{"id":16659,"date":"2011-11-16T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2011-11-16T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:58:20","slug":"a-year-long-sky-journal-as-video-mosaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/11\/16\/a-year-long-sky-journal-as-video-mosaic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year-Long Sky Journal as Video Mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A motion mosaic of our ever-changing, endlessly fascinating atmosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Detail from Ken Murphy's video sky mosaic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About two years ago, Ken Murphy<\/a> set up a tripod on the roof of San Francisco’s Exploratorium<\/a> science museum and aimed his video camera at a particular patch of sky. He’s spent the two years since shooting time-lapse sequences from his makeshift observatory and has stitched them together into this wonderful visual tableau.<\/p>\n

Murphy, who is a web developer at KQED and a former artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium, says the project grew out of — well — boredom. He became restless with his experimentation with art works using LED lights. He says he was looking for more natural movement. So Murphy went dumpster-diving for parts and cobbled together a computer-controlled camera that would record the same sky segment every ten seconds, around the clock. He says it took two years of shooting to stitch together one full year of images. Eventually he found himself sorting through three million video frames for the mosaic.<\/p>\n