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What the Hell Is This Unidentified Flying Object?

Gizmodo reader Gavin Heffernan just finished this really beautiful day and night time lapse of Death Valley's dunes in the US. "Though we almost froze, we got some amazing stars, geminid meteors, star trails, planets, and even a UFO," he says: Read More >>

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Two Weeks, 3,000 Miles and Three Minutes of Insanely Great Video

When Mike Matas and Sharon Hwang decided to go on an epic road trip from San Francisco to New York City, they thought it would be fun to make a lasting record of it. We're glad they did, because this time lapse is enough to inspire anyone to hit the road and leave their cares behind. Read More >>

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Watch a Pig Decompose Underwater

Pork is absolutely delicious any which way you cook it, and it seems like sea lice, which are like ocean maggots apparently, would agree too. The sea lice do most of the heavy eating, before shrimp come in to finish the job. It's disturbingly exciting. Read More >>

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This Grand Canyon Time Lapse Is So Jaw Dropping That You Don’t Even Need to See It in Real Life

The Grand Canyon is one of those natural wonders you have to see in real life to truly appreciate. It's jaw droppingly gorgeous and looks like another world. Well, that's what I thought until I saw this time lapse of the Grand Canyon. Using over 80,000 photos, the video is better than an ordinary visit to Grand Canyon. After you watch this, you'd have seen it all. Read More >>

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This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City

Call it vapid, call it fake, call it soul sucking. Go ahead. Complain about the traffic, complain about the people, complain about the smog. You can say whatever you want but the fact is this: Los Angeles is so very beautiful. Don't believe me? Watch this time lapse video of LA by Colin Rich which shows you all of Los Angeles, as it moves from day to night, in all its gorgeous glory. Read More >>

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Watch This: Time Lapse Video of an Incredibly Detailed 3D-Printed Yoda

Printing this bust at .1mm layer height gives Yoda a significant increase in detail, as compared to the .2mm layer heigh model shown in a side-by-side comparison in the time-lapse video above. Read More >>

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This Stunning Time Lapse Video of the Shard Is Like a Love Story

The Shard has been a welcome addition to the London skyline, bringing in architectural brilliance over 87-storeys and rising 306m up into the air; it literally towers over several buildings that just look minute in comparison. This beautiful time lapse video showcases the final weeks of construction of the massive giant and shows us just how big it is from many angles. Read More >>

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Watch an Adorable Girl Grow from a Baby to 12 Years Old in Less Than Three Minutes

Frans Hofmeester filmed his adorable daughter Lotte every week, from when she was a baby to how old she is now (12 years old), and stitched all the videos together to make this amazing time lapse video that shows what growing up looks like. Read More >>

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This Stunning Time-Lapse Makes Dubai Look Genuinely Beautiful

Time-lapse has the ability to turn something that you wouldn’t exactly call classically beautiful into stunning, moving works of art. Dubai is one of those somethings. This gorgeous-looking time-lapse video turns something that's just a patch of sprawling urban landscape crawling out of the sand into an electric beauty reminiscent of Tron. Read More >>

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35,000 Photos Went Into This Mesmerising Insane Asylum Video

Just when you though you had seen all there is to see in the realm of abandoned mental hospital photography, a video comes along that reinvents the game. Don't worry: it's still super creepy. Read More >>

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The Entirety of Rear Window‘s Rear Window in One Glorious Time-Lapse Panorama

A lot happens in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, all of it dutifully overseen by a wheelchair-bound photographer from a single spot. But to take in absolutely everything that Jimmy Stewart's character does in the course of the film, you need to see this time lapse, which stitches together an entire panorama from that single vantage point. Read More >>

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How to do Timelapse Photography

If you've ever seen the sun come up quickly over the city in CSI, or that fox decomposing in the title credits of True Blood, you've seen timelapse in action. Here's how to do it... Read More >>

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Can Earth Look Any More Gorgeous Than This? (Answer: No)

Tom Lowe has been restlessly working on Timescapes for more than two years now. You probably already saw the first trailer of this breathtaking ultra-HD silent film. This is the latest material. A must watch. Read More >>

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Is This the Most Amazing Time Lapse Video Yet? (Spoiler: It Is)

Gizmodo friend and amazing filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet says that calling this time lapse video of Utah and Arizona "breathtaking" is an understatement. He adds "Holy cow". I agree with him completely, although I'd have added "Holy Jesus-on-a-pogo-stick-christ!" Read More >>

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I Never Expected a Bridge Demolition Would Look Like This

Don't expect a big explosion. This time lapse video shows how to demolish a video with finesse and patience, over night. Read More >>