SF to Paris in Two Minutes

More of these time lapses at http://beepshow.com

I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse. For some reason the Vimeo version of this is more linked to: http://vimeo.com/21822029

Shot with a 5d2, a time-lapse controller, and a 16mm - 35mm, mixed with some iPhone shots. The flight path from SF to Paris goes well over greenland and the arctic circle, where you can see "northern" lights from all sides of the plane, which explains why I could shoot them facing South.

Big thanks to the folks at http://uxlondon.com for inviting me to europe to speak - if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have made the trip. The music is a modified template of "Gain" used with permission from DETUNE ltd. denkitribe http://soundcloud.com/denkitribe/gain - I created this arrangement on the Korg iMS20 iPad App, and it's my first custom score. Edits and pans in After Effects CS5 and iMovie.

The photos during take-off and landing are all computer models and totally rendered because I would never use an electronic device during times when the FAA prohibits them. I did get lucky and have a whole row to myself to setup the tripod and gear.

Thanks to my neighbors for not minding an SLR click every 2 to 30 seconds for 11 hours, and thanks to the whole Air France flight crew for being insanely friendly and allowing me to shoot. Thanks to @ztaylor for showing me the Korg iMS20 iPad App. Thanks to @jayzombie and the #nerdbird on the way to SXSW this year for helping me come up with the idea. Thanks to @somnabulent for the idea of live scoring. Thanks to you for actually reading this far. You are a champion.

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[Dom Anca]

The northern lights are freaky!

[Peter Danilov]

I love the video, but I keep coming back for the song!

[Callum rowe]

Aurora! Woo

[Agastya Santosh]

That is so awesome u get to see those thingy in the sky (don't know what they are called plz tell me

[Dora Panariti]

Excellent idea and execution! Great job! ;-) You're so lucky to witness the amazing Aurora! It's one of my lifetime dreams...

[TheJBftw]

awesome dude!

thanks for sharing. :)

[sandham]

nice to see the weather in France is rubbish.

[cathal charlton]

Name of the song ??

[Christian S]

The longest 2 mins of my life

[Math Hendricks]

LooooL. T/O and LDG captures are OF COURSE computer-models for it is forbidden to use electronic devices at that time. That´s why all takeoffs and landings are just computerized. Noone of us has ever seen a real one on film.

muahahahrrrr

[jumboJetPilot]

Ha ha! You got it man! Cheers...