A History of the Sky

[toni5317]

would have been interesting to actually see the proper footage. Maybe next time, you could avoid chopping it to pieces before you put it up. Thanks though. I guess it's for times like these people invented the expression ' It's the thought that counts'. Thanks for the thought... Shame it didn't make it to the finished article...

[obeyken]

@toni5317 thanks for the thoughtful feedback! I'll definitely do it your way next time.

[LovelliPhotos]

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.

[luuuuuciano]

We need those 5 stolen days!

[walkersam]

beautiful.

[Murmoles]

1:56 4th row down, 15 from left.....who's that?

[notubeplease]

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 ;)

[mattricks21]

Day 5: Mankind have found out about our camera for first time.

[zolikoff]

Imagine if the heavily clouded days started forming letters on the screen... that'd cause some freakouts.

[LazureusFalcone]

Considering that there are 560 hour videos on Youtube.. can we get this as a single video instead of a mosaic?

[hagamablabla]

dat daylight saving times.

[CalJorvik]

If this was Beijing, you wouldn't be able to see the sky.

[dannycalifornia45]

top right at 1:54

[santibionicle]

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)

[Samsongas]

1:57 ¡GOT HIM LOL!

[bodkie]

This needs to be a screensaver.

[byankno1new2011]

The monitors displaying the sky are a bit small to be seen in its entirety and to scale.

[alnourah]

ok



[hatpoing]

i found good day form this.why no sun and moon

[TheySaidNothing]

@hatpoing The camera was facing north, and the sun goes from east to west, so it was not facing the sun at any point during the day. The same applies to the moon, as well

[foxclown]

if this was seattle. the screen would just be a grey box

[TheHarrisonHunt]

1:50, 4th row from top; 6th column, counting from the right side.

[jmarmario1]

@TheHarrisonHunt didnt even notice that!

[goatphilososphy]

aint it fantastic some peopl;el see so much ?

[agmorlan2]

Did anyone else randomly see the people walking on the roof and getting in the way? lol

[f3989]

It's weird thinking that on most days I was somewhere else looking up at a similar version of this.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

But why the shorter days in the middle, it should be summer.

[tradingfloornews]

blue skies for everybody

[iswearenglish]

I loved this video

thank you

[answer0523]

minecraft

[roidroid]

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

[sayminn]

Looks like minecraft sky

[Amirampi]

No full moon nights?

Nice idea anyway.

[obeyken]

@hhp2k: it's facing north. lots of info on the project site (can't enter url in comments... see description)

[hhp2k]

Not sure if anyone else is pining for this obviously omitted detail, but which bloody direction is the camera facing?!

[sterlingman]

This is very cool! Awesome!

[mrcanavan]

So beautiful, thank you

[bojlahg]

at 1:55 in cell (15,4) some guys waving hands :-)

[Amirampi]

@bojlahg Superman and friends

[iperov]

life is short

[Destro7000]

Take that in England, you'll see a lot more grey squares!

[Ribovlarin]

chemtrails

down right 4 than 4 up

a lovly chemttrail

[GregOrca]

@Ribovlarin

No, they are contrails.

Just like the ones documented in a similar project from 1970

salvatorepecoraro . com/365_skies_giclee.php

[ReadSetData]

Should be made into a looping screen saver, and if it was i'd get a computer to just stay on that screensaver, forever.

[kgnwbva]

1:34 305 (15x5) 1:34 74 (3x14) 1:36 297 (14x17) 1:36 255 (12x15) 1:38 261 (13x1) 1:46 321 (16x1) 1:55 75 (3x15) 1:56 75 (3x15) 1:57 75 (3x15) 2:23 284 (14x4) ...

[mscynergie]

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.

[WeirSpirit]

@mscynergie i'm the same way... got it on a loop. I used to live in San Francisco.... Now i'm in the grey. There's no place like home....

[WeirSpirit]

I want this on my ceiling :-)

[ofarrizzle]

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.

[daryaheleen]

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

[daavid1393]

WOW! Its really beautiful! 

[Jaggi6x]

so thats where windows phone 7 comes from :D

[AleqCZ]

And now tell me, who did not seek at least a bit? :-)

[KEYSTONEFLORA]

Very beautiful, and very nice music! Meditative! Thanks

[Kristofftofferson]

Beautiful!

[mouradss]

imagine watching this stoned.. 

[obeyken]

jstrummer: thanks for the link! i was not aware of that painting... it's beautiful!

[jstrummer]

Interesting concept... but artist Salvatore Pecoraro did this first in 1971 in a work entitled 365 Skies where he painted a sky for for each day.

salvatorepecoraro(.)com/365_sk­ies.php

[cavalrycome]

Interesting to see how much faster the clouds are moving in the summer.

[djbarratt]

There are people at 3:05 on the 5th pic!!

[UnarmedP0wer]

1:56

[antofa123]

Very therapeutic, and nicely mixed with Moby's music... Good stuff!

[obeyken]

dolbator: would you like me to add some explosions?

[GemelCarlos]

@obeyken Definitely that would make it even more awesome than it already is. CONGRATS

I LOVE THIS!

[dolbator]

boring

[clauderoubillie]

hermosa

[oliomedia]

Simply lovely! Thanks.

[theluk]

Where are the other five days? :-P

[mscynergie]

@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!

[jonaschau]

if it was london, it will be a series of grey boxes, with about 4 blue ones at the top or the bottom... :P

[ShiroKage009]

@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

[Freshm3dia]

1:55 top right boxes?

[bassjackgruv]

good idea but a poor way to deliver the video .. with all those boxes it's hard to see what it all means ...

[toomanysteves]

Great work! :D

[ianmav]

Crocoduck is the greatest and create all creature ***Oh Crocoduck*c

[obeyken]

The music is "Aerial" by Moby, from mobygratis (royalty-free music for independent filmmakers).

[sproket343]

What is the song?

[omtaif]

Allah is the greatest and create all creature ،،،Oh God!!،c

[mscynergie]

What a cool idea, this is amazing stuff. I also saw it on The Huff Post. Really nice music you chose too.

[Bumtr3s]

ridiculously retarded youTube and its video pre-bufer destroying videos.. at 1080p this movie is stoping to me every 5 sec.

YOUTUBE bye bye

[speedemon155]

@Bumtr3s agreed, youtube sucks now for these kind of films, you should upload it to vimeo, much more professional

[jsmcguireIII]

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!

[ockteby]

This is absolutely amazing.

[MelDawn1]

San Francisco apparently has beautiful weather.

[muyo613]

2:50 "Get off the freaking roof you're blocking the camera!"

[diane1106]

Beautiful and hypnotic!

[BrooklynHeights1000]

I was really rooting for rectangle #348 to go blue and it did just before sunset. That was a close one!!

Music was great, too.

[yannibc]

I think it would have looked better to have the Solstice or Equinox as the start. Other than that, VERY awesome.

[Kashere99]

9ce to learn

[Leximice]

there are only 360 boxes

[epicrevolt]

6th from the right, four down at 2:50... lol

[pcgamer010]

pretty cool

[jjb251]

That's so effing cool!!

[maxelope]

the music is perfect!

[bivvyfox]

was someone on the roof from 2:51 ?

[gam0vr]

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?

[derfloyd]

This would make an awesome screensaver

[JimmyBurger]

you must have had one incredible hard drive for this

[ezcreezy]

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!

[mchance27]

That wasn't at all interesting

[nutsbutdum]

Anybody else thinking about Minesweeper, right now? :)

[Keikei06]

This was amazing. Very tranquil

[monicalups]

4 people don't like the sky

[sethdonut]

Incredible.

[oberdruide]

turned it on - fell asleep. wicked

[B19Dav3]

Did anyone else notice how the atmosphere is more agitated in the summer than the winter where clouds are barely moving?

[andy86i]

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.

[RogoJackie]

I would be curious to see what this would look like for a city like London! Beautiful project, thank you.

[jenjerx]

360 ;)

[bioknock]

The clouds are like Fishes in the Blue Ocean similar Sky

[MatthewMelvin]

This really blue me away. I would love to see this repeated in cities all over the world.

[malibar1]

screen saver? screen saver??? screen saver????!!??

[roidroid]

@malibar1 it might be good to setup your bedroom computer to run this video every morning, projecting it onto the ceiling above your bed.

[MrLionelcastelli]

why never the sun pass by?

[DawnLiljenquist]

makes me miss summer daylight! gorgeous project :)

[emilyxdaniels]

It is really sunny in san francisco. I'm so jealous :(

[Kittypirateagain]

This is so soothing.

[jingwa54]

Almost half the year in San Francisco it is foggy

[GoofballLtG]

Well done, I absolutely love the sky and this is a great project!

[obeyken]

TheGingerNerd - those are some random people hanging out on the roof of the Exploratorium watching Fleet Week

[TheGingerNerd]

What was up with the people in the shot in the top right at 1:53?

[tovanir]

We really do get a lot of fog

[Eudora55]

Amazing!

[sahminca9]

mesmerizing... thank you..

[jonfreeze]

This would be cool if it was done in a place where the seasons actually change.

[dzlutz]

@jonfreeze - Jeez; complaints, complaints! This artist puts together over 3 million individual exposures but it's not cool? Your work must be *really* incredible.

[dannyhman]

@dzlutz Seriously!

[hohlwelt]

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.

[obeyken]

The date of the first image in the top left is July 29, 2009, and the last video (lower right) is late July 2010.

[awgerber]

what date is the image in the top left?