New Project "Island in the Sky" nearly finished...

Good news…

Totally excited to say, that I am nearly finished with the final version of "Island in the Sky", a project that took about 1-1/2 years to finish. This will be one cool Short Movie.



Showed the precut to some friends recently, to alert me for flaws or the like. Mike Simmons of Astronomers Without Borders called it "7 minutes of time-lapse goodness."

Alright. Will go live this friday or saturday.

Cheers
Chris

The ISS TRONized - Star Trails from the International Space Station

I am a huge fan of all things Space, SciFi and ISS, and there are some really really great time lapses out there made from the already astonishing ISS footage…. But when recently friend Babak Tafreshi from Twanight.org and me processed some timelapse star trail images with StarStax for another project, it made "click"… Hey, give that tool into the hands of a Timelapse freak like me - booooom.

So I was in space mood last night after watching Felix Baumgartner's stratosphere jump. Outside, raindrops hammered against the windows, so I grabbed me some RedBull as well as my earplugs and finally stacked my way trough 1 TB Thunderbolt RAID packed ISS time-lapse footage.

Staring 10 hours into the screens I was more and more amazed about the Star Trails emerging from the ISS footage. With three machines rendering at the same time it was quite a journey to see which footage would work stacked, and which not. At some point I felt a bit like Jeff Bridges fighting against the mighty mainframe in TRON. So I was TRONized!!!

In so far, the result is quite psychedelic, and as Dude Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomer points out very nicely (in yet another reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey): "Oh my god, it's full of startrails!"

ISS Startrails - TRONized from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.

Here's a list of some of the sites that have featured the video! Wuup!!!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/time-lapse-star-trails/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57533736-10391705/international-space-station-footage-as-an-art-form/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/16/my-god-its-full-of-star-trails/
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/mental-health-break-11.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/christopher-malin-iss-stacks-space-station-video_n_1987998.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57533736-10391705/international-space-station-footage-as-an-art-form/
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/video/2012/10/17/une-video-caleidoscopique-de-la-terre-prise-depuis-l-espace_1776864_1650684.html
http://diyphotography.net/incredible-time-lapse-created-by-staking-images-from-the-iss
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/10/video-iss-start.html
http://gizmodo.com/5952421/stunning-iss-time+lapse-shows-thunderstorms-from-space
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/16/stacked-star-trail-time-lapse-created-with-photos-shot-from-space/
http://www.universetoday.com/98019/video-space-station-reaches-warp-speed/
http://io9.com/5952155/holy-moley-this-guy-just-turned-earths-atmosphere-into-tron
http://nikonrumors.com/2012/10/21/weekly-nikon-news-flash-185.aspx/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3511250/watch-this-international-space-station-thunderstrorm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/17/star_trails_video_watch_incredible_video_of_star_trials_in_motion_video.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/10/18/iss-startrails/
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-16/news/34505369_1_time-lapse-video-international-space-station-images
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/feel-like-youre-flying-at-warp-speed-watch-this-video-of-stacked-up-space-photos/#.UH8Kxnsj_NQ.twitter

Cheers

Astronomer's Paradise on NatGeo, Discovery Channel with over 220.000 plays on Vimeo

I am happy to announce, that the new TimeLapse Video "Astronomer's Paradise", a joint venture project with good friend and Lennart Nilson Prizeholder Babak Tafreshi of Twanight.org has been featured on National Geograpic News as well as on Discovery Channel and other news sites. It has also aired with Discovery Channel Canada, at a news flash. Within weeks the Video has now reached more than 500.000 plays on Babak's and my Vimeo Page from 150 countries. There is also a Making-of with further details on the project, I did for Nikon Rumors, the biggest Nikon Fan Site in the world.

Astronomer's Paradise from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.

Thanks to you all for making this Shortfilm a global success and also thanks so much for all the positive feedback! This keeps us going for Part II and III of this beautiful project.

With best regards,
Christoph Malin

New Astronomic TimeLapse Video "Black Hole Sun" reviewed on National Geographic

My TimeLapse Video "Black Hole Sun", filmed in Tyrol and on the Canary Island La Palma, is on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!!!

Black Hole Sun - Astronomic Mountain Landscape TimeLapse from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.

Victoria Jaggard of National Geographic Online did an awesome rewiew of the video - many many thanks!

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/26/new-mountain-timelapse-a-soundgarden-of-night-lights/

Enjoy!