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Tilt-Shift Video Makes Demolition Derby Look Even Sillier [Special Thanksgiving Eye Candy]
Gizmodo — This is one of the most amazing pieces of eye candy I've found in a long time: A demolition derby—full of monster trucks, scrap cars, and even a giant Godzilla—filmed with tilt-shift photography, then put together in a time-lapse video. The final effect is extraordinary. If you wonder how something so gigantic and destructive could look so tiny and harmless, the answer is a combination of techniques. One is the use of time-lapse, which makes you lose frames and gives motion a jerking quality that helps fooling the brain into thinking that you are watching ...

Monster truck rally tilt shift video
Boing Boing — Monster trucks look even cooler when they are miniaturized via tilt-shift videography. Metal Heart by Keith Loutit (Via Telstar Logistics) ...

Monster Truck Monday: Tilt-Shift Video
OhGizmo! — By Evan Ackerman Wait! Don’t run away! I’m not inaugurating any kind of new theme day, “Monster Truck Monday” just happens to rhyme which makes me feel mildly clever. A few weeks ago we posted a tilt-shift time-lapse video of some teeny tiny looking beach scenes, and today we’ve got a video in the same style of a monster truck rally. It was taken using a photography technique that makes big things look small, and at a high enough frame rate for the images to be stitched together to make comprehensible, if choppy, video: [ ...