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Turn On the Bright Lights

By David Topping


Sam Javanrouh—the man behind the venerable Daily Dose of Imagery, this city’s most widely-read photoblog—has always had something of a knack for creating amazing stop-motion timelapse videos. Whether it’s cars filling up an Edward and Bay parking lot or the downtown skyline (go to his archives under the heading “timelapse photography” to see more), his videos are hypnotic, beautiful, and fascinating—a chance to see the motions of the city in a new way.
Javanrouh’s most recent video was added to his site this morning, and depicts the sky over Toronto during the hours surrounding Earth Hour, 6:49 p.m. to 12:46 a.m. on the night of March 29, with each frame of the video representing 30 seconds of time passed. The streaks in the sky are made by the sea of airplanes and helicopters going over the city during the time, and stay visible because the highlights in each frame were accumulated and added to the subsequent frames rather than dropped. Let there be light, indeed.

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  • mattalexto

    Unfortunately this really shows how Earth Hour did not have a significant influence on the number of lights on in the city.
    Oh well.

  • David Topping

    Note that because of the way it was created, this shows the accumulation of lights—if one was turned on or off during the time, but was on at any moment, it stays on in the image created.

  • the goggles do nothing

    there are definitely lights turning off – watch the buildings on the left side.

  • EricSmith

    It’s clearer in the video.
    See also the traffic on the streets below, and note that it doesn’t leave permanent trails the way the aircraft do. He only applied the effect to the sky, I guess.

  • TokyoTuds

    Very interesting effects …. his other parking lot version is nice too.
    http://www.vimeo.com/601286
    Cheers,
    Tuds

  • Kevin Bracken

    Some of the streaks are satellites, too :)