A really fantastic project (even if it was initially accidental) by Phillip Mendonça-Vieira: “Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com”. I find I’m most interested in the small quirks in the resulting time-lapse video, such as the wiggling text below the masthead with the date/last update and that some ads stay longer than others.
Also really nice is Phillip’s post about how the piece was compiled into a video. As someone who ends up taking a lot of stills and turning them into video (usually accomplished very slowly using Final Cut), his suggestion of ffmpeg seems an interesting one.
