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-history-of-the-sky-for-one-year/

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

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• time-lapse
• sky
• weather
• clouds
• fog
• San Francisco
• Exploratorium

[obeyken]

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

[obeyken]

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

[obeyken]

dolbator: would you like me to add some explosions?

[Murmoles]

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

[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.

[ofnumbers]

This is how immortal, stationary insects see things.

[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.

[fayeelizibeth]

This is fascinating and beautiful. ^_^ Lovely.

[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.

[ShiroKage009]

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