Director: Iker Elorrieta. Producer: Sergio Villalba, Sam McIntosh. Camera operator: Iker Elorrieta. Music composer: Nico Casal. Surfers: Adam Melling, Julian Wilson, Kolohe Andino. Special thanks: Stab magazine, Oakley, Siam Park (Tenerife) Post producer: Iker Elorrieta. Production company: Pantoma
Timelapse montage from late 2010 through early 2011. One year in the making.
The goal was to show the duality between city and nature.
Locations include :
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Quebec city, Quebec, Canada - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Manhattan, New York, USA - Chicago, Illinois, USA
Photos from The City Limits timelapse:
Sunset from the John Hancock Observatory in Chicago, Illinois, USA - 2010
A view of Chicago's skyline at sunset from the 94th floor of the John Hancock Observatory.
A starry night in Parc national des Grands-Jardins. The light pollution at the bottom comes from Baie-Saint-Paul which is at 50 km from the park.
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretching 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Toronto's skyline at night
Here's a video interview that Dominic Boudreault did for MSNBC :
To a first approximation, most of the objects on the sky appear to move as if they were all fixed to the inside of a gigantic sphere with the Earth at its centre (the aptly named "celestial sphere"). That (apparent) movement is the result of the (very real) movement of the Earth in relation to the rest of the universe.
As we all know, the Earth rotates around its axis, towards the east, once every approximately 24 hours. The result of this movement is that the objects we see on the sky will seem to rise from the eastern horizon, move across the sky and set on the western horizon some time later. This apparent movement is actually an "orbit" around the celestial poles, parallel to the celestial equator, and this has some interesting effects. The first is that the actual path of an object across the sky will depend on your local latitude. The second effect is that, if the declination of a star is larger than 90° minus your local latitude, that star will never set. There is, of course, the opposite case: from any location but the equator, some stars will be permanently below the horizon.
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