North Atlantic Skies: Reading NATS’s 2,524-Flight Visualisation
Across a dark Atlantic map, bright lines gather into ribbons between North America and Europe. Seen together, individual flights become some...
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Video: Stories & Places to Explore
Understand NATS’s 2014 North Atlantic flight visualisation, the 2,524 journeys in its sample and why a moving traffic map needs dates and context. Revisit Victor the eagle’s 2014 Paris flight, understand the camera perspective and discover how the aerial view connects the Seine and Trocadéro.
Start with North Atlantic Skies: What NATS’s Flight Animation Shows and Victor the Eagle’s Paris Flight: The Story Behind the View.
Paris from Victor the Eagle’s Camera: The Eiffel Tower Flight
Paris looks surprisingly unfamiliar when a feathered head occupies the foreground. The river, gardens and streets are recognisable, but the ...
Slow Life by Daniel Stoupin: A Reef Revealed through Time-Lapse
A surface that looked still begins to ripple. Tentacles open, small forms shift, and a close-up reef scene suddenly seems full of activity. ...
J’adore Paris: Paul Richardson’s Time-Lapse Portrait
Paris can feel wonderfully familiar before you arrive. Then a cloud moves across the rooftops, the evening changes colour, and a view you th...
Floating over Bora Bora: Trey Ratcliff’s Lagoon Film
From above, a board on clear water looks almost suspended. Nearby, rows of overwater buildings trace neat lines across the lagoon, while a g...
Barcelona GO!: Rob Whitworth’s Flowing City Time-Lapse
In Barcelona GO! , a city visit seems to gather its own momentum. Buildings, streets and interiors connect through a flowing sequence that k...
Tokyo to San Francisco: An 83-Second Flight Time-Lapse
A band of light appears above the clouds, then spreads across the horizon. In the short flight time-lapse shared by the YouTube account psp7...
Hawaii Volcanoes: QT Luong’s Lava and Night-Sky Time-Lapse
Orange light glows against a dark landscape, while clouds and stars move through a sky that seems almost impossibly large. QT Luong’s Hawaii...
Cliff Jumping Hawaii – Proof: Landscape and Editing in a Viral Film
Blue water, steep rock and a burst of movement: a cliff-jumping film can compress the energy of a Hawaiian holiday into a few seconds. The c...
The Sydney Shark Jump Video Was Staged: The Later Disclosure
The viral video appeared to show a swimmer meeting a great white shark after a jump near Sydney. It was shared as a real close call, includi...