A History of the Sky

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:
http://www.murphlab.com/ahots

And my recent blog post:
http://www.murphlab.com/2011/11/15/a-...

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

• Category

  Film & Animation

[Ken Murphy]

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

[Ken Murphy]

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

[David Moles]

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

[luuuuuciano]

We need those 5 stolen days!

[webdep51]

2:56 there's an open-air party or something

[giancoli84]

clever and beautiful!

[BadBalenax]

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?

[hozni sead]

How the hell did you catch that !!

[Martin Kaste]

Beautiful.

[BadBalenax]

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!"

[monkey505boy]

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.

[mscynergie]

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.

[Faye Kelts]

This is fascinating and beautiful. ^_^ Lovely.