J.R. Johnson

I enjoy stumbling across an interesting new way of looking at or interacting with the world, and realizing that a non-zero number of people are highly invested in a thing I had no idea existed. 

Exhibit A: The hyperlapse is a niche art form documenting travel via a time lapse plus camera movement, where both distance and time are compressed into one immersive experience.

Here’s an example video of a walk around Canberra, Australia’s capital city.

Journey Through Seasons: A Hypnotic Hyperlapse of the Canberra Centenary Trail

A year in the making, it follows a 145km walking track that circumnavigates Canberra, the capital of Australia.

This article from The Guardian discusses this particular project in more depth.

Canberra hyperlapse: a year walking 145km around Australia’s capital – squeezed into seven minutes

What a world.

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