'A History Of The Sky': Timelapse Shows The Sky Change Over A Year (VIDEO)

We humans love to witness change over time -- from bread rising to babies growing -- so good thing there are all these years-long timelapses that give it to us in a matter of seconds. The latest in this vein is a one-year-long time-lapse of the sky, aka "A History of the Sky." The artist, Ken Murphy, installed a camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, taking an image of the sky every 10 seconds. He let the images roll for a year (actually 360 days, he says, since "it's easier to make a nice rectangle") and compiled them all in one mosaic, with each box showing one day in the life of the sky. Murphy got his project funded on Kickstarter, with 52 pledges equaling $3,578.

So what's the takeaway here? The sky has a lot of different moods, and we like her in her purple mood best.

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Comments

[Gronkie]

11:00 AM on 11/19/2011

I found it fascinating and watched the entire thing, but I'm a weather geek. I thought it was interesting how the clouds moved in different directions on different days. some days were crystal clear, other gray all day, on some it rained, and others changed from cloudy to clear and back again. If you didn't like it, that your problem, I loved it.

[chamadea]

07:58 PM on 11/18/2011

The mosaic approach did not do the sky justice, imho.

[EmpressT]

07:45 PM on 11/18/2011

Beautiful but sedative. Would be great to watch winding down at the end of the day.

[GaelMc]

07:42 PM on 11/18/2011

I don't get it

[KenMurphy]

07:41 PM on 11/18/2011

wow... apparently some people will take any opportunity to beat the "taxpayer money" drum. i assure you all that no tax dollars were used.

[Patriot28]

07:21 PM on 11/18/2011

I thought it was interesting.

[shadow91]

06:51 PM on 11/18/2011

i was expecting to see something spectacular....

[libbyejansen]

06:28 PM on 11/18/2011

is it just me or did the last half seem like the colors were faded or washed out, I'm not talking about cloud cover either.

[djtonydee]

06:15 PM on 11/18/2011

THIS IS NOT A VERY INTERESTING VIDEO
BOOOOOOO :+{{{

[blackdragon471]

04:48 PM on 11/18/2011

how cute!

[clmail40]

04:38 PM on 11/18/2011

hmm.. the payoff really didn't justify the length of time it took to slop that thing together

[bigtop1804]

03:55 PM on 11/18/2011

What a COLOSSAL wastye of time!!!

[brachm5]

06:45 PM on 11/18/2011

And probably a lot of taxpayer money.

[Kevin Cooke]

07:16 PM on 11/18/2011

No taxpayer money was used to make this project, stupid. I know the artist and he's cooler than you are.

[Gronkie]

10:56 AM on 11/19/2011

He raised the money on Kickstarter, which means private donations covered the entire cost. You should be pleased by that, but instead you intellectually default to your shallow political understanding.

Stop thinking like a Republican and start thinking like an American.

[Rodney Davis]

03:36 PM on 11/18/2011

WHAT THE FLUCK!

[Scott Moguns]

02:46 PM on 11/18/2011

SORRY, I could not watch that for 5 minutes!!!!
it gets 1 star for the music

[katydid579]

02:56 PM on 11/18/2011

I bet you could have watched it if there was needless gratutious killing.

[bigtop1804]

04:03 PM on 11/18/2011

You madam are an idiot.

[W O L F M A N]

02:34 PM on 11/18/2011

What a neat concept. That was great. Five stars, folks. Five stars.