2008 in 40 seconds
p2pnet news view P2P | Awesomely Cool:- A while back someone posted a link to Eric Solheim’s page and I’d meant to make a note of the poster.
But I forgot. Sorry. 
However, Eric’s page blew me away.
A strategic advisor and project manager for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, he mounted a camera on the balconey of his flat in Oslo, Norway, and captured a sequence of the seasons, frame by frame, day by day, month by month, eventually melding them into an incredible video which would have turned Spock green with envy.
He condensed 2008 into a 40-second (below) 10mm wide angle video, and another two-minute 55mm zoomed-in version, which’ve been viewed a staggering three million times, he told p2pnet.
“I recently upgraded my camera to a brand new Canon 5D Mark II,” he said. “So I guess I’ll do some new experiments. But I don’t know exactly what. I do these things as a hobby.”
“First I used Photomatix to make HDR images of the ones I decided to use,” he says on his blog. “Mostly because the HDR effect makes the images flat so that the difference in light and shadows won`t disturb the transitions in my video.
“Then I used Photoshop to align all the images. Placing the camera manually at the same spot each time won`t give the exact same spot. So I needed some fine adjustment. Photoshop does this.
“Each time I snapped the following images, he says »»»
3 exposures @10mm (Canon EF-S 10-22 F3.5-4.5 USM)
3 exposures @17mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM)
3 exposures @55mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM)All images shot in RAW. The three exposures where: normal, +2 EV and -2 EV.
In addition to the images I decided to record some audio at the same place. Using my Canon S2 IS and my Canon HF10 I recorded simple background sounds trough 2008 as well. Not with exact connections to each image. More with a focus on getting audio from winter, spring, summer and autumn.
All together giving me a pretty decent range of material to put together some experiments.
No kidding.
Images:
10mm wide angle aligned HDR images in this flickr set.
All the images from that Flickr set in a ZIP file.
55mm zoomed in aligned HDR images in this flickr set.
All the images from that Flickr set in a ZIP file.Audio:
The audio as WAV in a ZIP fileVideo:
40 second movie, 8 mbit/s H264, 1280Ã720 25p
Two minutes movie, 8 mbit/s H264, 1280Ã720 25p
And Eric definitely believes in sharing.
His pix are available under CC license and he’s encouraging people to come up with other creative uses for them.
“Please comment [on his page] or contact me and I`ll provide you with what you want,” he says. “RAW files, video footage, more audio from the same spot etc ”
Eric told p2pnet he’s fascinated by the way is video is travelling the world online.
‘”It’s truly international because there is no dialog and most people have some kind of relationship with nature,”" he said. “I’ve found it on web sites from all around the globe.”
Add one more, Eric. 
Jon Newton – p2pnet
One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
January , 2009
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January 18th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
And by the way: We’re currently setting up a dedicated torrent-tracker at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation to follow up on this project:
http://nrkbeta.no/norwegian-broadcasting-nrk-makes-popular-series-available-drm-free-via-bittorrent/
http://nrkbeta.no/thoughts-on-bittorrent-distribution-for-a-public-broadcaster/