Mad Scientists showing off some of their inventive clock projects, the retro-futurists Five Ton Crane, and lots of other great makers.

Here’s a post on Make Magazine’s blog about one of the earlier Open Makes I participated in.

Also, Wired featured one of my panoramic time-lapse movies in an online video gallery.

(Book cover photos by Lenore M. Edman, www.evilmadscientist.com)

Here’s a look at the inside, amazingly illustrated by Alexander Tarrant:

Blinkybugs sense movement, wind and vibration through there antennae, which causes their eyes to blink. It’s a very simple design using a coin-cell battery, a couple LEDs, and antennae made from guitar string, yet they have a strangely life-like quality. They’ve been a huge hit at the Maker Faire, and they’re a great way to teach kids basic ideas about electricity. Here’s one of the bugs:

Also there’s my LED Art Kit, available through MakerShed. Make your own groovy light-art with this simple kit (originally created as an Instructable):

Long exposure at Ocean Beach.

Time-lapse is a photographic technique that allows us to tune into events that normally unfold at a pace too slowly to observe directly: the movement of clouds, the rising and setting of the sun, or the incremental growth of plant life.

Whether you’re a science teacher, a parent or kid interested in photography, or someone who just wants to learn something new, time lapse is a great way to observe the world from a different vantage point.

The technique entails shooting images at regular intervals, then playing them back to create a moving image. In this sense it’s like shooting a film or video. The difference is that with traditional film and video, images are captured at the same rate they’re played back (e.g., at 24 frames per second), whereas with time-lapse, the images are captured at a much slower rate–in other words, at a much longer interval between shots. When these images are played back at typical video frame rates, it looks like fast-forwarded reality.

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