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Timelapse footage of wildfire north of Los Angeles, 08.30.09

Footage by Dan Blank. Music by Brian Eno.

Shot on Panasonic HS-300.

Actual length: 40 mins.
Filmed from Tarzana, CA
  • Michael Schoeneis 2 years ago
    awesome.

    in the original sense. not like a hot dog.
  • Outerpol 2 years ago
    Like 10,00 hot dogs, sir.
  • Hyperplinks 3 weeks ago
    wow! this is awesome! It's been shared on hyperplinks.com
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  • Pikasus Tv plus 2 years ago
    This is great
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  • Lou Angeli plus 2 years ago
    Absolutely incredible to see Nature's fury. She's pissed off at someone on the West Coast. Great work! Lou
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  • Cristina Cillero 2 years ago
    Smoke, fog, mist, clouds... ectoplasm emanating from Mother Nature.

    Scary, fascinating. Beautiful.
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  • Kai Schmitz 2 years ago
    i'm impressed, nice time lapse!
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  • dalas verdugo staff 2 years ago
    Really cool.
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  • Milieunet 2 years ago
    Great video, but bad for nature, people and don't forget climate. It's all CO2
  • Nicholas T 2 years ago
    watch 'the great global warming swindle' on google video.
  • Nicholas T 2 years ago
    you realize for the majority of the last 10, 000 years global temperatures have been far higher than they actually are now? Also if the current trend was caused by the big bad C02 which actually makes up less than 0.005% of all greenhouse gases, we should see significant warming in the troposphere, which hasn't happened? Perhaps its selfish to believe that we can take credit for what the earth and the sun have done pretty well for the last 10, 000 years? .. Also during the Holocene Maximum that lasted 4000 years the global temperatures were FAR higher than they are now .. The polar bears lived through that .. So did the human race?
    Climate Activists are worse than Terrorists, Don't Spread Lies, Learn the Truth.
  • Dave LaFontaine 2 years ago
    And Jesus rode around on the back of a dinosaur (aka "Jesus Horse") and smoking is good for you, and we know where the weapons of mass destruction are...

    Peddle your bogus, discredited talking points somewhere else, Astroturf Troll.
  • Jared Levy plus 2 years ago
    Your so called 'climate acitivists' are well established scientists collaborating all over the world. Leave your nonsense for the Fox News forums. No one here appreciates the trolling nonsense.
  • Dale Griner 2 years ago
    Well actually the stuff you are seeing in this video is called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. CO 2 is invisible. It is water vapor that is squeezed out of the air because it is thrust upward so fast by the heat from below. They say it actually rains inside this cloud but it never reaches the ground because of the intense heat.
  • Neil Moger 2 years ago
    Yeah - but like, duh?!! Dont you guys get it??!! Dont you hear what hear what Nicholas is saying!!?? Dont listen to those idiot scientists/climatologists and other "experts", its a conspiracy, you see theres this thing on google video...
  • Hassan Saddiq 1 year ago
    lol at this discussion.

    it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that all these cars on the road spewing co2 into the atmosphere prooobably isn't good for the environment

    the level of harm it does could be debated but the fact that it is harmful and needs to be minimized as much as possible is indisputable
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  • Abelardo Rendo 2 years ago
    I love it.
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  • Claire&Max plus 2 years ago
    Great shots!!
    But so bad for the nature...
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  • Bill Newsinger plus 2 years ago
    Mesmerizing!
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  • Gary Gingrich 2 years ago
    FANTASTIC time lapse! Powerful, in more ways than 1!
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  • Bastoon 2 years ago
    Nice but boring... :sleep:
  • and while you sleep, hopefully you can dream of something as beautiful as this.
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  • Paul Emerson 2 years ago
    Interesting how there is so much downward motion. When looking at it in real time, you assume it is all going up.
  • Paxson Woelber 2 years ago
    My thoughts exactly. That's the best thing about time lapse: watch enough and you become aware of the long movements, the motion of the long cycles, in nature.
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  • Dave LaFontaine 2 years ago
    This is oddly beautiful, in an "American Beauty" sort of way. The soot/particulates in the air are starting to remind me of the aftermath of Mt. St. Helens.
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  • Miguel Monteagudo 2 years ago
    great images, which software you use for this? im using istop motion for time lapse but this software only allow 23.3 second between one frame and the other. It´s pretty fast the result. Appreciate you answer.
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  • Josh B. 2 years ago
    Can some one help me I know the artist of the music but not the song.
    love the video also
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  • Jenny Reiswig 2 years ago
    Josh - I believe that's The Big Ship from Brian Eno's Another Green World CD.
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  • Tyler Timpe 2 years ago
    Very cool, but 2 questions. How long of a timelapse was this (1 hour condensed?) and where was it shot?
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  • NotSoOldHippy 2 years ago
    Unbelievable. It's like something out of Christianity's "Hell" mythologies -- or The Hobbit trilogy.
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  • Eric Jordan plus 2 years ago
    Certainly NOT boring. Quite engaging!
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  • Jimena Gamio 2 years ago
    beautiful
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  • Talenthouse plus 2 years ago
    Wow, that is impressive
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  • Duncan 2 years ago
    That was so beautiful
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  • Bristol Hall 2 years ago
    Simply Beautiful, but bad outcome...
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  • David Malantic 2 years ago
    Morbid situation, but a beautiful video
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  • Paul Hellard 2 years ago
    Interesting to see how the mass rises to a certain point, but when it cools, the huge weight of ash etc collapses in on itself. Another good reason not to be anywhere near the windward end of a huge fire like that. It's all in the air you breathe.
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  • Jenny Woo plus 2 years ago
    this is what I see from my backyard :(. They did a time-lapse clip for the local news, too. They called it a "pyro-cumulonimbus" smoke cloud, a term also used to refer to volcano smoke. great time lapse!
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  • Kurt Klein 2 years ago
    Bad for nature? That is chaparral that is burning. Chaparral requires periodic fire to stay healthy, much like sequoia forests.

    Before you go calling every molecule of CO2 evil, open your mind and do some homework. If you think Nicolas is incorrect, then respond with facts, not rhetoric.
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  • Mr.Cantos plus 2 years ago
    hOLY SHIT! PERFECT./
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  • David Boni 2 years ago
    Frightening and impressive. It’s very unnerving to realize how organic that looks, like a great monster breathing and frolicking about.
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  • Daniel Péger 2 years ago
    the abstract art of nature. very nice
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  • pete mills miller 2 years ago
    It takes me into another dimension, nature prevails.
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  • Mike Browne 2 years ago
    Beautiful Dan. Thank you for sharing.
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  • Kevin Miller 2 years ago
    The song is "The Big Ship" off Brian Eno's album "Another Green World." (Thank you, Shazam!)
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  • Randy Bartok 2 years ago
    I've always been a fan of time-lapse, and this one is great. The first house I ever lived in was actually at the junction of Hwy 2 and the Angeles Forest Hwy. I doubt there's much left out there.
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  • Brainiac NYC 2 years ago
    this is great.
    I'm about to post it on my blog if you dont mind
    brainiacnyc.com
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  • Ryan Brown 2 years ago
    I didn't realize how dramatic the fires were until I saw them with that song playing. I understand now...I understand now.
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  • Dillon Hall 2 years ago
    the sunsets must be stunning with all of the dust and ash in the atmosphere.
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  • Joseph Mikos 2 years ago
    amazing... one of those things where your in the right place at the right time.
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  • DELUXE 2 years ago
    Hypnotic
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  • Chilling. Good choice with the Eno.
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  • balaji 2 years ago
    i never seen before
    its
    inc readable to all
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  • Benjamin Posch 2 years ago
    is that "another green world" playing? eno's greatest era. also beautiful shots, well edited.
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  • Khoa Phan 2 years ago
    How can something so destructive yet be so beautiful in motion... Great timelapse I could not help but not to blink it was so captivating.
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  • Justin Giritlian plus 2 years ago
    beautiful
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  • jonatan damian 2 years ago
    hw something so beaiful can be so horrible at the same time
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  • Tabique Malévolo 2 years ago
    Giant Popcorn!
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  • Sandy 2 years ago
    I lived in Sunland on Oro Vista and have family in Sunland and La crescenta. I worked at JPL in the mid 70's so was very glad to see updates on the fire. Your pictures are beautiful,Dan. It's always so sad to see fire's destruction even if it's beautiful to see from afar. God Bless all of you down there in the smoke.
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  • melissa justin 2 years ago
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    yours Melissa.
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  • Joe Gjura 2 years ago
    Listen, I just watched this while playing the song "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun" By M83, starting from the begging of the song. It was amazing. Please try this.
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  • Casey Jones 2 years ago
    Even total destruction is pretty if you can find a good spot to watch from.
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  • Andie Steele-Smith plus 2 years ago
    Powerful!
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  • Eddy 2 years ago
    nice
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  • towerful 2 years ago
    absolutely amazing!
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  • Vostok Studio plus 2 years ago
    I played it to my 2 year old son and the day after he kept asking "papa, es video d'es fum" (dady, the smoke video"). Even a 2y.o. kid could see the beauty on it.
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  • dd kk 2 years ago
    this move it is arable
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  • Mouli Cohen 2 years ago
    reminds me of a suspension in liquid. maybe our atmosphere isn't a gas after all, and we don't even realize it.
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  • Sascha Henrichs 1 year ago
    giant cauliflowers....
    i wonder how a timelapse of this veggie would look like ;)
    very nice study!
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  • tonchip 1 year ago
    la kago, impresionante, awesome.!
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  • Al 1 year ago
    Congrats! I was there when it happens...
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  • Elisa Solinas plus 11 months ago
    My eyes love this <3
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  • jmpg 5 months ago
    beautiful dancing
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