The time lapse growth footage was captured over a period of two to three weeks, which is the time it takes for the leaves to grow into fearsome jaws. But maybe what's even more remarkable than the images is the sound. As the fly whimpers in futile struggle, you wish your ears could cry.

I'm not even embedding the clip here because you need to go to YouTube and watch it in HD for the full experience, and also, the embedding has been disabled by BBC's request. (So you literally need to go to YouTube and watch it in HD as well.) [YouTube]

In a town so tied into the film industry, it isn't surprising that local filmmakers would turn their cameras on the fire—showing us all just how fast a small flame can rage into something so utterly devastating. Check out Fast Company for the rest of the videos. [Fast Company and Yahoo]

Using TimeLapse, available for $2 in the App Store, along with a Gorillapod GoGo, available for $30, one iPhone user shot mountain cloud footage that's worthy of the Discovery Channel (standard def broadcast).

The quality is so good that I figured the reflection you can see in the clip revealed that the footage was phone—a mere camera aimed at a TV screen. But upon further examination, it looks to be an iPhone with the GoGo tripod mount reflecting in a window. [via BENM]

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Some specifics: The Canon was equipped with a fisheye lens (an EF 15mm f/2.8 lens) and powered with an external battery to capture all that goodness. The more interesting part is the replacement anti-alias filter the photographer, William Castleman, used: The Canon's stock AA filter blocks out certain red wavelengths to achieve a "more desirable" skin tone, but if it's replaced with a filter that lets those wavelengths in, you've got yourself a camera capable of shooting a galaxy, as seen here, even if we can't see it with the naked eye. Really, really cool stuff. [Vimeo via Crunchgear]

It may be Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly—some music, as we have shown this week, makes everything look better—but I just found it incredibly mesmerizing.

It was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II during winter and sprint 2009. You must get the 1080p video from here. [Vimeo and Timescape—Thanks Tyler for the link and Tom Kapinos for the headline]

Created by Samuel Cockedey using Canon DSLR cameras—mostly a 350d according to him—shows one of the most amazing and hi-tech cities in the world from different angles and in different times through the day. Some of sequences are so perfect and beautiful that make me want to jump into a plane and join my friend Francesca, who is now on a holiday trip there.

Instead, I'm going to watch Lost in Translation and fall in love with Scarlett Johansson once again. [Dark Roasted Blend]

The Timelapse Garden Video Camera (henceforth TGVC) is a weatherproof digital camera that'll take interval photos and combine them into a neat 1280x1024 video file presumably via some custom software. The intervals can be anywhere from every five seconds to every 24 hours, and can shoot objects as close as 20 inches away or as far as a 54-inch wide view. It comes with a removable 2GB of storage and the battery will last for up to 4 months while taking a picture per hour. It costs $159.99, which is awfully cheap considering you'll pay about the same for a half-decent point-and-shoot that'll explode upon the first morning dew. Then how will you watch your tomato crop wither and die because you counted on God to water it for you? [Hammacher Schlemmer via OhGizmo]

The eruption started around 2AM, February 2. Scary stuff. [Pink Tentacle]

Solheim snapped images out his window at regular intervals all through 2008 and recorded background sounds using a Canon S2 IS and a Canon HF10 camcorder. In the end he produced two clips—a 40 second and a two minute version illustrating the passage of time on a fixed landscape. As you can see, the results are breathtaking—especially when you click through the videos and watch them in HD quality.

The best part is that Soleheim provides detailed instructions on how he created the videos from start to finish. He even provides access to the images and files so you can create something unique of your own using his footage. [Erikso via Neatorama]

Especially deciding where to put what furniture, and what gadgets to put on what particular pieces of furniture. We ended in a mental loop for a few hours, trying to sort everything out so it would be presented perfectly, and in the end, we were satisfied. But from start to finish, it took us 15 hours to do. Which we compressed into a 45 second time lapse video which you can see above.

[Thanks to REED ANNEX and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com]

Gizmodo Gallery

Reed Annex

151 Orchard Street

New York, NY 10002

Gizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup

The reader meetup takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called The Annex (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is 152 Orchard Street and we'll be there at 9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th.

Gallery Dates:

December 4th-7th

Times:

12/4 Thursday

12-8

12/5 Friday

12-8

12/6 Saturday

11-8

12/7 Sunday

11-4

[Read more about our Gizmodo Gallery here and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.]

The folks at Bent Image Lab also used a similar effect in parts of the video for Thom Yorke's "Harrowdown Hill":

And there's even more in this recent Metafilter roundup. Can't get enough of this right now. [Keith Loutit on Vimeo via Kottke, Metafilter, Bent Image Lab]

RP Cuento sent us this time-lapse video showing how he built his 2,558-piece Lego Mac Pro, which he dubs Bricked Mac. He also told us a few more facts about this fantastic Lego computer, starting with a basic question: Does it overheat?

It doesnt really overheat too badly. If I'm running batch compressor stuff, I'll just pop open the side, which is removable.

The box took 14 hours to build. It includes a Mac Mini with a 250GB hard drive hack, with the system drive being an ESATA drive. The Hackintosh running Mac OS X, the second computer inside the box, uses:

2.4GHz Intel Q6600 Quad Core
Gigabyte ep35-ds3l motheboard
BFG NVIDIA 8800gt with 512 Mbytes
2GB of 800MHz RAM
750 and 400GB harddrives

[Thanks RP Cuenco!]

Think about this: each individual image you shoot with a digital SLR has extremely high definition compared to 1080p video. Put that camera on a tripod, pop off a few hundred frames, then edit them together and boom, you have yourself a kick-ass HD sequence of clouds floating by, the sunset, or anything else you can imagine. Neat. – Charlie White

Product Page [Visual Effects, Inc. via Oh Gizmo]