A History of the Sky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2024
- This is a year-long time-lapse study of the sky. A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds. From these images, I created a mosaic of time-lapse movies, each showing a single day. The days are arranged in chronological order. My intent was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.
This video is designed to be viewed in a large format, so it's best viewed in full-screen mode at 1080p.
More information on the project site:
www.murphlab.co...
And my recent blog post:
www.murphlab.co...
The music is "Aerial" by Moby, from www.mobygratis.com (royalty-free music for independent filmmakers).
Winter in the middle when we get our rains and short days, summer on the top and bottom when we get our fog and long days, spring and fall in between when we get our sun. Excellent living chart!
Doing time lapses of the sky is easy, but the fact that you did one every day for a year AND had the idea of representing the images you captured in this grid was very interesting and beautiful. Great work!
This really blue me away. I would love to see this repeated in cities all over the world.
1:56 4th row down, 15 from left.....who's that?
It's interesting and creative. My bedroom window faces north and I live in the midwest, so all I mostly see is a lot of gray looking skies. I feel similar to the person commenting from Scotland, it gets awful depressing. You have to have an outlet or you can get caught up in it and get down in the dumps. Me, I turn all the lights on and blast some cool music for a few, that usually helps a great deal. Then I get my creativety back.
Wonderful and so interesting - watching the rain droplets on a wet day, the birds and people flash by, the different cloud formations and their speed.... I stupidly was expecting more from the sunsets and really surprised (der) that it gets dark before 9pm even in summer in SF.
It is beautiful! It would be really interesting to repeat this project on different locations on the earth. Around the equator, on the poles and other locations, and then compare those videos
The music is "Aerial" by Moby, from mobygratis (royalty-free music for independent filmmakers).
This has become one of my fav vids. I can't stop watching it, it is so amazing. What a wonderful idea, so creative. I love the sky, who doesn't? You are absolutely right tho, you must watch it at full screen, and at the highest pixel level possible.
This is so soothing.
Beautiful result and well worth the long wait.
I wonder though what it would look like with 12 rows and varying lengths of columns (for number of days in a month) and starting with January 1st. This would probably give a clear view of the varying length of the days through the seasons.
I would be curious to see what this would look like for a city like London! Beautiful project, thank you.
people went crazy on this particular day. 4th row and 15th column.
1:55 & 2:55 :P
nice work!
Very therapeutic, and nicely mixed with Moby's music... Good stuff!
The date of the first image in the top left is July 29, 2009, and the last video (lower right) is late July 2010.
@theluk Good question, but I got the answer when I saw this video on The Huffington Post. It said the 360 days as opposed to 365 days fit better to make a more pleasing effect. I guess they needed an even amount of boxes to fit together, otherwise it might be lopsided. I think its beautiful. I live in the midwest in the U.S. So over here it would look really gray! Lol!
@obeyken Definitely that would make it even more awesome than it already is. CONGRATS
I LOVE THIS!
Interesting to see how much faster the clouds are moving in the summer.
Very beautiful, and very nice music! Meditative! Thanks
What a cool idea, this is amazing stuff. I also saw it on The Huff Post. Really nice music you chose too.
the music is perfect!
This is absolutely amazing.
This would make an awesome screensaver
makes me miss summer daylight! gorgeous project :)
Beautiful.
This was amazing. Very tranquil
Simply lovely! Thanks.
Fascinating. I'm sorry this drew criticiem. They clearly don't understand how much work went into this or how difficult it is to show 200,000 minutes of video in 5 minues. Really nice project.
Well done, I absolutely love the sky and this is a great project!
great & incredible work and display of nature's show :) i still can't believe how many clear days you had during winter time. not as clear as those in summer, but still.. pretty decent for doing some observations (depending on how much LP there is around). well done! thanks for sharing ;)
So beautiful, thank you
@malibar1 it might be good to setup your bedroom computer to run this video every morning, projecting it onto the ceiling above your bed.
@hhp2k: it's facing north. lots of info on the project site (can't enter url in comments... see description)
For the next video, do something similar, except with different locations around the country (even Canada). When building the mosaic, position each tile according to its geographical location, so that we can see the flow of weather across the country.
Beautiful!
jstrummer: thanks for the link! i was not aware of that painting... it's beautiful!
If this was done in Manchester, England. The whole screen would look grey with water droplets everywhere with maybe one square blue
I think it would have looked better to have the Solstice or Equinox as the start. Other than that, VERY awesome.
Imagine if the heavily clouded days started forming letters on the screen... that'd cause some freakouts.
@jonaschau If it was Scotland, the blue boxes would be someone putting a blue board in front of the camera so as to not depress the researchers when reviewing the results ... ;P
beautiful.
Grats Ken, I've seen this posted by three friends who don't know each other... that's a lot of views already!
I assume the center is winter? So the ends are in June?
1:50, 4th row from top; 6th column, counting from the right side.
This would be cool if it was done in a place where the seasons actually change.
2:56 there's an open-air party or something
WOW! Its really beautiful!
in England in winter it can dark as soon as 4pm, in the summer it goes to as late as 9pm.. would be good place to try. then see how much blue sky you get.. not a lot probabley lol.
Sooooo cool. Thanks for posting this!
mesmerizing... thank you..
That's so effing cool!!
Not sure if anyone else is pining for this obviously omitted detail, but which bloody direction is the camera facing?!
1:57 ¡GOT HIM LOL!
It's weird thinking that on most days I was somewhere else looking up at a similar version of this.
TheGingerNerd - those are some random people hanging out on the roof of the Exploratorium watching Fleet Week
This needs to be a screensaver.
The monitors displaying the sky are a bit small to be seen in its entirety and to scale.
Great work! :D
Should be made into a looping screen saver, and if it was i'd get a computer to just stay on that screensaver, forever.
Considering that there are 560 hour videos on TH-cam.. can we get this as a single video instead of a mosaic?
What was up with the people in the shot in the top right at 1:53?
You can see the seasons.
Obeyken! VIP question, please answer: Were the cams on top of the museum low enough for someone on the roof to look into the lens?
turned it on - fell asleep. wicked
How the hell did you catch that !!
But why the shorter days in the middle, it should be summer.
was someone on the roof from 2:51 ?
i am an art student, my father is an engineer with 2 PhDs, i understood why the middle was black at the begining before he did (still banging his head against the wall LOL)
Take that in England, you'll see a lot more grey squares!
There are people at 3:05 on the 5th pic!!
We need those 5 stolen days!
dolbator: would you like me to add some explosions?
@Bumtr3s agreed, youtube sucks now for these kind of films, you should upload it to vimeo, much more professional
you missed 5.25 days ;)
but sometimes maths comes and give a big fuck-you to our clean neat boxes.
365.25 doesn't fit in a clean box :(
this video is wonderful, thankyou
Day 5: Mankind have found out about our camera for first time.
Anybody else thinking about Minesweeper, right now? :)
1:55 top right boxes?
The clouds are like Fishes in the Blue Ocean similar Sky
good idea but a poor way to deliver the video .. with all those boxes it's hard to see what it all means ...
San Francisco apparently has beautiful weather.
4D6L "somethingS" from 1 55-1 56 (at 1st look?!) SEEMS LIKE: 1 guy & 2 guys & an object. @2 22 - 2 30 4th row down 3rd from left (4D3L) multiple frames of "?" wtf in sky. I will blow UP the snapshotz & post. amazed & wondering & almost always looking... "IN THE SKY!"
hermosa
Where are the other five days? :-P
life is short
at 1:55 in cell (15,4) some guys waving hands :-)
360 ;)
Did anyone else randomly see the people walking on the roof and getting in the way? lol
1:56
We really do get a lot of fog
If this was Beijing, you wouldn't be able to see the sky.
chemtrails
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9ce to learn
there are only 360 boxes
top right at 1:54
dat daylight saving times.
why never the sun pass by?
PLEASE COME DO THIS IN MICHIGAN. HAHAHAHA
imagine watching this stoned..
aint it fantastic some peopl;el see so much ?
Looks like minecraft sky