When I went to Hawaii one of the coolest things I did was check out the live volcano. To this day it was one of the most awesome sights I’ve ever witnessed. Seeing a mountainside with liquid hot magma pouring out of it was enough to make Dr. Evil proud.

Well, since none of us has all night to watch lava make it’s way down a mountain, someone was kind enough to film a lava flow throughout the night and then speed it up for us. So here is a time lapse video taken on the Big Island of Hawaii for your viewing pleasure.
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Ok. People are going to think I’m obsessed with the Panama Canal pretty soon since I already featured this other video of crossing the canal.

The difference is, the previous video followed just one boat’s journey through the canal, and this video is fixed and shows tons and tons of boats actually going through the canal.

I find it mesmerizing.
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I’m assuming that most people have seen the awesome photos of sidewalk chalk drawings that have floated around the Internet for years now, but almost no one has seen a time lapse video of the creation of one of these images!

So, here is noted sidewalk artist Julian Beever creating the Aveeno Fountain of Youth chalk drawing in Union Square, NYC on 01/15/07.
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Auroras are caused by the collision of charged particles in the magnetosphere with atoms in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

These charged particles are energized to levels between 1,000 and 15,000 electron-volts and as they collide with atoms of gases in the atmosphere the atoms become energized, then emit their energy as light.

For those of us that will likely never be fortunate enough to see the Aurora Borealis in person, here is a time lapse video of one of the most extraordinary sites in nature. Wikipedia also has a fantastic entry for Auroras.
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Here is a time-lapse journey through the Panama Canal from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean on board a cruise ship. The video comes courtesy of CruiseJournals.com.

If you have Google Earth installed follow this link to open and explore the Panama Canal. If you don’t have it yet get the Google Pack. It’s free and highly entertaining.
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Most people will never make it to the mountains of Patagonia in Chile, but here is a beautiful time lapse video that shows what we’re all missing. It was taken at the Torres del Paine National Park.
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One hundred six balloons in a mass ascension at the Reno Balloon Race. Can you see where the cow jumped over the moon?
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This guy used 1,702 pennies to make this portrait of Abraham Lincoln. He spent 7 hours sorting them, then another 6 hours actually creating the image.

Luckily it’s a time lapse video so we get to see the whole thing in about 30 seconds.
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Fascinating night time time lapse photography of traffic on a busy London highway.
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This is a fascinating time lapse video of four lillies blooming. This is the kind of thing you can really only see in a video like this. Well, unless you’re like Rainman and you can sit there and stare at the flowers all day.
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Beautiful time lapse photography video spanning a few hours of the Tower Bridge in London.
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This video of London was taken over an extended period of time. I’m thinking a few days… anyway, it is awesome! It starts out a little slow, but the clouds are nice. Then when night starts check out the lights in the buildings.

The trick to keeping up with the coolness of this video is paying attention to the details. For example, did you see the cranes?
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