Your Friday Morning Eye Candy: Timelapse Dallas, Set to the Gattaca Sound Track

Doubtful this daily video kick-off will become, like, a thing. Nevertheless, Robert Hunt's Timelapse Dallas, shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, caused a three-minute stop-down this morning and is most certainly worth your time as it fast-forwards though Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Galleria, downtown Dallas and a few other...

By Robert Wilonsky

July 23, 2010

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Doubtful this daily video kick-off will become, like, a thing. Nevertheless, Robert Hunt's Timelapse Dallas, shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, caused a three-minute stop-down this morning and is most certainly worth your time as it fast-forwards though Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Galleria, downtown Dallas and a few other stops along the way. (The music is Michael Nyman's Gattaca score -- "The Departure," specifically.) I've seen plenty homegrown iterations of Koyaanisqatsi in my day; this one moves to the top of the list.

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