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37. Gareth Emery - Concrete Angel

by Ross Ching

1 month ago

36. Running on Empty (Revisited)

by Ross Ching

7 months ago

35. Adidas Spec Spot

by Ross Ching

7 months ago

34. The Speaker Orchestra

by Ross Ching

11 months ago

33. DTS: Behind the Scenes

by Ross Ching

11 months ago

32. 3 Minutes

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

31. I'll Try Anything Once by The Strokes

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

30. Making of I'll Try Anything Once

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

29. Making Giant Bubbles

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

28. Clara Falling into the Water

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

27. 2010 Super Harvest Moon Timelapse

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

26. Wallets

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

25. Distortions

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

24. Running on Empty

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

23. Kina Grannis - Valentine

by Ross Ching

1 year ago

22. Our Master Shot

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

21. On board the dolly

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

20. One final check to see that all DVDs are the corre…

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

19. The dolly move

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

18. Ximena Sariñana - Frente al Mar

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

17. Uncle Kracker - My Girlfriend

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

16. Black Gold "Breakdown"

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

15. Collective Soul "Welcome All Again"

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

14. World's biggest swing

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

13. Jetboating

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

12. Bungee Jumping

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

11. Jesse & Joy "Electricidad"

by Ross Ching

2 years ago

Inspired by Matt Logue's Empty LA.

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Ray Chang 1 year ago

awesome. peaceful, beautiful, yet eerie like "i am legend" eerie. haha. you must've spent a lot of time in post. props man, you've amazed again.
HDtimelapse.net 6 months ago

Just Great!
MILapse 1 year ago

That is so beautiful and totally chilling at the same time. Love the juxtaposition! Great work Ross!
ranran 1 year ago

i am in love with this
Oliver Asis 1 year ago

Awesome work Ross!
joe howarth 1 year ago

Great work. this must have been a lot of work in post. really cool!
Tyler Green 1 year ago

Absolutely awesome, great work Ross. Reminds me of the opening scene from Vanilla Sky in NYC.
Ryan Parkins 1 year ago

This is fantastic! I love the traffic lights.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Ross - This is very clever - Loved it from start to finish and I'm going to forward to all the people I know in LA who would love this world without traffic.
Ross Ching 1 year ago

Thanks! Big fan of your work by the way. I gave you a shout out on the blog post, hah.
Daniel Hayek 1 year ago

Cool, were those HDR stills?
Ross Ching 1 year ago

Nah, I didn't do HDR, but I captured in raw and brought up all the shadows in Photoshop's Camera Raw utility...so that increased the dynamic range by 2 or 3 stops.
Daniel Hayek 1 year ago

I see, good stuff.
Stephen Chiang 1 year ago

wow, were you shooting tethered with a large hard drive?
Ross Ching 1 year ago

nah, raw files aren't THAT big...however I do have a 32 gb CF card
Daniel Dragon Films 1 year ago

I am just now coming around to the virtues of shooting RAW time-lapse, tuning shadows/highlights. The first time I tried it, I filled up my 32gb card before I went back to check on the camera.
The Film Artist 1 year ago

Brilliant work Ross, the music and the images go so well together, love the opening scene, just like a dance :)
added to vimeo.com/channels/worldhd
Fx Studios 1 year ago

fantastic!
Justin Kane 1 year ago

radical nifty trick you did there! i wish my commute from silver lake to santa monica every morning could look like that... :-/
Peter Lewis 1 year ago

Beautiful work! Took me a minute to realize there were no cars.
Chris Gomez 1 year ago

WOW just WOW that just blew my mind... Beautiful video!
Quinn Miller-Bedell 1 year ago

really clever, way to take it forward. Thanks especially for the explanation
Beat Brokers 1 year ago

REALLY impressive! Beautiful video.
David Blue Garcia 1 year ago

I love the concept!
Rafael Asquith 1 year ago

Amazing, great job.
Michael Alden 1 year ago

Love it. You mentioned earlier that you like to put things out there that stand apart from the crowd and you certainly do that very well.
Miguel Sánchez 1 year ago

Awesome work.
Curtis Rhoads 1 year ago

Awesome. Just awesome.
Taylor Smith 1 year ago

Creativity at its best
Kenny Boylan 1 year ago

Fantastic
Richard Gluck 1 year ago

great time-lapse! :D definitely relate to the shots above the palms 405 pass... but wonder how you set up with the chain-link fence there.. either it was during construction a while back, or you were up on really, really tall sticks.. ?
Ross Ching 1 year ago

There actually just so happen to be a hole in the fence right next to the light post that I was able to stick my lens through and get the shot. Otherwise it would have looked like crap, hah
Lime 1 year ago

this is how it should be every sunday! I wonder how much better the world would feel?
Sean Oates 1 year ago

awesome.
Aaron Bussey 1 year ago

so amazing
ilkcan soluk 1 year ago

Absolutely awesome
Mike Schwab 1 year ago

ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3154296,00.html Yom Kippur a boon to Israli bicycle shops.
youtube.com/watch?v=WYeFjp1wkFs
ZERO cars on the road on this day of the year.
monogocoro 1 year ago

Fantastic! & Great!
I love Traffic light.
Michael Hayes 1 year ago

i spy LMU, great work Ross. It's been posted on admitwo.com
Geekiz 1 year ago

Wow !! Just amazing ! posted on my blog bit.ly/cWEKRY
RyanR 1 year ago

Gorgeous work. Do you plan on doing any other cities?
Darky 1 year ago

waw !
ooxxya 1 year ago

omg!!!thats amazing....woooo!!!nice work..
Reyoo 1 year ago

hi. i'm Reyoo ^^
nice to see you .
i'm korean so i can't English well.

i just want to say
" your home & music is very good"
Santiago Orlando 1 year ago

That's great man! Such a Beautiful atmosphere!
Congratulations!
Nounoon 1 year ago

Woww, absolutly beautiful !!
Robert Vinet 1 year ago

Cool
Antony Astremsky 1 year ago

Nice
Jesper Bröring 1 year ago

Very nice, how did you get those empty streets? Did you photoshop the pictures or something like that or did you create an 3D image from those roads?
Jesper Bröring 1 year ago

Stupid comment, should have checked your URL before.

Love the idea, the technique and the movie!
Nanonex000 1 year ago

grand, great music choice btw
guga marques 1 year ago

Wonderful the clouds motion with the shadows of the city.
Daniel Staud 1 year ago

Very cool video. Full of nice shots and great imagery.
Daisuke Takeda 1 year ago

what's the song in the video?
max_saint 1 year ago

very beautiful vid!=))))
Ellz Ramclam 1 year ago

I wish the DAMN freeway was that empty this morning. Seems like EVERYONE was on the 5 freeway heading South...

cool video :)
Calle Söderberg 1 year ago

Very very very nice! Thanks for all your work,
Immo Blaese 1 year ago

I love the way traffic lights and advertisement billboards sill work whilst the streets are devoid of any human life. Like something whipped them out just an hour before or so. Very evocative, great work.
Marvin del Cid 1 year ago

Amazing!!! WOW!!!
Chris Martin 1 year ago

wow...
awesome.

check my vid of berlin without people, its not that great but i didnt ps it ;-)

yours is definitely an amazing work!
Dan Schueller 1 year ago

That's quite tragic because it means everyone is dead. What would be fantastic is if those roads were filled with bicycle commuters.
Dario Occelli 1 year ago

really nice, great work in post. I'm a new your fan
Erik Barnes 1 year ago

It would have been a lot better if you had the shadows moving on the roads. Otherwise, they just look like still shots with a zoom move applied. Nice idea though.
Mahspk 1 year ago

Hey bro, its kinda obvious to comment here all the great work you're doing, for real. So I have to ask you something: After editing frame by frame, how do you put all together and render it in such a great quality? I'm a pseudo photographer (flickr.com/photos/emeahacheese) but I love audiovisual as well and I really love time lapses, I tried making some, I put them on Sony Vegas Pro 9 and rendered them, but the quality really sux, also Im shooting with a Nikon D40.. Some advices? I'd be really glad.

You are really an inspiration bro, for real. keep up the hard and kick ass work of yours, love from Venezuela.
DanJam Productions 1 year ago

Lovely, lovely stuff.
Ryan Commons 1 year ago

Excellent eye. Really enjoyed the use of imagination.

Ryan
Michael Schmidt 1 year ago

fantastic!
Chuck Espinoza 1 year ago

as a local to LA I was blown away. great work
Douglas Dillingham - ZombieSquid 1 year ago

Spooky and beautiful.
Robert Murray 1 year ago

great use of the best radiohead song...
Oscar Falcón Lara 1 year ago

That is something else! makes you think about what it would really be like having NO cars, or rather NO traffic... Excellent piece.
Risa Dickens 1 year ago

awesome and yes, so peaceful, i love to imagine walking roads like that, planting gardens in broken asphalt =) featured in the Time Lapse Frequency: frequency.com/video/la-without/80155
Louie Garcia 1 year ago

Do you remember that movie "What Dreams May Come" and when we die, that for each of us, we get to live out eternity in our own little version of Heaven? As an LA native and avid cyclist I think I just saw mine. It was breathtaking.
LAMAR+NIK 1 year ago

i was going to something very similar to this, good job!
Karla Ruiz-Gomez 1 year ago

Great song selection! Lovely video!
jeffrey alan miller 6 months ago

wonderful concept. your blog post on this--the need for originality and provocative concepts--amen to that!
Retner 6 months ago

wooow!!! stunning!

added to vimeo.com/pantare :]
Eskapone 6 months ago

I spotted a car at 0:53 at the red wall on the left C:
but amazing work!
Phil Schmidt 6 months ago

what a coincidence! i just thought about photographing "empty streets" today.
added to vimeo.com/channels/ilovestopmotion
Daniel 6 months ago

I never understood how these are done, there's always at least a few cars driving by...