A History of the Sky is a truly beautiful video created by San Francisco based musician, programmer, artist, and tinkerer Ken Murphy. It is truly beautiful way to look at the sky, something that we often take for granted even though it is above us all the time.
To create this video, Murphy installed a camera on the roof of the Exploratorium in San Francisco and spent a year documenting the sky in time-lapse photographs taken every ten seconds. Why would he do that? As he says on his blog:
From these images, I created a mosaic of time-lapse movies, each showing a single day. The days are arranged in chronological order. My intent was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.
He certainly did that, well done!
More information on the project site:
http://www.murphlab.com/ahots
His blog post on the project:
http://www.murphlab.com/2011/11/15/a-history-of-the-sky-for-one-year/
His YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/obeyken
The music is “Aerial” by Moby, from www.mobygratis.com (royalty-free music for independent filmmakers).
