I’ve done this every year on my birthday since I was a kid.
“I want to have sushi for dinner”, I had decided. With my 30th birthday quickly approaching in January, she asked me what I wanted to do for the occasion.
Many of them feature in the Magic Window timelapse screensaver for Mac.Īt the end of 2013, I’d been living with my now-wife’s family in Yorkshire, England.
MAGIC WINDOW TIMELAPSE DESKTOP LICENSE
Most of the individual clips are available for license via Getty Images, Dissolve, or directly. The music is “Intense Rocks” by Sebastian Watzinger, licensed from Audiosocket. I shot 423 clips over four years to make this, but the majority of the 67 clips ultimately used were shot in the last 12 months. Several cuts are from clips more than 24 hours long. The average clip took 1-3 hours to film and another 3-10 hours to edit. I intended to use as a pitch for work from the California Board of Tourism, but now I’m sharing it publicly. My goal was to cram all of the visually stunning things about the entire state, from coastline to mountains to deserts, from cities to wilderness and national parks, into four minutes. More important than those facts, to me, is that I was born and spent most of my life here. It contains every major climatological biome except tundra. It’s most known for movies, technology, wine, and national parks, but also grows more than a third of the vegetables consumed in the US, two-thirds of the fruits and nuts, and an unknown but presumably huge percentage of marijuana. It contains the highest summit and the lowest desert in the Continental United States (and the second-lowest point in the world), both of which are in the same county. If it was it’s own independent country (as it was briefly for a few weeks in 1846), it would have the 8th largest economy in the world by GDP. It’s almost double the size of the United Kingdom and slightly larger than Japan. California is the most populated state in the United States, and the third largest.