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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

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Michael Schoeneis 3 months ago

awesome.

in the original sense. not like a hot dog.
Outerpol 3 months ago

Like 10,00 hot dogs, sir.
Pikasus Tv 3 months ago

This is great
Lou Angeli 3 months ago

Absolutely incredible to see Nature's fury. She's pissed off at someone on the West Coast. Great work! Lou
Cristina Cillero 3 months ago

Smoke, fog, mist, clouds... ectoplasm emanating from Mother Nature.

Scary, fascinating. Beautiful.
Kai Schmitz 3 months ago

i'm impressed, nice time lapse!
dalas verdugo 3 months ago

Really cool.
Milieunet 3 months ago

Great video, but bad for nature, people and don't forget climate. It's all CO2
Nicholas Temos 3 months ago

watch 'the great global warming swindle' on google video.
Nicholas Temos 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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...
Abelardo Rendo 3 months ago

I love it.
Maxime 3 months ago

Great shots!!
But so bad for the nature...
Bill 3 months ago

Mesmerizing!
Gary Gingrich 3 months ago

FANTASTIC time lapse! Powerful, in more ways than 1!
Bastoon 3 months ago

Nice but boring... :sleep:
LAMA 3 months ago

and while you sleep, hopefully you can dream of something as beautiful as this.
Paul Emerson 3 months 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 7 hours 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.
Dave LaFontaine 3 months 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.
Miguel Monteagudo 3 months 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.
Josh B. 3 months ago

Can some one help me I know the artist of the music but not the song.
love the video also
Jenny Reiswig 3 months ago

Josh - I believe that's The Big Ship from Brian Eno's Another Green World CD.
Tyler Timpe 3 months ago

Very cool, but 2 questions. How long of a timelapse was this (1 hour condensed?) and where was it shot?
NotSoOldHippy 3 months ago

Unbelievable. It's like something out of Christianity's "Hell" mythologies -- or The Hobbit trilogy.
Eric Jordan 3 months ago

Certainly NOT boring. Quite engaging!
Jimena Gamio 3 months ago

beautiful
Talenthouse 3 months ago

Wow, that is impressive
Duncan 3 months ago

That was so beautiful
Bristol Hall 3 months ago

Simply Beautiful, but bad outcome...
David Malantic 3 months ago

Morbid situation, but a beautiful video
Paul Hellard 3 months 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.
Jenny Woo 3 months 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!
Kurt Klein 3 months 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.
jor.G3/cantos 3 months ago

hOLY SHIT! PERFECT./
David Boni 3 months ago

Frightening and impressive. It’s very unnerving to realize how organic that looks, like a great monster breathing and frolicking about.
Daniel Péger 3 months ago

the abstract art of nature. very nice
pete mills miller 3 months ago

It takes me into another dimension, nature prevails.
Mike Browne 3 months ago

Beautiful Dan. Thank you for sharing.
Kevin Miller 3 months ago

The song is "The Big Ship" off Brian Eno's album "Another Green World." (Thank you, Shazam!)
Randy Bartok 3 months 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.
Mitchell Jean 3 months ago

this is great.
I'm about to post it on my blog if you dont mind
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Ryan Brown 3 months ago

I didn't realize how dramatic the fires were until I saw them with that song playing. I understand now...I understand now.
Dillon Hall 3 months ago

the sunsets must be stunning with all of the dust and ash in the atmosphere.
Joseph Mikos 3 months ago

amazing... one of those things where your in the right place at the right time.
DELUXE 3 months ago

Hypnotic
Christopher Leinonen 3 months ago

Chilling. Good choice with the Eno.
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balaji 3 months ago

i never seen before
its
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Benjamin Posch 3 months ago

is that "another green world" playing? eno's greatest era. also beautiful shots, well edited.
Khoa Phan 3 months 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.
Justin Giritlian 3 months ago

beautiful
jonatan damian 3 months ago

hw something so beaiful can be so horrible at the same time
marco martinez 3 months ago

Giant Popcorn!
Sandy 3 months 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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Joe Gjura 3 months 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.
Casey Jones 3 months ago

Even total destruction is pretty if you can find a good spot to watch from.
Andrew Andie Steele-Smith 2 months ago

Powerful!
Edmond Thaqi 2 months ago

nice
towerful 2 months ago

absolutely amazing!
Cosmonauta 2 months 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.
dd kk 2 months ago

this move it is arable
Mouli Cohen 1 month ago

reminds me of a suspension in liquid. maybe our atmosphere isn't a gas after all, and we don't even realize it.