Anyone who’s ever been to Tokyo or even seen pictures of it is aware it’s a glimmering metropolis of flashing lights and illuminated billboards. However, with the loss of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the recent earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese have had to minimize their power usage with obvious consequences to Tokyo’s night time cityscape. Darwinfish105 (Japanese), who had a featured video of a Gundam Mecha on this site a couple of months ago, was fortunate enough to capture several night time-lapses of Tokyo before and after the disasters. The difference is immediately obvious and captured in great detail.

[via myfox9.com]

I haven’t posted to the blog for a while, so here’s a short video to break the streak.

I made this at my work to show the kids how I use a still camera for time lapse videos. It shows I-5 in northern California during the late afternoon.

I should have a new tutorial up next week.

This is the first video I made using CHDK. The camera was set on Program with a one second exposure. The shots were taken six seconds apart. In retrospect, I should have used the full manual mode in order to stay consistent between shots. The only real advantage of using an automatic mode is in changing light conditions such as sunrises and sunsets. This was also one of my first videos to feature sound.