#timelapse

#timelapse

Watch Bioluminescent Mushrooms Grow, Glow, and FadeThis video comes across suspiciously like an art film, but it's a nature documentary. Or both, as this time-lapse adds funky music to accompany the quick life cycles of bioluminescent mushrooms. There are dozens of mushroom species that glow in the dark, somewhat like fireflies. They harness a chemical called oxyluciferin to make themselves glow. Mushrooms developed this talent because it attracts insects, which are crucial to spreading their spores around the forest. -via Boing Boing#bioluminescence #mushroom #timelapse

How Mushroom Time-Lapse Videos are FilmedHave you seen the Netflix documentary called Fantastic Fungi? Well, this particular show featured a lot of amazing time-lapse videos of different fungal species, which shows spectacular camerawork done by Louie Schwartzberg.The filmmaker has filmed footage of different fungi and will spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week, continuously taking videos. Schwartzberg’s dedication to his craft is seen through the masterpieces he has helped create, including the documentary mentioned earlier. Wired features the process that the visual artist and his team did to finish Fantastic Fungi. Check the video below!Image credit: Louie Schwartzberg/Wired #FantasticFungi #Louie Schwartzberg #TimeLapse #Photography #Netflix #Wired

Artist Sculpts Star Wars' Millennium Falcon Out of SandWatch this mesmerizing time-lapse of Italian sand artist Leonardo Ugolini sculpting a miniature Millennium Falcon out of sand.The video, first posted to TikTok (and then a longer version to YouTube), showed Ugolini carefully use a spatula to build the body of the Millennium Falcon on top of a plywood cut to the contour of the Star Wars starship. Then, he used various tools to add features such as the sensor dish and ship's surface details.Ugolini sprayed a mixture of water and glue using a nebulizer to create a transparent film that cover the spacecraft and keep its shape. This, and the use of the plywood base, allowed the artist to move the sculpture back to his studio.#LeonardoUgolini #sandsculpture #sandart #StarWars #MillenniumFalcon #Chewbacca #timelapseIn his YouTube clip, Ugolini added a cockpit diorama featuring a cutout of Chewbacca:

Time-Lapse of NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Aircraft Being ConstructedWatch the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology or QueSST being built in this amazing time-lapse that NASA has just shared.Under construction at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, NASA's new supersonic aircraft is designed to fly at the supersonic speed of 660 mph (1,062 kph) at sea level without producing the loud sonic boom that people on the ground would hear.The 58-second clip of the construction time-lapse showed how the aircraft's wing, tail assembly and fuselage or forward sections are merged. "The extensive use of features and pre-drilled, full-size fastener holes has significantly reduced the time it takes to locate and fit parts, especially mating large assemblies like this,” said David Richardson, Lockheed Martin program director in NASA's website. “It is sort of like how Legos go together. We used the laser tracker to make sure it is all aligned per the engineering specs before we permanently bolted it all together.”While the X-59 will surely turn out to be a "cool" plane, it also has an interesting purpose. NASA will fly the aircraft over several communities around the United States to gauge people's reaction to the aircraft's sonic "thump", if at all (as opposed to the loud sonic boom associated with supersonic flight). They hope to be able to reverse the ban on supersonic flight over land and thus cut future air travel time in half.#NASA #LockheedMartin #aircraft #airplane #supersonic #X59 #sonicboom #timelapseWatch the full clip below:

24 Hour Timelapse of Indoor Plants Show Just How Much They Actually MoveJust because they're in a pot doesn't mean that plants don't like to move around! This fascinating video shows a 24 hour timelapse of indoor potted calathea plants moving their leaves as if they're waving (slooowly) at you.Calatheas are also called "prayer plants" because their leaves point up at night like hands in a prayer, and unfurl or open up during the day. This movement is made possible of a small joint between its leaf and stem. This movement is called nyctinasty and while some scientists have suggested that this is crucial for survival as the movement of the leaves allow the plant to get more sunlight during the day, there's currently no clear answer as to the benefit of the night movement.Via Melora_1#plant #calathea #timelapse #indoorplant

The Avatar Tree Glows at Night with Bioluminescent MushroomAmateur mushroom enthusiast Taylor Lockwood (who was recently profiled in this fascinating NPR article) took a time-lapse video of this otherworldly glowing rainforest tree:"Somewhere in the mountains of Costa Rica, there's a tree that the locals call the Avatar Tree, which by day might look much like any other rainforest tree, but by night shows that it's covered by glowing green bioluminescent mycelium ..."#mushroom #TaylorLockwood #Avatar #GlowInTheDark #mycelium #tree #timelapseView the full video clip: