MOCpages user Julia Morley decided to build a LEGO ship in a bottle, mainly because how cool is that. She bought a $7 jug of wine (which she poured down the sink due to it supposedly being awful to drink), filled the bottom of the bottle with glass beads and floral resin in order to create a flat surface on which to work, and made some tools to aid in the ship-imprisoning process. She used LEGO design program Bricksmith to design the ship, then devised a plan to build the ship back-to-front with LEGOs that would fit into the bottle. Being fully aware of the kind of digital voyeur world in which she lives, Morley documented the process with a time-lapse video and posted it for all to see. As the beginning of the video states, the “project took a week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of very long tools.” Head on past the break to see the custom tools Morley made in order to build encase a LEGO ship in a bottle.

Terje Sorgjerd, a Norwegian photographer, obtained this footage of the Aurora Borealis in the regions of Kirkenes and Pas National Park over the course of a week, then slapped it together to make the above gorgeous time-lapse video.

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Every day during his six-month hike along the Appalachian Trail, Kevin Gallagher snapped a few photos; he has condensed them all here to provide a four-minute tour of the 2,200-mile trail.

(via TDW)

The above is a time-lapse video of the inner workings of Mount Kilauea, a Hawaiian volcano that is one of the most active in the world. The scenes were captured this year between February 15 and March 6, featuring general laval flow and volcano walls breaking off and collapsing into the fiery crater. According to the US Geological Survey, one crater in the volcano houses a lake of lava two-hundred meters deep. Reports estimate that the eruption has caused about 150 detectable earthquakes, but luckily, locals aren’t in danger. 200 meters deep of lava and 150 earthquakes add up to 350 scary things, by the way.

(via New Scientist)

This very neat (and well-soundtracked) time-lapse video packs a Russian academic vessel’s expedition to Antarctica into just under ten minutes.

Shooting from Belmar, New Jersey on the Jersey shore, Michael Black recorded this weekend’s blizzard as the snow climbed past 32 inches, then condensed the whole episode to 38 seconds of time-lapse video. The clock and umbrella in the shot make for handy, contextual blizzard-tracking.

See also: Time-lapse video of last week’s lunar eclipse.

(Gawker TV via Neighborhoodr via Alex Rainert)

Last night presented an ultra-rare treat for astronomy buffs: Not only was there a total lunar eclipse beginning at about 12:30am EST, but the eclipse coincided with the arrival of the winter solstice for the first time in 372 years.

Shooting from Gainesville, Florida, William Castleman created the above time-lapse video of last night’s eclipse, condensing the lunar action from 1:10 AM EST to 5:03 AM EST into 2 minutes.

See also: NASA’s gorgeous photo of the eclipse.

(via Gawker TV)

In this time-lapse, the family of a girl named Natalie took her picture almost every day from her birth until she was ten years old. Strung together at about 40 FPS, it makes for a fascinating time-lapse video. (Though Natalie looks a little sick of constantly having her picture taken by the end.)

(Gawker TV via MeFi)

In “Aerosol Amoeba,” artist Pahnl Whatnow put spray paint between two sheets of acetate, filmed for 144 hours, and condensed what he saw into four minutes of trippy, hypnotic color.

(via Wooster Collective)

Awesome 3-year-long time-lapse constructed of 45,000 individual photos, detailing Paris’ EDF tower being torn down and the Sequana Tower being put up in the same place.

(Laughing Squid via UFUNK)