Comments on: Timescape

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:56 +0000

What I noticed was Venus and Mercury zipping around the sun. Way too cool!

By: scibuff

scibuff — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:36:40 +0000

Orion and M31 are easy … try to spot the constellation of Dolphin!

By: Cupcakus

Cupcakus — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:12:10 +0000

Did you see the UFO’s orbiting the ball lightning in the desert? We have proof at last!

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:50:20 +0000

I assume it would be (is?) Timescapes Tom ripping off Pink Floyd if the music was not protected by copyright and performance right. And, what the heck, it’s only music.

I don’t understand what’s with the stars and specifically the Andromeda galaxy. It’s barely a naked eye object, surely you won’t pick it up by accident even in an HD camera?

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:27:03 +0000

This guy should do a remake of “Koyaanisqatsi”.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:48:54 +0000

@Richard Drumm and IVAN3MAN A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a great album, as is The Division Bell. Oh, and Wish You Were Here. And I can't forget...ah, so many good ones.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:16 +0000

Timothy from Boulder:

What if Pink Floyd grabbed Tom’s timelapse videos and freely distributed them in music videos without compensating him?

They would probably make the excuse: Err… it was “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”, man.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:25:25 +0000

@ Richard Drumm,

According to Wikipedia (click on my name), “Learning to Fly” is the second song from the original Pink Floyd album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.

By: Timescape « Pasa la vida

Timescape « Pasa la vida — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:14:46 +0000

[...] Vía Bad Astronomy [...]

By: Timothy from Boulder

Timothy from Boulder — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:23 +0000

“Nice mash-up. The sad state of our copyright laws is such that it wouldn’t be legal to freely produce and redistribute it with the song for about another 100 years.”

I’m curious. Do you feel the same way if the situation was reversed? What if Pink Floyd grabbed Tom’s timelapse videos and freely distributed them in music videos without compensating him?

By: Joe Meils

Joe Meils — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:37:15 +0000

It makes me wonder… What if an alien existed somewhere, whose timescale were shifted like this, (much the same way as a turtle) and had hyper sensative eyes, due to a shift in the available spectrum? What if they perceived the world, and the cosmos like this all the time? They would almost certainly start off with a heightened sense of their place in the grand scheme of things…

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:30:56 +0000

Not “Delicate Sound of Thunder” after all, that’s just where my iPod has it from…
Which is the original album? I should get it…

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:03:33 +0000

Terry, Terry, Terry…
[sigh]
Pink Floyd. From “Delicate Sound of Thunder” if I’m guessing right.
I’m going to have to try to make some of these some night soon!
I wonder if the NRQZ/NRAO restrictions had an effect here, I’ll have to ask Dave Finley in Socorro sometime… Digital cameras (both video & still) are problematic near radio telescopes.
:^(

By: Jack Mitcham

Jack Mitcham — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:02:14 +0000

Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd.

By: Terry Smiljanich

Terry Smiljanich — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:50:55 +0000

What’s the song? I’m not familiar with it.

By: Alex Whiteside

Alex Whiteside — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:30:16 +0000

I really love long exposures. It's easy to forget how different the world looks when you're using non-human eyes. This, for example, looks to all the world like a lightly blurry daylight shot.

By: Mark Withers

Mark Withers — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:31:53 +0000

Stunning! That is such a gorgeous video.

By: Jon Lester

Jon Lester — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:41:26 +0000

As both an artist and a fan of real science, I like this sort of thing much better than what typically ends up in most music videos. Impressionistic, informative and unpretentious

By: Jack Mitcham

Jack Mitcham — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:43:30 +0000

*sings*

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies…

By: Christina Viering

Christina Viering — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:17:58 +0000

Takes me back to my planetarium days.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:48:27 +0000

DavidHW Says:
Ron Fricke pioneered this technique (iirc) in his film “Baraka”.

Actually there are plenty of precendents. Fricke was an assistant to Godfrey Reggio on the ‘qatsi films; & even Reggio was standing on the shoulders of largely unknown cinematic giants. Dziga Vertov & Bert Haanstra didn’t need no new-fangled motion control to achieve these effects back in the 20 & 30s

Nice piece, though

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:40:49 +0000

I have just seen the greatest Internet video EVER!!! Thank you, Phil, for sharing it with us.

By: mus

mus — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:22:45 +0000

For those of you who didn’t notice, you can watch the video in HD if you go to vimeo and click HD.

By: Guy Mac

Guy Mac — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:17:53 +0000

Nice mash-up. The sad state of our copyright laws is such that it wouldn’t be legal to freely produce and redistribute it with the song for about another 100 years.

By: JVannini

JVannini — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:31:18 +0000

Oh! There is a third appearance of Andromeda in teh very beggining! at 00:11!