The reductionist magic of time lapse never fails to entrance. Blu is an Italian street artist who’s broadened his environmental portraiture into an unfolding narrative of motion and whimsy. To put it another way, he’s make time-lapse videos of his paintings and they’re rad. Check out this collaboration with David Ellis, called Combo. I won’t tell you anything about it, except that you’ll be blown away by this animation.

Some folks will dig the music and sound effects, but I think they’re overdone and suggest watching it first without sound.

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Want more on time lapse videos?

Check out the very, very cool stop-action promo for Olympus’s EP-1.

Or the smoke/clouds billowing above the recent California wildfires.

Or the tilt-shift time lapses that look fake but aren’t.

Want to make your own? See a tutorial here.

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