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In honor of LA’s Carmageddon, Ross Ching recut his video “LA with no cars”. To create the video, Ching captured 20-30 minutes of timelapse video at a time then painstakingly removed vehicles from each frame, one frame at a time. He then stitched them all back together to create a surreal perspective of a city…

Mutiny Bikes and Joe Simon get their hands on the incredible above-earth camera tool, the remote controlled Helicam for some incredible shots at the new Austin Skatepark.

When murmurs started to circulate that Fuji was set to receive some of the biggest swells the island had seen in 20 years, Billabong organized a crew of top surfers including Dean Bowen, Scardy, Nick Vasicek, and Mikey Brennan to capitalize on the rare opportunity. The entire trip was captured in this short film. Filled…

Oh yes. That Battleship. Oscar material? Probably not. But Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard and Brooklyn Decker with Peter Berg at the helm sounds like blockbuster material to us.

On February 2, 2011, Simone Moro, Deni Urubko and Cory Richards managed to ascend one of Pakistan’s 8,000 meter peaks. In winter. Something that hasn’t been accomplished in 16 expeditions spanning the past 26 years. Richards used a small camera and filmed the entire crucible with each torment of the ascent captured veraciously. Look for…

Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win is the latest epic music video to be released off of the iconic rap trio’s new album, Hot Sauce Committee Part I. Directed by Spike Jonze and featuring musical guest Santigold, the lengthy spectacle runs 11:00 minutes long (that’s just two minutes shy of Thriller proportions), and…

Dear Space Shuttle. You will be missed. Sincerely, GP. Andrew Prince, Maggie Starbard, Marina Dominguez of NPR take a look back at the incredible video shot about, by and from the Columbia, Challenger, DIscovery, Atlantis and Endeavour’s 100 missions for NASA.

If there’s one thing we’re thankful for, it’s smart people. People far, far smarter than us who can come up with things like the Solar Sinter. The brainchild of Markus Kayser, the Solar Sinter is a project designed to explore the possibilities of desert-based manufacturing — also, to aid in sparking a conversation about what…

Not to add more to the Transformers hype machine, but one of the undeniably incredible components of Michael Bay’s films is the sound editing. It’s the unsung hero of what makes a great action movie feel like a great action movie. And that doesn’t happen with a measly stereo mic attached to Bay’s 3D cameras….

Is it a clever marketing campaign for DirecTV? Yes, but given the hilarious nature of the trailer and the fact that it involves grid iron stars Peyton and Eli Manning donning fake staches and hurling spirals of death…we still just had to share. Enjoy, and expect more of this series to develop as fall approaches….

Everything is a Remix is a fascinating video series made by New York-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson. In the series, Ferguson shares a persuasive case that connects our ephemeral notion of creativity with something far more concrete a.k.a copying. Whether you feel this posit is bollocks or not, we certainly tip our hat to Ferguson’s engaging…

Requiring months of editing and two weeks worth time-lapse stills, director André Chocron created a totally original music video for the band Cold Mailman. The simple, yet genius, premise uses lights from apartment building as massive equalizers and graphic displays. Amazing what you can do with a laptop and a couple of DSLRs.

Today’s Viewfinder comes from Lonelyleap, a team of like-minded filmmakers who focus on short-form high production value narratives — perfect for our modern-day ADD viewing habits. Their latest film trains its lens on surfing photographer and young gun Chris Burkard whose unique perspective and stunning photos have earned him international acclaim.

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A couple of years ago we showed you the Leather Head Handsome American Football. Made by craftsman Paul Cunningham, the football is a classic throwback to the all-American sport. This short film, directed by Pascal Perich of Etsy, pays proper homage to Cunningham’s meticulous work and offers a fantastic look inside the careful construction of…

Whatever your feelings on Michael Bay’s films, there’s no denying the man lives and breathes epic. Case in point. While watching 60 Minutes, Bay caught a glimpse of Precision Skydivers doing aerial stunts, called producer Steven Spielberg and said “I gotta have wingsuits in Transformers 3″. Talk about conversation starters. And just in case you…

Friday perusing. Spending more than one month hopping from Manhattan hotel to hotel shooting time lapses Josh Owens used four Canon DSLR’s to capture this incredible 3 and a half minute video culled from hours of footage. Viewfinder is a series of captivating photos and videos taken by GP, culled from the web, dug from…

To tout the whopping 200 megapixel capture capabilities of the new H4D-200MS ($45,000), Hasselblad put the uber shooter in the hands of a few prominent photographers including famous still-object shooter Jonathan Beer. One especially stunning capture is a Rolex photographed using the multi-shot feature, which merges six 50 megapixel shots into one mind-bogglingly immense 200…

Is there really anything else to say here? Pre-order here ($60). (Available Nov 8) Viewfinder is a series of captivating photos taken by the GP crew, culled from the web, dug out of our archives, or submitted by readers.

We’re chomping at the bit to see the full film for the 2011 Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, but until then we’ll settle for the trailer. Our sincerest apologies if it makes an otherwise drab Monday seem even more so. Also, spot Gear Junkie’s adventure-fatigued Stephen Regenold at 0:42. Directed and produced by Brian Leitten. More…

What does a bountiful breakfast spread look like, in the air, at 1000 frames per second? Well, this. By Bruton Stroube Studios. More behind the scenes action on their blog. Viewfinder is a series of captivating photos taken by the GP crew, culled from the web, dug out of our archives, or submitted by readers.

The 2012 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 is unquestionably a work of art, but installing one for an exhibit at Rome’s Chiostro Del Bramante Contemporary Art Museum proved to be slightly more complicated than hanging a painting. Apparently, 16th century doors were not designed to allow enough berth for today’s supercars (we can’t imagine why…) to just…

For their book Beer: A Genuine Collection of Cans ($13), authors Dan Becker and Lance Wilson painstakingly logged and photographed nearly 500 beer cans. Sourced from thirty countries the book spans obscure, forgotten, and stalwart brews. Some you’ll recognize. Some you won’t. If you’re itching to see the beer sooner than later though, 163 of…

The White House Flickr stream, has shared a poignant moment in American history capturing President Obama, Vice President Biden and members of the national security team including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Situation Room receiving an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. Powerful. Credit: Official White House…

Created as an awareness video for skydiving, Melbourne based design studio Betty Wants In captured five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett of Soul Flyers doing 3D coaching Australian skydiving athletes. Whether you’re a fly baby or not, the video is a surreal watch. Captured using a GoPro HD camera and special slow-mo…

Many downhill lovers have dreamt of whizzing through the ungroomed powder troves of the backcountry. Skiing off of an enormous cliff face while triggering an avalanche probably isn’t part of those dreams — well at least for you saner readers. That’s exactly what happened though to extreme french skiers Matthias Giraud and Stefan Laude in…

Yes, it’s another timelapse and yes we had an entirely different post ready for this edition of Viewfinder, but then a new, astonishing piece of work by the time-bending maestro Terje Sorgjerd landed on our desks. Sorgjerd, who filmed the Aurora Timelapse we brought you a couple weeks ago is back with an even more…

Cinematographer and DSLR timelapse maven Philip Bloom has captured a dramatic time lapse the Seattle Space Needle using four cameras… pointed out his hotel window. It’s a refreshing alternative to your girlfriend’s-favorite-formulaic-ABC-doctor-drama B-Roll (seriously, it’s every other shot) and set to the only good takeaway of The Happening, James Newton Howard’s dramatic score. For you…

Spending a week in -13° F temperatures in the National Parks of Kirkenes and Pas around the Russian border, landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd captured one of the biggest displays of the aurora borealis. Using a combination of time-lapse photography from his Canon 5D Mark II and what’s known as a motion control dolly Sorgjerd has…

Recipe for the perfect shot: a dash of right location, a pinch of timing, a dollop of the right gear and a heaping pile of luck. Rudi Diesel captures a stunning shot of surfer Dylan Longbottom riding a 12-foot barrel wave at 500fps. The clip, used in BBC’s documentary South Pacific (which we recently added…