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Tech NewsSploidWatching a Grueling 11-Hour Flight Whiz by in Four Minutes Is the Best Way to Travel
Planes are not designed for tall passengers. Even an hour-long flight can be uncomfortable when you’re twisted and contorted to fit in a seat. So watching an 11-hour flight from London to San Francisco take just four minutes in this spectacular cockpit timelapse makes me wish supersonic air travel was an everyday thing. This timelapse … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt Took Almost 10 Days to 3D-Print This Giant Millennium Falcon Model
3D printers haven’t quite ushered in a new industrial revolution, but every day it seems there’s another irrational reason why you might consider buying one. As this soothing timelapse reveals, if you’ve got the patience to wait almost ten days, you could 3D print yourself an impressive replica of the Millennium Falcon in a single … Continued
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io9Time-Lapse Footage of a Lavish Dragon Painting Is More Satisfying Than Watching Joffrey Die
To those of us who can barely stay within the lines of a coloring book, watching a painting come to life, like this incredibly detailed and menacing dragon, is akin to watching a magician perform. We don’t know how artist Chris Scalf does it, but we’re happy to sit back and be amazed as we … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidI Don’t Want to Hear About Your Iceland Trip Unless You Come Back With Footage Like This
How many arduous slideshows of your friends’ trips to Iceland have you had to sit through? Too many, right? After watching this stunning collection of timelapses that Martin Heck captured while briefly touring the country, I’m officially drawing the line and raising the bar when it comes to Icelandic vacation videos I’m willing to endure. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch This Human Inkjet Printer Create a Portrait in 300 Hours With 3 Million Hand-Drawn Dots
There are a lot of reasons to be impressed with David Bayo’s beautiful Astrée portrait created using a painstaking stipple technique. But what’s more staggering to me than hand-drawing 3 million individual dots is somehow finding enough spare time to dedicate 300 hours to a single work of art. I can’t even find the time … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatching Lake Ice Slowly Pile Up on Shore Is a Soothing Reminder That Spring Is Coming Soon
Those of us who experience the cold of winter here in North America have definitely had our fill of snow and frigid temperatures. There is beauty to be found when the thermometer drops below freezing, like the sights and sounds of lake ice cracking and piling up on the shore, but it’s mostly soothing as … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatching a Keyboard Melt Away in Acetone Is Equal Parts Disgusting and Satisfying
No matter what you do for a living, there’s a very good chance that at least some part of your job involves pecking away at a computer keyboard. That’s not going to change anytime soon, but watching a plastic keyboard melt away in a pool of acetone at least provides some cathartic satisfaction. You might … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Artist Drawing an Incredibly Detailed Mechanical Crab Is Like a Human Printer
Watching this timelapse footage of artist Steeven Salvat drawing a cutaway illustration of a mechanical crab, revealing its impossible inner workings on one side, will make you marvel at his patience and incredibly steady hand. If the art thing doesn’t work out, Salvat could easily find work as a surgeon. The illustration is one of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Two-Month Timelapse Gives You a Free Front Row Seat on a Mediterranean Cruise
Even a heavily discounted ocean cruise is still going to cost you a few hundred dollars, which is money you don’t have to spend thanks to Fran Garcia, who mounted a GoPro camera to the freighter he was working on as it sailed back and forth across the Mediterranean Sea. The round trip goes from … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Timelapse of Canada Is Proof That the Country Isn’t Always Buried in Snow
Florian Nick spent six weeks traveling over 3,400 miles across the western provinces of Canada, waking up at the crack of dawn to point his camera at sunrises, and hiking up mountains to capture awe-inspiring vistas. The result is a three-and-a-half minute short film called Alive that’s full of so much color and detail it … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch Seattle Evolve and Grow in This Epic Three-Year Timelapse Shot From the Space Needle
Most timelapses condense a few hours or days into bite-size videos that make the world appear to fly by in fast-forward. But Ricardo Martin Brualla has created an aerial timelapse of Seattle that shows the city growing and evolving over three full years—and he didn’t even have to set up a camera himself. The city … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidExplore 130 Years of National Geographic Covers in Just Two Minutes
One of the last magazines that’s still worth reading in print form, National Geographic has featured some fascinating stories over the years, but most of us likely pour through each issue to marvel at the photography. First published way back in 1888, the magazine celebrates its 130th birthday in 2018 and is kicking off the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThere’s Something Super Eerie About Watching Thunderstorms Unfold in Black and White
Looking for a good reason to justify spending thousands of dollars on a gigantic 8K TV? Look no further than storm chaser Mike Olbinski’s latest timelapse, Breathe. It’s not only the first to be edited in full, eye-slapping 8K resolution, it’s also been edited in black and white, making the brewing storms Olbinski captured feel … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Spectacular Stargazing Video Makes Me Want to Move Far Away From Big City Lights
Sure, the restaurants are great, and you’ve probably got a decent sports team to root for. But the bright lights of a big city mean that at night you can rarely see more than a few stars in the sky, and these stunning timelapses of the galaxy overhead will make you realize the spectacular show … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch the Grand Canyon Fill With Clouds in This Timelapse of a Rare Weather Phenomenon
Clouds form when warm, humid air rises into the cooler atmosphere, and all that water vapor condenses into tiny floating water droplets. But sometimes that process can be inverted, like when cold air trapped in the Grand Canyon causes it to fill with clouds as warm air passes over the massive gorge. And sometimes, that … Continued
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io9MoviesThis Incredibly Complex CG Timelapse Reveals How You’d Build a Death Star in Real Life
The idea that the Empire, or the First Order, can keep churning out Death Star after Death Star gets a little harder to swallow when you watch this CG timelapse by Benjamin and Isaac Botkin, which shows just how incredibly complex it is to build a moon, or planet-sized space station. The short film is … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidLike You Have Anything Better to Do Than Watch Someone Spend 66 Hours Assembling a Chainmail Shirt
No one’s pretending that life in the middle ages didn’t suck. There was the plague, unceasing catapult attacks, and beheading after beheading. But watching Evan Snider painstakingly make a chainmail shirt by hand once again reminds us to be extra thankful to live in this century. In addition to ten days of preparation and planning, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMy Brain Refuses to Believe These Are Clouds and Not the Ocean
Through the lens of a talented photographer, familiar scenes can be turned on their heads, fooling your eyes into seeing something completely different. In this video, it looks like Lars Leber captured the ocean as waves churned up a blanket of sea foam, but in reality it’s a long timelapse of clouds slowly rolling through … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt’s Impossible to Distinguish Night From Day in This Cleverly Layered Timelapse of New York
Your typical New York timelapse follows the city as it progresses from the sunlit day, to the twinkling windows of skyscrapers at night, and right on through until morning when the sun rises back into the sky. But filmmaker Julian Tryba throws that timeline out the window, with this bizarre timelapse of the Big Apple … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidA Drone Captured This Hypnotic Timelapse Footage by Flying in Giant Circles
Sometimes a unique camera move can produce fascinating footage without the need for special effects or weeks of post-production. For its short film, Low Earth Orbit, Visual Suspect, a Hong Kong-based video production company, simply had a camera drone fly in a giant orbit to capture dizzying aerial footage of Folegandros island in Greece. The … Continued