Monthly Archives: May 2011

Star Time-Lapse Video From The Very Large Telescope

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As you may be aware, I’m a big fan of time-lapse star videos. They’re so beautiful and remind me just how insignificant we are in the big scheme of things.

The following one is made from a series of photographs by Stéphane Guisard and José Francisco Salgado of the European Southern Observatory that were taken at the Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.

I strongly recommend watching it in fullscreen and 720p HD.

Also here’s a little reminder that we’re the ones rotating rather than the stars (you might want to mute the bad music):

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk Visualised

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A mashup is a song created by blending two or more other songs. The more complex a mashup gets, the harder it is to distinguish the parts that are being used to create what you’re hearing.

This visualisation of the song “Definitive Daft Punk” by Cameron Adams dissects a mashup in realtime to show you how each of the 23 parts contributes to the greater whole.

A really cool usage of Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3 to show how a mashup of 23 Daft Punk songs are layered and made: http://daftpunk.themaninblue.com/